Singing in the Dark

Ok so this one takes some explaining. The themed premiere for @vidukon this year was 'Unfinished Business'. The con itself was held in Birmingham, which is the terminus (now) of the High Speed Rail 2 project. Well. It will be. There has been so much slippage the new station is a massive hole in the ground. Birmingham also happens to be my home town, and I can't remember a time when parts of it weren't been dug up, knocked down, built, and the knocked down again. The whole city is unfinished business, and HS2 is a big part of that.

I joked that I should make an HS2 vid for the premiere, and then got encouraged to actually do it. The song suggestion was from Janecdotes and was perfect, as of course, Ozzy was also from Birmingham.

I wasn't really sure how to go about vidding something that doesn't have the same narrative as a TV show. With a show, you sort of already have that structure of a story you're working in, even if you are breaking the story in some why. I wasn't even really sure what footage existed for me to use.

I ended up writing a storyboard with what I wanted to happen, the narrative I wanted to show, then went looking for footage. I watched a LOT of engineering and drone footage, technical explainers, and parliamentary questions. I also incorporated static images, such as headlines and search queries.

I think I was definitely inspired by the way @beatriceeagle uses static panels in They Give it Away, and the approach to vidding an infrastructure project was inspired by absternr's amazing can-opener bridge vid Hard Knock Life.

Crazy Train is a long song, so I chopped out about a minute or so of it- including some of Randy's legendary guitar work, which I'm sure is metal blasphemy.