Heaven Queen, Carry Me Away From All Pain

             You know how I said the last project almost kicked my butt?

              Consider it kicked.

              I have been defeated by a foe greater than any the world has ever seen.

              Who or what is that foe?

              It’s me.

              My own ambition and ideas are stronger than my fragile human body and the short time I have to spend on this Earth. I have seen the dark end that lies in wait for all of us and felt the crushing burden of a great potential that will never be fulfilled. I have been slain by a despair so great humanity will sing of it for an age.

              But then, in my time of need, a new idea emerged. An idea with the possibility to be entertaining, enjoyable, and within my skill. I was resurrected, and thus, Crisis was born.

            The project for this week was to create movie credits for a real or imagined movie. As you may have gathered from the dramatic prose above, I came up with a lot of great ideas but found the execution of those ideas to be…un-exectuable. That’s not a word. Whatever. I started on two entirely different projects thinking “yeah, yeah, I can do this” only to find out I could NOT do this, and hence a three-day crisis of the largest magnitude ensued.

              I decided in the end to be funny, and I made the movie credits about said Crisis.

              I picked a song to back that I thought would reflect the panic, but is also, you know, a great song (Nightwish is always a win, if you ask me. Nobody did). The flickering and the lightning served that purpose as well, on top of easily matching the energy and timing of the song. Also, I just wanted to play around with the lightning effects. The color I could lie and say I chose because of the evil and villainous associations with green, as well as toxicity and things of that nature, but that’s all things that can be read into it after the fact. I just really like green, and green and black especially. Typically, you don’t find lightning of that color in nature, but it wasn’t supposed to be natural. It was supposed to be “I’m on edge in this 70’s themed nightmare kitchen.” Ok, kitchens or the 70’s have nothing to do with it, but I think you get what I mean.

              The typeface to me felt sharp but also smooth (if that even makes sense) and because it’s sort of a “fantasy book title trope” typeface, it also works with the music. This does make sense because metal bands have been using gothic, medieval, and fantasy typefaces since metal bands came into existence (also black metal bands naming themselves after things in Tolkien’s legendarium is absolutely a thing and this is hilarious to me. Who knew there were other people on the planet who are almost as weird as me?)

So, that’s that, my friends.

 

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” J. R. R. Tolkien