Hello my name is Diego Bank. I listen to Cascadathon about once or twice a day, and then on infinite repeat when I am concentrating on gaming (because it shortens my reaction-time and helps me monitor my spells' cooldown-times). I am contacting you now in the high hopes that your crew members can participate in my project:
Requirements: Since I've used Cascadathon as one of the sample videos to discuss
Quality, I will describe what a High Quality video entails - yet since I have only just contacted you, I will tell you my analysis later. We are collecting applicants from
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/609098-commission-video-editor and
Nexon... Though when I tracked The Cascadathon Crew to AMV forums, I realized that the only people who would fulfill our criteria (while being interested enough to work for minimum wage) would be found here (I cannot afford a professional for the length of video I am aiming for). Therefore I am contacting you now to see how I can contact the community here to hire or commission one or more video editors for our music video.
I say 'our' in reference to my guild, [url=colossus.forum-motion.com]Colossus[/url], which I am co-leading. I sponsor this guild in addition to my favourite manga artist,
http://Mayshing.com, who is developing an indie anime-project called
E-Depth Angel (it just started - but the Manga is really good)!! Along this theme of sponsoring artists, my guild and I are hiring a video editor to work on our project at:
http://colossus.forum-motion.com/t916-hiring-video-editorThe purpose of this music video is to hype our guild and demonstrate our excellence in competitive-gaming. The video format will resemble a compilation of gameplay footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZveyXikVUCoWe use a variety of recording software, and it will be up to me to communicate formatting-requirements to our Livestreamers (footage recorders). There are approximately five footage recorders who will be submitting footage to our video editor (facilitated by me), and you do Not need to keep the original sound-effects or BGM.
We are using the above game Dragon Nest for our content. Regarding the final format of the video, it is targeted for Youtube (highest quality) with attention to detail in synchronizing both the
1) clip-transition to the music beat
and
2) movement/actions and lyrics and melody
The synchronization we are looking for in terms of movement+melody is exemplified from 5:19 - 5:58 in the CascadaThon AMV. As well as in 2:50 - 3:33. The synchronization between actions and lyrics can be done at the editor's discretion, though I will advise on some of the content since the lyrics will be utilizing game-vocabulary. The rest of your The CascadaThon Crew's AMV has excellent synchronization between music beat and transitions, as perfected in
E u p h o r i a.. I like how chiicrazy incorporates captions into the Final Fantasy video because it would be an excellent bonus if we could include the names of all of our 100-300 guild members in the music video!! I will compile a list of our members here:
Member ListDo you know of any artists who would be qualified to do this? They would also be paid to select and compile clips from our footage recorders, at negotiated hourly wage. They will be working with the [Karaoke] Bad Apple!! soundtrack, to which I will be writing lyrics and hiring a talented singer (or my friends). One of my friends runs a music store, one sings in international live concert as part of a choir and one is my really close Friend. Once I've recorded with one of them (not the music store guy since he lives somewhere else now but he was also a singer for the international tour) then I will show it to you, get your feedback and decide on whether to commission
Laura Shigihara for the finished version
Contact Details:Website -
http://colossus.forum-motion.com/t916-hiring-video-editorHotmail - [Available upon request]
Skype - 'phencoa'
AMV Forums -
ReminiscableNickname:
MapleSyrupYoutube:
ReminiscableWe will have our footage ready for editing by September 17th (after which you can request custom roleplayed scenes of up to 16 players). If we run out of $200 budget then show us your current work and we'll do
Fundraising. The English lyrics for our soundtrack will also take a few weeks but you can go off
Touhou - Bad Apple!! PV until we have our custom recording. For info on lyrics see our website. The clip imagery should be related to the lyrics (to be discussed with footage recorders). I'll be discussing the project in-depth with our applicants during the first week of September, in order to select candidates and estimate a price quote. If I can't afford this, then I'll begin contacting people who can from my guild! Ideally if we are looking to be paid for the whole project then we should start at 0:00 have an appealing preview by the time we start fundraising! I donate $250 per week towards my guild but... That's for my guildmates to use, and if you want to get their funding then you need to win their support with the first $200. If anyone has questions or feedback/criticism then message me using any of the above
Contact methods.
- Diego