Yuri on Ice, "Gasoline" [AMV] (Victor)
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melodytreeTitle: Gasoline
Fandom: Yuri On Ice
Song: Gasoline by Halsey
Contains: Possible visual triggers (flashing lights, zooming, flickering background effects); depression
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vexercises challenge: Color/Color Grading.
I've had the idea for this AMV for a while - long enough that I put it off in hopes that the movie would come out and have more footage I could use :'D I've also been wanting to experiment with color, especially after spending so long with Premiere's color tools to color-correct figure skating footage, and when I idly imagined this AMV, it was with a very stark color scheme.
First, I played with the curves tool until I found something I liked - bringing out the blues and purple, colors I associate Victor with and that match the theme of the AMV - and then went and put the actual video through a few drafts first. I knew from experience that a color effect and sometimes multiple on every clip = hope you like lag! I had to adjust the colors a lot after the first draft not just because of the underlying colors of the different clips, but because the clips of Victor in his practice clothes came out waaaaay too bright (and many of them too purple). So I had to go adjust them to give that starker look I'd imagined before by pulling down the contrast and changing the curves. The Stammi Vicino scenes also got an additional boost in saturation; I wanted them to have an eye-searing, overwhelming feel without actually hurting to look at. Also upped the saturation of gold in a couple of clips at the end.
And since I was playing with color, I also wanted to try out more with effects! I still haven't looked at After Effects or anything - it's all basic Premiere stuff + textures + overlays - but I enjoyed it. Textures are all public domain ice/snow textures, and the overlays are from Videezy.
Clearly the AMV was always going to be about Victor's pre-canon depression - hearing the lyric 'well my heart is gold but my hands are cold' was what made me want to make this, because that is perfect for Victor and I need to steal it for a fic title some day. But it also ended up becoming about the intensity of media pressure on Victor. It's easy to see him as someone who has started to lose his sense of self due to his public image ("Yuuri, what kind of figure do you want me to be? A father? A brother? A friend? Then, a lover?" "No, I just want you to be Victor!"), and as many rewards as his popularity has brought him, it's got to be tough to have to live up the expectation that you'll keep winning everything while you're losing your inspiration, especially given how nationalistic sports are and how... intense the fans can get. I wanted to get in a shot of the crowd holding Russian flags, but it turns out that the only one had a bunch of Yuri banners in it, so alas.
The skating scenes were really fun to edit together, and I'm quite pleased with them. I was a bit worried at first, because we actually get to see very little of Victor skating, and half of that is him skating the programs that he gives Yuri and Yuuri, but it didn't end up being a problem. Let's just ignore the Hasetsu signs in the background, haha. Overall, while it was a bit difficult at points, I'm very happy with how this came out :)
Download: Click here (contains softsubs for song lyrics)
Embed: (contains lyric subtitles)
Fandom: Yuri On Ice
Song: Gasoline by Halsey
Contains: Possible visual triggers (flashing lights, zooming, flickering background effects); depression
Notes: For
vexercises challenge: Color/Color Grading.I've had the idea for this AMV for a while - long enough that I put it off in hopes that the movie would come out and have more footage I could use :'D I've also been wanting to experiment with color, especially after spending so long with Premiere's color tools to color-correct figure skating footage, and when I idly imagined this AMV, it was with a very stark color scheme.
First, I played with the curves tool until I found something I liked - bringing out the blues and purple, colors I associate Victor with and that match the theme of the AMV - and then went and put the actual video through a few drafts first. I knew from experience that a color effect and sometimes multiple on every clip = hope you like lag! I had to adjust the colors a lot after the first draft not just because of the underlying colors of the different clips, but because the clips of Victor in his practice clothes came out waaaaay too bright (and many of them too purple). So I had to go adjust them to give that starker look I'd imagined before by pulling down the contrast and changing the curves. The Stammi Vicino scenes also got an additional boost in saturation; I wanted them to have an eye-searing, overwhelming feel without actually hurting to look at. Also upped the saturation of gold in a couple of clips at the end.
And since I was playing with color, I also wanted to try out more with effects! I still haven't looked at After Effects or anything - it's all basic Premiere stuff + textures + overlays - but I enjoyed it. Textures are all public domain ice/snow textures, and the overlays are from Videezy.
Clearly the AMV was always going to be about Victor's pre-canon depression - hearing the lyric 'well my heart is gold but my hands are cold' was what made me want to make this, because that is perfect for Victor and I need to steal it for a fic title some day. But it also ended up becoming about the intensity of media pressure on Victor. It's easy to see him as someone who has started to lose his sense of self due to his public image ("Yuuri, what kind of figure do you want me to be? A father? A brother? A friend? Then, a lover?" "No, I just want you to be Victor!"), and as many rewards as his popularity has brought him, it's got to be tough to have to live up the expectation that you'll keep winning everything while you're losing your inspiration, especially given how nationalistic sports are and how... intense the fans can get. I wanted to get in a shot of the crowd holding Russian flags, but it turns out that the only one had a bunch of Yuri banners in it, so alas.
The skating scenes were really fun to edit together, and I'm quite pleased with them. I was a bit worried at first, because we actually get to see very little of Victor skating, and half of that is him skating the programs that he gives Yuri and Yuuri, but it didn't end up being a problem. Let's just ignore the Hasetsu signs in the background, haha. Overall, while it was a bit difficult at points, I'm very happy with how this came out :)
Download: Click here (contains softsubs for song lyrics)
Embed: (contains lyric subtitles)
