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Hi, recently did an editing project, to improve a fun 2012 Chinese language movie called 'Full Circle'. (a film with English subtitles about a group of seniors who have to escape from a nursing home to travel to a distant city to perform in a talent show)
the complete version of the movie, the edited version can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6cm...-ts=1421914688
read on, first, to see a sample of the synchs, you can see some short excerpted scene clips below.
The plan was to edit the film to shorten some of the longer tracts of dialogue, and to add some lively music, and to generally make the movie, which was a great movie to begin with, more enjoyable to watch.
Using some video editing software, a couple of Sparks songs were matched to a couple of the scenes in the film, and the results were astonishing, in the way that the music synched up perfectly with what was happening in the movie scenes.
There was no alteration done to either of the two mediums in the slightest to make this happen. The songs were untouched , and the original movie footage was untouched. Nothing was done edit or extend the movie to match the music or vice versa (with the exception of the song "At Home at Work at Play" having to end a bit early to match the end of the scene, which is negligable and involves no manipulation of the original speed of the music or editing of the film sequence)
see for yourself here (watch the clip):
This scene is where the seniors have just escaped the nursing home and are fleeing in a bus, and encounter some drunken thugs playing around with them on the highway, keeping them from passing
here is the original scene before the new music was added:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=KK...54&end_at=4597
The following short clip is my edit of the original scene:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ...34&end_at=3711
Bear in mind that I added the Sparks song 'At home, at Work , at Play' without changing a fragment of the song or the film to match eachother. (the confrontation scene is funny because the young guys take out crow bars and tools to help change the tire, and the people in the bus think they are going to use the tools as weapons to attack them) It is mind boggling how well this entire song synchs up with the footage.
Here is another example of the same thing:
In the following scene, the seniors are still on their way to Tianjin City in their bus. The bus has stalled and they have to push start it to to get it going.
included is a brief previous scene with it in the clip , where the younger concerned relatives of the seniors from the nursing home are pursuing the bus, in an attempt to bring them back to the nursing home. On the way to catching the seniors , they are somberly reflecting on how little time they might have left with some of their aging relatives. I only included this brief previous scene with the clip because this preceding sets up the mood of the following scene perfectly (to show how even the intro to the Sparks song 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' fit perfectly into the film) See the short clip here:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ...46&end_at=4032
In the above, song-length clip, note the way that the Sparks song (Hasta Manana Monsieur) starts out with weak flutes and then ignites, gradually accelerates and explodes into the soaring, traveling sound of 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' as exactly the bus itself does (the bus engine catches ingnition, the bus accelerates, and they break into the freedom of wide open prairie)
compare it to the original here:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=KK...49&end_at=4263
........how it all synched so perfectly and effortlessly. It is mind boggling. Then later in the clip, the electric guitar solo coincides perfectly with their encounter of the stampeding herd of horses. The weird part is that I left the original score intact beneath, and just loud enough for parts of it to be heard, and even the original surprisingly accents and compliments the Sparks song perfectly.
Watch the whole movie below. I used only Sparks songs (six Sparks songs) in the movie edit of six different scenes from the opening scene to the final scene. You will find the same thing happened with every song, perfect accidental synchs, without editing the film or music a bit. The opening song synchs up perfectly
with the opening scene, beginning to end.
Even the lyrics synched
(who don't like it?, [ittle proof that I'm not just a vegetable, living proof that I'm really sound, they'll ensure I'm always around) ,
Achoo [about healing someone sick and take them to a happier place/who knows what the winds gonna bring when the invalids sing la-la's with a powerful sting that'll stop any opera or any bing, he's gonna whisk you away, he's gonna make you ok) This song is when one man is suicidal and his old friend revitalizes him with membership in his new performing group, and takes him away to a new life on the road trip.
Hasta Manana Monsieur (about traveling and being misunderstood and moving on, hasta manana is Spanish and translates to 'see you tomorrow')
'At Home At Work At Play' contains the line 'you've got to catch her' during the chase scene when the seniors are fleeing, and the line 'I tried to tell you in the night, that with a girl like you I could do without guided tours' as they flee on their tour bus. Also when the leader of their group says "Ok, you want to play?" the words of the song right after that are At home at work at play. You've got to catch her while she's still at play."
Talent is an Asset ['Albert is a genius.Look at Albert isn't he a sight? Going going at the speed of light' as they escape via the ingenious ploys of their leader, and the topic of the song is about relatives being overprotective of loved ones, exactly as happens in the film]
There are so many coincidental synchs even with the lyrics, along with the sequential visual/video synchs .
********see the whole (edited) film above at the top of this post , or here:
it is a funny film in Mandarin Chinese, which has English subtitles which can be read more easily if you watch in zoom in your vrowser a bit and/or select full screen mode*****
'Full Circle'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6cm...-ts=1421914688
the complete version of the movie, the edited version can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6cm...-ts=1421914688
read on, first, to see a sample of the synchs, you can see some short excerpted scene clips below.
The plan was to edit the film to shorten some of the longer tracts of dialogue, and to add some lively music, and to generally make the movie, which was a great movie to begin with, more enjoyable to watch.
Using some video editing software, a couple of Sparks songs were matched to a couple of the scenes in the film, and the results were astonishing, in the way that the music synched up perfectly with what was happening in the movie scenes.
There was no alteration done to either of the two mediums in the slightest to make this happen. The songs were untouched , and the original movie footage was untouched. Nothing was done edit or extend the movie to match the music or vice versa (with the exception of the song "At Home at Work at Play" having to end a bit early to match the end of the scene, which is negligable and involves no manipulation of the original speed of the music or editing of the film sequence)
see for yourself here (watch the clip):
This scene is where the seniors have just escaped the nursing home and are fleeing in a bus, and encounter some drunken thugs playing around with them on the highway, keeping them from passing
here is the original scene before the new music was added:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=KK...54&end_at=4597
The following short clip is my edit of the original scene:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ...34&end_at=3711
Bear in mind that I added the Sparks song 'At home, at Work , at Play' without changing a fragment of the song or the film to match eachother. (the confrontation scene is funny because the young guys take out crow bars and tools to help change the tire, and the people in the bus think they are going to use the tools as weapons to attack them) It is mind boggling how well this entire song synchs up with the footage.
Here is another example of the same thing:
In the following scene, the seniors are still on their way to Tianjin City in their bus. The bus has stalled and they have to push start it to to get it going.
included is a brief previous scene with it in the clip , where the younger concerned relatives of the seniors from the nursing home are pursuing the bus, in an attempt to bring them back to the nursing home. On the way to catching the seniors , they are somberly reflecting on how little time they might have left with some of their aging relatives. I only included this brief previous scene with the clip because this preceding sets up the mood of the following scene perfectly (to show how even the intro to the Sparks song 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' fit perfectly into the film) See the short clip here:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ...46&end_at=4032
In the above, song-length clip, note the way that the Sparks song (Hasta Manana Monsieur) starts out with weak flutes and then ignites, gradually accelerates and explodes into the soaring, traveling sound of 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' as exactly the bus itself does (the bus engine catches ingnition, the bus accelerates, and they break into the freedom of wide open prairie)
compare it to the original here:
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=KK...49&end_at=4263
........how it all synched so perfectly and effortlessly. It is mind boggling. Then later in the clip, the electric guitar solo coincides perfectly with their encounter of the stampeding herd of horses. The weird part is that I left the original score intact beneath, and just loud enough for parts of it to be heard, and even the original surprisingly accents and compliments the Sparks song perfectly.
Watch the whole movie below. I used only Sparks songs (six Sparks songs) in the movie edit of six different scenes from the opening scene to the final scene. You will find the same thing happened with every song, perfect accidental synchs, without editing the film or music a bit. The opening song synchs up perfectly
with the opening scene, beginning to end.
Even the lyrics synched
(who don't like it?, [ittle proof that I'm not just a vegetable, living proof that I'm really sound, they'll ensure I'm always around) ,
Achoo [about healing someone sick and take them to a happier place/who knows what the winds gonna bring when the invalids sing la-la's with a powerful sting that'll stop any opera or any bing, he's gonna whisk you away, he's gonna make you ok) This song is when one man is suicidal and his old friend revitalizes him with membership in his new performing group, and takes him away to a new life on the road trip.
Hasta Manana Monsieur (about traveling and being misunderstood and moving on, hasta manana is Spanish and translates to 'see you tomorrow')
'At Home At Work At Play' contains the line 'you've got to catch her' during the chase scene when the seniors are fleeing, and the line 'I tried to tell you in the night, that with a girl like you I could do without guided tours' as they flee on their tour bus. Also when the leader of their group says "Ok, you want to play?" the words of the song right after that are At home at work at play. You've got to catch her while she's still at play."
Talent is an Asset ['Albert is a genius.Look at Albert isn't he a sight? Going going at the speed of light' as they escape via the ingenious ploys of their leader, and the topic of the song is about relatives being overprotective of loved ones, exactly as happens in the film]
There are so many coincidental synchs even with the lyrics, along with the sequential visual/video synchs .
********see the whole (edited) film above at the top of this post , or here:
it is a funny film in Mandarin Chinese, which has English subtitles which can be read more easily if you watch in zoom in your vrowser a bit and/or select full screen mode*****
'Full Circle'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6cm...-ts=1421914688