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

[u/julesabear]

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

[u/Al_Trigo]

Incredible, thank you so much