They'd better not ask me to take the department over.
June is SUCH a bad month for me.
SammySamaProductions wrote:Okay so I saw this scene and thought it would be a shame not to use itI figure the explosion needs to be changed out but let me know if this idea is worth pursuing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTFQerfCD7g
Deuce Loosely wrote:I thought it was an explosion when the sword is pulled out..?
Then I would have suggested the scene where Black*Star pulls it out successfully and then DTK tries it and gets 'sploded.
Or maybe Black*Star gets 'sploded right away..?
Gaelstrom wrote:
A friend mentioned the PERFECT example of a way to make it subtle. Sword in the Stone. He came up with it on a whim, but the idea fit, even if I can't think of any anime scenarios. Basically, you have something important occurring with the Sword in the Stone moment, everyone's eyes are on it, and then the sword is inserted and it triggers the explosion. Subtle enough that nobody knows exactly what'll happen, but sensible enough because it's a major event. Just like Ryo-Ohki hatching. So it's that type of scenario I think we're looking for. As I work this week, I'm thinking about what will work while I prepare a few more smaller clips, including captpan6's being up-ressed.




Deuce Loosely wrote:Working on the beta today as I wait for the remaining scores to come from independent AMA AMV contest preliminary screenings.
They'd better not ask me to take the department over.
June is SUCH a bad month for me.








SammySamaProductions wrote:Okay...this is my second attempt at "subtle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4VOp0jTX9M
Gaelstrom wrote:SammySamaProductions wrote:Okay...this is my second attempt at "subtle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4VOp0jTX9M
Heh, better, but it seems like every single one of your clips is 8 seconds long. What I mean by having the Tenchi-type one is that that one was a setup that had a payoff. That's why I called your earlier ones the "obvious" ones, because there's nothing but a solid, straightforward explosion joke. In this case, you'd have the scene building up. In the tenchi clip, Ryoko is taunting Tenchi, everyone's reacting, everyone's focussed, and then you pull the punchline on people in a way they don't quite expect.
But think carefully about this for a moment, you have some contrasts there that remove chunks of the humor. First, he's very calm and collected, not smug or drooling which would elicit a desire to see him get some repercussions, so we don't even get the impression he cares enough to keep looking. Second, you blow up a bunch of cute girls ^^ That actually subconsciously removes humor for me, because you created victims, rather than him being a victim of himself. This is actually one of those instances where you'd really want a calculated explosion, such as a window explosion. Because with this huge one, you don't know who or what blew up. So my first thought was "Why'd he blow up the girls?" His cold demeanor makes it seem like he just firebombed a public bath, and while that concept is ridiculous, the clip itself is rather dark instead of funny.
Think of your others. The character going "OOooooh, what does this button do!?" is like famous last words, so subconsciously the audience goes along with them bringing it on themselves. Plus it's Deedee, isn't it? ^^ Deedee deserves an explosion. And the slots one is a complete ironic contrast in that he hit the jackpot, and it's like the Casino said "Oh yeah? Well fuck you!" *BOOOOOM!!!* You turned the explosions into reaction characters rather than an event, like the explosion is consciously trying to screw with the character. That's what this one feels like it lacks.
Off the top of my head, instead of "Do you want to continue," in this case, an example of something that would work potentially stronger for his type of character is the screen comes up for a moment showing the girls, you cut back to him for a reaction, stoic or otherwise, then back to the screen, then it stops and says something like "Unauthorized peeping!" and set a 5-second countdown, just enough to see a couple seconds, then cut to him to go "Aww, shhhh-BOOOOOOOM!!" You can even use the click, because you've set up the bomb subconsciously with a countdown. In this case, his reaction getting cut off by the explosion is the explosion humor.
But good job ^^ I love seeing your submissions.




Deuce Loosely wrote:I've run into an issue.
There's no way I'm gonna be able to avoid certain editors' clips from being placed next to each other because a few turned in a bunch and the rest just a few.
To this end I'm gonna do the following.
Rather than formatting the end credits with the editors' names attached to each clip, I'm proposing I lead off with listing the editors' names and then running down the clip information in order of appearance.
Otherwise, at some point, you're gonna see a string of clips by the same editor.
I'm positive this is gonna be the case anyway once we get to the part where we adjust the timeline for flow and consistency.
I could also swear I had more clips in the AMVS5 folder than I'm seeing but may be just me..?
Anyway,...back to work.
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