So if you've been keeping up with my YouTube channel, you'll see that I've mentioned my next video would be something I haven't touched in a LONG time. I wasn't kidding, now was I? :)
I had a really odd goal with this video. Like...really odd. I wanted to make a Tommy/Kim video, 100% cotton candy and bunnies, with NO use of Zeo/Turbo movie footage, no outside footage with Amy Jo or Jason Frank, and no mention or use of 'the letter' or the breakup. I wanted fluff. Pure, uncensored, fluff.
I think it's safe to say that I got it :)
I also wanted to show a much softer side to vidding. Lately, fandoms have felt they need crazy flashes and fast editing to please the eyes. While I'm all for a high-tense video, like my Life in Spandex work, I also think back to the basics is needed. Showing emotion can be twice as hard as fumbling with effects and layers. It took me 3 weeks just to edit this video, trying to match the right clips at the right time and show the right emotion.
Why Tommy and Kim?:
I had realized two things that lead me to making this video. The first was that I didn't have one single Tommy/Kim music video on my account (Sundials being a video, but not a music video.) Now, this isn't my first Tommy/Kim video. Oh no, far from it. When I first started vidding here, I had an insane, crazy amount of requests for said couple. Within 6 months I had dried myself out of any desire to even look at those two. Then I had to delete all those videos when YouTube starting removing my work like it was a candy to snack on. So it's not that I don't like the two. In fact, I love them. They're the picture-perfect Power Ranger couple. They were one of the very few REAL couples we had in the show. What I DON'T love is the imature Degrassi drama that fandom drenched them in, something that I sorta retaliated to in my Sundails trailer. So, I ended up staying away from the two and exploring other aspects to vid.
The second thing that lead me to this video? I had realized the two don't get enough love anymore. While overexposed for a long while, it seems the fandom is starting to hate them more then enjoy them. Trying to pair Jason and Kim and insist that was the real thing instead. I'm all for exploring creative aspects of the show - heck, I'm the one that did a Nick/Vida video. But at the end of the day, you gotta accept what's real and what happened. These two had the longest lasting relationship on PR, and what you could stand to say the most romantic relationship. There aren't any real good videos for them. I wanted at least one perfect video of them for the fandom.
Teenage Dream?:
Oh come on. Look me in the eye and say this isn't the most perfect song for these two. I'm not a fan of Katy's version, I'll come right out and say that. If it weren't for Boyce, I wouldn't even be doing this video, no matter how perfect the song stands to be. But when I heard his rendition, it all just clicked together - the lack of TK on my account, the lack of love, and the perfect song hitting my muse...I had to. I loved his rendition because it brings emotion to the lyrics. It's also less dirty, which is A( perfect for TK and B( More romantic, seeing as I don't feel you need sex to equal love.
I also wanted to do something from the male, Tommy's, POV, because I felt it was more of a challenge to show love from that point of view, and still leave the viewer with that fluffy candy feeling
How'd you make this?:
Everything was edited using Sony Vegas. The effects done in AE CS4
Music?
Teenage Dream by Boyce Avenue
Teenage Dream Interpretation by Sunny Cho (BTS music)
So, did I sail or did I fail? I haven't explored romantic videos as much as I need to (it's never good to find a comfort zone, after all) but I'm hoping this makes up for that. I promise something a bit more manly after this though, whatever that may be :)
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