BIONICLE Music Video | KMFDM - Save Me

Wow, this took way too long to make. After the fun I had making my previous BMV (   • BIONICLE Music Video | Jawbox - Mirrorful  ) I had a long list of songs I wanted to use in future music videos. However, the free program I had been using, OpenShot, was awful to deal with. It runs horribly and I didn't have as much precise control of the clips as I liked. Between then and now, I took a film class at my university that gave me access to Adobe Premiere Pro, and started work on this BMV. However, I could only work on it when I was at home and at liberty to use my desktop computer in the office - not my laptop, which I use far more often. This languished for a while until I realized I could use Steam Link as a remote desktop - not just to play Steam games - which suddenly gave me the rush of motivation I needed to finish it in about two days. With the increased control I have with Premiere Pro, I was better able to make the clips and their various focal moments line up with beats in the song - I'm quite proud of the intro and the part when the Toa Inika activate the trap. I experimented with stretching and squishing clips to make them line up better, so do let me know if that is too noticeable / doesn't look good (this may be most noticeable with the Phantoka flying in, with Reidak fighting the claw, and Matau swinging out of the chute). "Save Me" is from German industrial metal band KMFDM's 2002 album Attak and I feel that it is very tonally consistent with the kinds of sounds BIONICLE had from 2006-2008. One big issue, though, was its length. This song is almost six minutes long, and by the end I was scraping the bottom of the barrel for clips (maybe you can tell - I used the 2006 "Giants" commercial and the short animated segment of the 2010 Stars commercial near the end). Unlike with "Mirrorful", where I felt I had a sort of theme to work with, this song is just so long that I had to use footage from nearly every Ghost-animated BIONICLE video. I hope you enjoy. Special thanks to the BioMedia Project (https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/) for their archival work. Their high-res archives of BIONICLE media make it easy for me to make BMVs. Special thanks also goes to ffmpeg for making it effortless to convert these 20-year-old files and their deprecated formats into modern formats that can interface with Premiere Pro. I'd like to tackle a shorter song for my next BMV. #BIONICLE #KMFDM #MetropolisRecords