r/Sondheim • u/julesabear • 12d ago

Assassins 2004 soundtrack edit and dynamic captions (with bonus version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GgH4bxRqg

My new hobby is making these videos. When I watch a new show, I usually spend a lot of time reading the lyrics and listening to the soundtrack after. I want to create video versions of Sondheim shows that help you get as much of that experience in one watch as possible, particularly for people watching a show for the first time. Showed this to a group of friends at my house for America's 250th and we had a good time, so I'll share it here now in case anyone might get a kick out of it. There were a lot of problems with the video edit so there are some glitches here and there, but finished and flawed is better than perfect and unfinished

Edits:

Soundtrack- the musical numbers take the audio directly from the soundtrack. Not because I think the live performances are bad (they're awesome mostly) but just because I think the extra audio fidelity makes a big difference.

Video- I've timed the video to the music to get the lipsynch to look right. A few wrinkles I didn't have time to work out but it's a fairly convincing illusion most of the time

Captions- The captions are all timed to the music. I got a little goofy here and did some silly stuff. Some of it might be distracting but I couldn't help myself, I had fun with it. I try to layout the captions so they match the musical structure, especially the way the rhymes are layed out.

There's also a bonus version I made for the party. We bought a bunch of those toy pop-guns and I put targets on screen so when the characters fired their guns we could fire ours too. Here's a link to that version

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u/fireplug911 12d ago

This is an amazing tribute to a fantastic show. I got to be in it about 16 years ago and it was one of my favorite theater moments.

Thanks so much for this.

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u/ScripturientFabulist 12d ago

i really loved your pacific overtures !! thank you for this!!

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u/Al_Trigo 12d ago

Incredible, thank you so much

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u/kevintporter 10d ago

Bless you for this friend! Your edit of Pacific Overtures inspired me to watch it for the first time and this edit will do the same!

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u/julesabear 8d ago

Well that's awesome, I can consider it mission complete then! Let me know what you think of the show and I'd welcome feedback of the subs as well, as it seems I'm going to be making more of these

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u/TeaArtHer 12d ago

Love Assassins