Draco Malfoy - Undisclosed Desires

August, 2014

Fandom: Harry Potter

Character: Draco Malfoy

Song: Undisclosed Desires by Muse

Description:
I know a lot of Drarry and Dramione vids exist... probably to this song as well, but I just wanted to make a straight up Draco Malfoy vid, because he's a great character all on his own. Also dedicated to the beautiful Tom Felton whose show Murder in the First just finished airing! (He's beautiful in that too).

This is such a popular song to vid to! I first became acquainted with this song when a vidder I highly admired made a Sarah Walker (Chuck) video to this song (that's now unlisted), and it included A TON of fast cuts and cool editing effects. And by fast cuts I mean fractions of a second to match the super fast bass beats!

Looking back on this, I cringe because the song has SO much potential to create a good vid, and I didn't have much technical skill back when I made this. My version of "fast" cuts still are probably at least an entire second long. I tried to be fancy with figuring out how to do bright flashes in my program. I'm self taught and PowerDirector is not a very well known program. It's cheap and satisfactory which is why I like it. Much more advanced than Windows Movie Maker, but without the expense of, say, Sony Vegas (which I still would love to have someday). I don't know how it's done in Sony Vegas but you know how I did it here?? I turned up the exposure as high as I could at the beginning of the frame and then eased it back down. Because actual white flashes or fades don't exist. I still do this trick to this day.

BUT regardless, it turned out to be one of my more popular ones likely due to the popular character and popular song.