• Madly On ~ {1940+ Subscribers}
• no matter how hard life gets, the world spins madly on.
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It's been a long time hasn't it?
It's funny how life gets in the way sometimes. For a while I had lost my reason for editing in the first place. No matter what encouragement my friends here gave me, I could not edit. Then, a few days ago, I saw a short animated film of two characters, hand-drawn, dancing to this song. I don't know what it was about it that struck me, but I decided to try and edit with it.
In the beginning, I wasn't sure where I was going with it. I was just editing, letting my choices stand, and see where it would end up. It might seem a little random, I suppose, but for once I actually quite like it. There are two stories within the video, and I only realized afterwards that they were two possibilities I had always wanted to edit with, but never could.
I guess you can look at this like a preview for two different future paths I might take in a video. One, being the unique comparison between Vanille and Hope, and Yuna and Tidus - it hit me when I heard Vanille say they made a promise in another lifetime. She might not have meant anything by it, but all I could think of was Tidus and Yuna's promise to visit Zanarkand together. In the future, I would like to expand on this concept, and make a full video to it.
The same goes for Cloud/Stella/Tifa. There are many scenes where Stella is a copy of Tifa - something thats pretty obvious XD but since I have not seen too much Cloud/Stella, I might like to explore them as a possible crack couple. In this video, I fell back to Cloti in the end, because thats where my heart told me to go with the song.
I feel like this is a little more abstract than I usually edit, since I literally just shut my mind off and let the scenes come to me. I masked every now and then, and Vegas gave me absolute hell when rendering (the program is slowly dying on me). But I like it, despite the issues. I find its soothing... I hope you guys do too :)
Enough of my rambling.
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The storylines are fairly straight forward in my opinion. Vanille and Hope are young, they have feelings for each other, but they are part of something much bigger, part of a history and a past lifetime that has followed them, allowing them to be together in this time. In the end, though, she is taken away from him, but they feel that their promise has been fullfilled, and that they can be together again in perhaps another lifetime.
Cloud and Stella were once together, but he had always loved Tifa since they were children. Stella died, but her presence has always haunted him. He is with Tifa in the beginning, but he always feels like he is hurting Stella. She tries to comfort him, and tell him the world moves on and so should he. She goes to Tifa, who is hurt and confused by Cloud's withdrawn attitude. In the end, she helps Cloud make his final decision to move on.
"Tifa..." he confirms, though he had known it all along.
"Cloud...my chosen" Tifa replies, but in a voice not totally her own.
Was Stella also speaking through her, in a last lament to her lost love?
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This is for you, my almost 2000 subscribers! Thank you. I seriously never thought I would reach that number. Its humbling to think that you guys still like my editing that much, when half the time I dont even like it myself. So thank you xD
And this is also for my studio, Legacy Hearts Studios [LHS]. You guys are amazing friends, and so patient with me. I will come back to YT soon. Im still on hiatus. I need to find myself, before I can come find you again :')
YouTube is changing, Im changing. Everything is spinning, and Im trying to stand still. Trying to hold on to the way things used to be. Not wanting to look forward, not yet. There is a little piece of me in every character represented here.
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