The Kira [ Death Note + Dethklok ]

Aria Mournesong · Post by **Aria Mournesong** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:13 pm

Title: The Kira
Anime: Death Note
Song: Murdertrain A-Comin'
Artist: Dethklok
Format: AVI
Codec: h264

Kind of a weird time of the year to be releasing this kind of AMV, but it's short and sweet and 100% Metal.

Anyways hope you enjoy watching, cause I reallyreally enjoyed making this project blacker than the blackest black times INFINITY!!!

Oh, and Merry Christmas

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:08 am

I watched this a lil after you announced it
Cool video Aria

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:22 pm

What's this? A video? Lies!

Aria Mournesong · Post by **Aria Mournesong** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:46 pm

Moonie211 wrote:I watched this a lil after you announced it
Cool video Aria

Why danke Moonie I'm glad you enjoyed it and commented on said enjoyment

. You also have the MOST adorable Avatar I've seen in a while

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JudgeHolden wrote:What's this? A video? Lies!

I would never lie to my sugar daddy

And now onto the always hilarious and sometimes enlightening QuickComments......

FunnyQuickComment#1 wrote:Not bad. Synch was perhaps a bit slow for a metal AMV, and the plot was slightly unclear. Nonetheless quite good though.

In the first draft I stuck with the old theory that if the AMV is to truely be metal it needs a flash for every beat. Unfortunately everyone that Beta'd the first draft is now blind. Which proves that it WAS metal, but if I blind everyone that watches it, then they won't be able to watch Panty Raid III: The Panties Strike Back and then JudgeHolden will be pissed off at me. So I redid it and only put flashes on every OTHER beat, reducing the damage of viewing it to only mild cases of seizures, but this also reduced the metal of this AMV.

FunnyQuickComment#2 wrote:killed this video.

You sir or ma'am are metal

InsightfulQuickComment#1 wrote:great job with limited footage

Thanks, you are definitely brutal so keep on rockin'

InsightfulQuickComment#2 wrote:FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND COOKIES! COOKIES I SAY!

I know who this one is from and I heart them muchly.
But for fun I decided to google "Justice Cookies"
Behold:

Merry Christmas to all and to all that have viewed my AMV many thanks.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:30 am

man...why do I have to be on dial-up when something cool comes out...
T-T

Tormentor · Post by **Tormentor** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:49 am

Okay, well it is shorter than 2min (usual for dethklok-songs). Still I consider this to be a little minus. It is also obvious, that you were inspired in your editing technique by the videoclips of the series ("suitcase full of gore" from the episode "murdering outside the box" especially) Even though I am a metalfan I can't really say I liked it for the contempt, you should have used another song perhabs, even though I am not too sure how that would have suited the message.

Technically the video is quite good. Nice and decent use of fxs and well compressed.

All in all I give you 3/5 stars for it.

Continue editing metal and take a longer song next time

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Aria Mournesong · Post by **Aria Mournesong** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:56 pm

Kariudo wrote:man...why do I have to be on dial-up when something cool comes out...
T-T

I'm sorry

. If you're still unable to Download it I can forward you to my Myspace Video account to watch it from there. Lemme know!

Tormentor wrote:Okay, well it is shorter than 2min (usual for dethklok-songs). Still I consider this to be a little minus. It is also obvious, that you were inspired in your editing technique by the videoclips of the series ("suitcase full of gore" from the episode "murdering outside the box" especially) Even though I am a metalfan I can't really say I liked it for the contempt, you should have used another song perhabs, even though I am not too sure how that would have suited the message.

Technically the video is quite good. Nice and decent use of fxs and well compressed.

All in all I give you 3/5 stars for it.

Continue editing metal and take a longer song next time .

Briefcase Full of Guts, Go Into The Water and Murdertrain A-Comin' were by three picks for a song. But the train episode in Death Note pretty much clinched Murdertrain as the song pick.

My editing choice with it though was based off of following the advice RolltheStampede gave me after he watched Trinity. He wanted me to try and keep my editing constant throughout the entire project. Lately I've worked on about three projects(two MEP shorts and this one) so I kept the basic editing the same between all three. On each 2 and 4 beat there was a flash in each. With the rest of the cuts in Kira though I decided to use every other guitar screetch at the first part to add in a quick image of the Murdertrain or Kira. Then I took two long clips and places quick fades in them to synch up with the first fast guitar part. Finally the last 3rd of the AMV was supposed to be a two-parter: the first had the scenes synched to the drum beat and would be in full screen. The second would be synched to the guitar and overlayed in widescreen. However, Premiere hated me that week and any masking I did turned out poopey, then my plug-ins weren't cooperating so I just shrugged and left it with just the drum part.

Now the quickie outro I made that is a complete homage to the outro from Metalocalypse ^.^

Thanks for your feedback and for watching the AMV though Tormentor! As for another metal AMV...maybe, iunno if I'm going to be working on anymore projects unless someone requests an Anime/Song or I happen across a MEP that would be fun to do after Winter Break. AMV making = too much work to dedicate what little free-time I'll have in the near future.