Fully Feel The Super Dancing Rhythmic Heart Of The Loving Beat II Alpha... With A Vengeance!: Notes

Video: Dirty Pair Flash
Audio: SP-Trip Machine (DE-SIRE)
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This is the video that I did for the second DDR Project. I was thinking about a name to give it, when I thought of OmniStrata's Feel the Rhythm series of dance videos. I started combining the names, and came up with this. Although it's not a funny video, I found the name rather amusing and checked that OmniStrata didn't mind if I used it.

When it came time for me to choose a song in the second project, there were five left, and I didn't like the lyrics to any of them, so I chose this (almost) instrumental, SP-Trip Machine. After the premiere at AWA 8, Brad DeMoss said something like it was cool that I had had the guts to do a video with (almost) all still frames, but frankly, I didn't have as clear an idea of what to do as with Operator, and I was running out of time and disk space. The idea of getting the number of small clips (as opposed to stills) that I wanted didn't really appeal to me, so I decided to try it this way.

I went through all of the Dirty Pair Flash episodes (almost an hour per half-hour episode) and got a total of over 900 stills. Then I sorted them into groups: kei, yuri, both, bg, extras, sequences, etc. After timing the music I tried to group pics together in various portions of the song, with intros at the beginning and the "end of the day" at the end. (the final scene seems like such a cliche DPF scene to use, but I didn't care)

There are parts of the song that sounded like mumbling to me (heh), so I have overlays of text randomly permutated from the phrases {"kei yuri", "dirty pair", "lovely angels", "trouble consultants"}. I also took the pictures left over for each character and made a "flashy sequence" to half-fade with the transformation scenes, both to try and make it more interesting, and tone down the nudity a little. (though it's not that bad)

Finally, the dancers... From the start, I had them in mind. They're from some Amiga demos from 1992-3, State of the Art and 9 Fingers, both by Spaceballs. You can get DivX copies of them to see here. They're cool.