The Saragossa Manuscript on IMBD
Made using windows movie maker (because I’m stubborn) in about 11 hours with a break for lunch. I wish I would do this in smaller chunks so I could actually blog about the process, but by the time I finish it I have the overwhelming sense of needing to go outside and/or finally eat dinner.
I tried to rip the dvd with vlc player, but I couldn’t find an individual subtitles file. I think it was broken up into a bunch of different files, and so was the video for that matter. I ended up using opensource camstudio (a screen video capture program), which sacrificed a bit of video quality, but this way I could actually cut only scenes I wanted with the subtitles on top.
Windows movie maker crashes a lot if you don’t get it used to publishing video (which is a weird concept), but after you get through the first 1 or two hangups/freezes, it will publish/save video with ease. Save the project file often!
Andrew,
Wow, that was so masterfully done. You have the perfect narration voice, and the whole, “let’s recap, a story within a story within a story within a book within a movie” was awesome, twice. This film seems so insane, and you really frame the insanity of it brilliantly, what’s more, that last part about blind me in cities and the nature of storytelling reminds me a lot of my experience with this class, and there is some kind of larger, absurdist insights emerging from this.
This is a masterpiece, and I applaud the time and energy you obviously spent on it, but what’s more is that it resulted in a beautiful story about a story within a story within a story within a story within a book within a movie.
Bravo!
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You still have a copy of this video? If so send it to jimgroom@gmail.com so we can get this masterpiece back online!