AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (Nekocon 14, here we come!)

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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby SammySamaProductions » Thu May 26, 2011 3:30 am

Gaelstrom wrote:http://www.davidkrein.net/TitlesTest08.rar

All right everyone, this is my completed (first draft) of the intro. I REALLY REALLY want your impressions on it. Let me know if there's anything you think I could do to make it better, if you think something looks exceptionally off, just let me know. I can't promise too many massive changes but we have the time to fix it, and now's the time.


I absolutely love it! The only thing is I find the flying bed off to the side to be a bit...odd...out of place maybe? I don't know just seemed strange. But that's just my opinion. I Love the additions and the AMVS4 gieco money was a very nice touch at the beginning. :D
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Thu May 26, 2011 4:32 am

SammySamaProductions wrote:
Gaelstrom wrote:http://www.davidkrein.net/TitlesTest08.rar

All right everyone, this is my completed (first draft) of the intro. I REALLY REALLY want your impressions on it. Let me know if there's anything you think I could do to make it better, if you think something looks exceptionally off, just let me know. I can't promise too many massive changes but we have the time to fix it, and now's the time.


I absolutely love it! The only thing is I find the flying bed off to the side to be a bit...odd...out of place maybe? I don't know just seemed strange. But that's just my opinion. I Love the additions and the AMVS4 gieco money was a very nice touch at the beginning. :D


Little Nemo doesn't work, huh? I figured I was using mostly classics so I'd throw that one in for the people who will recognize it, and the others going "what the fuck?" The alternative is I have a shot from Strike Witches I could use, give the audience some good old fashioned panchira right off the bat. Or if anyone else has any ideas. Does everyone else agree?
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby SammySamaProductions » Thu May 26, 2011 5:10 am

Gaelstrom wrote:
SammySamaProductions wrote:
Gaelstrom wrote:http://www.davidkrein.net/TitlesTest08.rar

All right everyone, this is my completed (first draft) of the intro. I REALLY REALLY want your impressions on it. Let me know if there's anything you think I could do to make it better, if you think something looks exceptionally off, just let me know. I can't promise too many massive changes but we have the time to fix it, and now's the time.


I absolutely love it! The only thing is I find the flying bed off to the side to be a bit...odd...out of place maybe? I don't know just seemed strange. But that's just my opinion. I Love the additions and the AMVS4 gieco money was a very nice touch at the beginning. :D


Little Nemo doesn't work, huh? I figured I was using mostly classics so I'd throw that one in for the people who will recognize it, and the others going "what the fuck?" The alternative is I have a shot from Strike Witches I could use, give the audience some good old fashioned panchira right off the bat. Or if anyone else has any ideas. Does everyone else agree?


That's what that was? Little Nemo?!?!? I KNEW it looked familiar! lol. The bed is just fine, just threw me off compared to the other types of characters used. Strike Witches would work too but either is fine. I know that doesn't help much but some like me won't get it off the bat and just be like, what the hell is that?
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby krvabo » Thu May 26, 2011 6:04 am

Deuce Loosely wrote:Also...I hope krvabo approves of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jvWc1zdNMI

Haha yeah, go for it. Made me smile.

Gaelstrom wrote:It's your tag, krvabo, do you have a favorite explosion you love in any movie or anime?

No not that I can think off.. I thought this explosion was rather well done though.

@Titletest08. Dr Who right? I dunno how it normally looks, but I liked it for an intro. :)
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby kireblue » Thu May 26, 2011 2:36 pm

just sent in 2 videos.
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Thu May 26, 2011 3:16 pm

kireblue wrote:just sent in 2 videos.

:awesome: :up:
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Fri May 27, 2011 12:47 pm

Just heard back from Scott.
I'm out of time to get him a real beta (only half-done with the first one) so I'mma give him the one we have with opening and closing added in for time.
We will make it into the program book and have a month to send a polished final. ;)
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby krvabo » Sat May 28, 2011 11:07 am

Well let's hope that the timing lines up after editting :)

I thought there might be some people sending clips in, so I guess you'd need to cut a few if they turn out better than the others?
How is it timewise? Longer than the previous salad?
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sat May 28, 2011 11:15 am

We're definitely hitting the half-hour mark this year.
And there will have to be a few trims here and there since I don't wanna go over time.

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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby moonbunnychan » Sat May 28, 2011 3:33 pm

When it comes to cuts, I wanted to cut the K-On radio song one anyway, since I really struggled to make it work in any kind of engaging way (I was a little surprised to see it in the beta). I still like my She Ra and Spider Pig ones, but they are the weakest of the ones I submitted I think. If they can stay...awesome...but if it's really coming down to the wire, it wouldn't break my heart to loose them. Maybe they can be my first official clips for AMVS6 or something. :awesome:

Who did the Screw in the Tuna one? I'd say that's definitely the weakest link right now, solely for it's length, not the content.
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Sun May 29, 2011 1:16 am

moonbunnychan wrote:When it comes to cuts, I wanted to cut the K-On radio song one anyway, since I really struggled to make it work in any kind of engaging way (I was a little surprised to see it in the beta). I still like my She Ra and Spider Pig ones, but they are the weakest of the ones I submitted I think. If they can stay...awesome...but if it's really coming down to the wire, it wouldn't break my heart to loose them. Maybe they can be my first official clips for AMVS6 or something. :awesome:

Who did the Screw in the Tuna one? I'd say that's definitely the weakest link right now, solely for it's length, not the content.


I agree with Shira and Spider Pig, but the K-on radio song is one of the ones I liked. Your choice for censors was great, in fact the only part of it that made me go 'awww' was when you didn't censor that last part with Yui because I wanted to see what your choice would be. You had me actually waiting for it ^^ In fact I'd highly recommend adding that last censor in. For some reason using the iconic parts of the intros/endings made it that much more... well... iconic; and funny :D Especially Mio shaking her hands nervously at the honks, that was definitely a worthy climax.

The K-on songs: I preferred the 'song on radio' just a bit more than the 'not wearing underwear today' because I don't remember it being done before personally. Not wearing underwear was done in AMVS3 or 4, and really well, and for me personally I'm very big on avoiding something that's been done well before. Kind of like how nobody can make an AMV to Sail On anymore because you can't really beat the One Piece AMV to it ^^ I just believed that the lipsync needs a couple more hours of work for 'underwear' and it'll be quite solid. Seriously, not even that much time. Concert footage can be used instead of slowdowns if necessary as well. In fact ending with a shot of her in the concert hall singing from the end of season 1 and then some girls reacting squeeishly would work in contrast to how much fear she had of tripping ^^

Haruhi Funky Town: Haruhi singing Funky Town makes me nervous merely for the fact that everyone's bored of that Haruhi footage, but the fact that the clip wraps up so quickly and has the rarely seen before "Thank you" makes it work. The problem is just the lipsync, since I've found the humor of a singing clip is directly proportional to its matching.

Half Hour: I'm for avoiding shooting for the half hour mark if we have to rely on some of these clips not getting the attention they need. Time means nothing without quality. We have PLENTY of time to fix the ones that can do with a bit more work, people don't even need to spend a lot time on them. The key is getting it strong by the final deadline (obviously a couple days before to guarantee no problems). We have two full weeks to truly get this taken care of for the June 24th deadline, and we can easily have them done by the beta screening with a little work.

We lack the explosions, so 5 days unfortunately won't work. Moonbunnychan, myself, and Miko at least all had stuff going on this year, so it wasn't our year to focus fully, so this blessing of extra time should be treated as just that. Plus, your computer's working, Deuce ^^ *knock on wood*

I believe we should all do a quick list of what should get some work done. A final tally of things that could get a quick bump in quality.

Here's mine:

4chan memes: Lengthen the scene of the 'watching you fap one for a bit if possible. I know the scene is a short flashback, but perhaps you could duplicate the footage and reverse it so he spends a few seconds looking back and forth, even with Ryoko blinking it'll almost be like an e-card or something, and it'll give people time to read and react and the music won't be cut off. The others, not too fond of.
K-on Underwear: Discussed above.
Chiyo Lazytown: Talked about this before too. Can you work with this one's lipsync moonbunnychan?
Haruhi Funcytown: Discussed above.
Mnemonics: Too long and unrelated unless you were to incorporate another character as the narrator. I don't care if it's even Saki or one of the other girls, but the male teacher would be best. Just a few shots of him, please, it can be such a more epic clip.
On a Boat: Still vote for cutting I'm sorry to say, too close time-wise to what we did two years ago. Nice effort and irony though. I'm just for believing fans will have seen the others, or will find them if they enjoy themselves, and we don't want to be redundant, among other things.
Robot Unicorn: Still think we can speed up the end and make them run really fast into the star at twice the speed and make it an explosion clip. Will work well I believe ^^ Please post if you're okay with this, it will be a good one, I promise you. I'll guarantee much of the 4chan audience will be sick of this song and love the explosion twist.
Shira: Agree on the cutting. Good job on irony, just not quite there in humor.
Spider Pig: Ditto.
Prostitute Hippo: While I say this should be cut JUST for 'sucky sucky 5 dollah' I honestly leave it up to the rest of you. Anime's too obscure for me to think most people won't be distracted by wondering what it is.
Keroro Communist: Dunno... just too slow a clip, even if the idea is amusing... if there's no way to speed it up, I'm for a cut.
Gundam Gay: The more I think of this clip, the more I just don't know what to think. There was a parody using X a few years ago that used this same audio and was done better, but few probably remember. I think this needs lip syncing to match rapidly to truly be funny. I think Miko's Death Note Family Guy had much of its hilarity from the excellent, EXCELLENT lip syncing. I can't state enough how much stronger the humor is in anything with strong syncing.

I can promise at least three new clips in the next couple of weeks (including the FMA one once I narrow it down better). Quick, pallet cleanser ones, the ones we have a shortage of. I have limited time, so I'll be focussing on those a LOT this week and next since I have seminars the next two weekends.
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby moonbunnychan » Sun May 29, 2011 10:07 pm

The prostitute hippo and on a boat ones are actually two of my favorites (ones I actually did in fact "laugh out loud" at)...so I guess with those two it's just a matter of opinion...everybody does laugh at different stuff.

You liked the K-on one? Ok, I may think about it again then. Like I said, I just didn't think it was all that interesting or engaging. Also I didn't censor the song myself, it came that way.
The Funkytown, Star Trekin, and Underwear ones are all mine, and I know need lip sync work. I just need to find time to actually do it.
Not sure how much faster I could make the robot unicorn one without it looking obviously sped up...but I think I can make it explode better. Also should I make the explosion at the end of the Star Trek one use the same explosion noise as the rest of the stuff?

I like the She-ra one and am just so on the fence on what other people's reactions to it would be...and really would like to at least get some sort of outside reaction to it before cutting it, unless it really is make or break for the time limit.

Oh and is everybody doing exploding production tags?
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sun May 29, 2011 10:21 pm

moonbunnychan wrote:Oh and is everybody doing exploding production tags?

I was thinking about that.
Might make one myself this time...
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Mon May 30, 2011 12:45 am

I honestly believe we shouldn't all do exploding tags unless it makes sense. krvabo's fits with the snaps, because the "*Snap**BOOM*" fits the timing (as well as his tag is long enough to get his name in), but I don't think any of our other tags warrants explosions other than his, and plus, it'll just get repetitive, expected, so on and so on. What we really need is more explosion clips, which I hope to be a part of rectifying in the next couple weeks. I hope others are being worked on as well.

K-on Song on radio: I was talking about the visual censorship. I know the song well, but it was your use of such recognizable footage as the censorship that made it really amusing the first time I saw it ^^ But the problem is how the footage is slowed, the lipsync is not really there, etc. Plus I think the footage of the piano-playing feels strange, almost like it comes off as her playing the censor sounds, which caught me off guard. Perhaps you might consider switching that with something else as well, but that's more minor. I just really liked the classic song usage and the K-on usage.

Funkytown, Star-Trekkin, and Underwear: It really seems like you went all out this year with fun ideas, but few of them have gone through refinement stage I guess? They're all good ideas, but you have them at 'first pass' level in quality right now. You sounded like you were quite busy this year though, much like all of us were unfortunately, so it makes sense. I really do hope you get the chance to spend some time on them. You only need an afternoon a piece I think at most. You just need to be careful about using the slowdown footage. For example, the first half of Underwear is great, the last half is where the people I've shown and people here seem to start picking up on obvious sync inconsistencies, culminated by the really slowed-down footage at the last shot. And with Star-trekkin, things like Kyon staying so long on the 'laws of physics, laws of physics' etc without shifting, and Mikuru's repeated sniffles or yelps or whatever she was doing, I'd say still-framing that, taking three stills of her mouth movements and then manually spend ten minutes syncing it with duplicated layers would work well if you have that ability.

Oh and you're absolutely right, can't believe I hadn't considered it before. The explosion could definitely work with the new *click**BOOM* sound. If there's a shot of one of them pressing a button, like Nagato hitting enter on the keyboard actually works. But instead of using the explosion from the anime, I think you'll need a REALLY exaggerated space explosion, like Namek or something, to make sure it gets that comedic exaggeration. It'd work well I think if you go with "I can't control it ca-" and in the middle of cap'n you show the button click with the sound and then the explosion.

Robot Unicorn: Don't worry about speeding up the footage. I only mean the part at the end, not the full clip. That actually is really REALLY slow compared to actual gameplay for the game, so don't worry about that at all. Double the speed won't be a problem. I was actually sitting there and had the time to think 'hit the star, hit the star, hit the- aww, no explosion' when I first saw it ^^ This one too I think could do with an apocalyptic boom as well. Maybe even replace the star with something ironic that is unexpected that would cause an explosion? Currently anything that happens with the star would be expected, so mixing it up may be worth considering.

Prostitute Hippo and On a Boat: Prostitute hippo I don't really have a problem with, but it's so obscure I don't know how people will react. The clip itself was a tad slow, but the real reason was I'm for bringing the production to a lesser time and have stronger impact. I'd trade that one out to make sure 'sucky sucky 5 dollah' has full impact anyday, but that's really the only reason. For On A Boat, really it's that the joke is now old. It was actually old back when it was done in AMVS3. That and I just found out that another parody that'll be playing this year will have the joke as well. I just personally feel like we've already been down that road successfully and there was nothing new AMVS as a whole could really gain from it. I'm not particularly adverse to keeping either one though, just get this bad feeling about them.

She-ra: As long as Deuce can guarantee he gets a reaction video this time, I think that's a great idea to keep in anything we're not sure about. I find the She-ra one to be less funny and more 'yeah, kinda' in my reaction. I kept trying to find the connection but couldn't do it, and when I recognized I had to search, I realized that was an immediate concern. That's why my vote was for cutting. I don't say that to be mean or anything, I really don't want to be. If it works at the beta, then I'll be extremely happy to be dead wrong. I just want to hear uproarious laughter from the audience, that is ALL I want, because when that happens, all of us feel good.

EDIT: OOOH!! Moonbunnychan, great news! I was at Phoenix Comic Con this weekend, and today I walked in on 'AMV Comedy Hour' panel and what do I walk in on? My Haruvi Baadoman clip playing! After it was finished I mentioned who I was and what I'd made and he said before it he'd shown several AMVS4 clips he loved, including turning your geico money clips into a gameshow! He turned it into "Which of these is a real Geico Commercial." I wish I'd been there to see it, I'm going to try and contact him and see how he did it, if we do a panel, perhaps something similar could be done.
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Re: AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal (ONE WEEK to FINAL deadline!)

Postby moonbunnychan » Mon May 30, 2011 1:19 am

Gaelstrom wrote:EDIT: OOOH!! Moonbunnychan, great news! I was at Phoenix Comic Con this weekend, and today I walked in on 'AMV Comedy Hour' panel and what do I walk in on? My Haruvi Baadoman clip playing! After it was finished I mentioned who I was and what I'd made and he said before it he'd shown several AMVS4 clips he loved, including turning your geico money clips into a gameshow! He turned it into "Which of these is a real Geico Commercial." I wish I'd been there to see it, I'm going to try and contact him and see how he did it, if we do a panel, perhaps something similar could be done.


Holy crap that's awesome....I wish I'd known about it!

And I know you aren't being mean lol. Like I said I'm on the fence about it as well, which is why I'd love to know an outside reaction. If it ends up not working, it doesn't work. I don't really take it personally or anything. Really that applies to any of mine.

Just for reference, in case there's any other issues or comments or whatever the ones that are mine are : Duck Hunt, the Sailor Moon fluffy, the underwear K-on, the Osaka one with the knife, How To Train Your Charizard, the lazytown one, the electric slide one, the funkytown one, the Kay Jewelers one, Mnemonics, Phantom of the Opera, the radio song K-on one, She-Ra, Spider Pig, Ninja Turtles, Too Sexy, Robot Unicorn, Touch Me, the Sailor Moon Princess and the Frog one, Star Trekin', the kick ass and chew gum one, and Winter Wonderland.
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