Gaelstrom wrote:Honestly, I considered using Poet and Pendulum at one point in my list of storyboarded AMVs I have in my head that will take months to do. And I once dabbled with it in soundforge and edited it down to around 5 or 6 with the high energy parts. Honestly, I don't think yours should have been cut down. For lack of a better description, it is like a classical piece as you said, and operatic. You essentially made the 10-minute rock opera of Death Note through Misa's eyes, and honestly I found myself by the end of the song considering it canon to the story. People were bored in the middle merely because they're not used to the ebb and flow of classical in our society generally. I personally am similar, and tend to listen to the first half of the song when I do listen to it, but with a context, it reaches new levels. Nightwish is very much like a band that does movie soundtracks, but it's a movie soundtrack in their own heads for movies that don't exist, and you either see them or don't. You just hopped on that train and used it
Plus if nothing else, I got to grin at the uncomfortable shifting around me at the 'being raped again and again' part. You got to make some prudish people wonder if they should have been offended. "And for that, we thank you." -Daniel Tosh.

godix wrote:Like this one amv. It was all like woosh, zoom with effects. And I was all like whoa awesome. Then that guitar thingies popped up and went dun dun DUN dun then those box thingies went zooming by and twirling around and shit. Oh god, then the hexagons popped up and I was like 'I just got a stiffie'. Then there was the circle with those thingies going around and I blew my load.

JediNight wrote:PS: Do you have your updated version from Otakon available, Scintilla? The Org only has your AX version it seems.
OtakuGray wrote:Sometimes anime can branch out to a younger audience and this is one of those times where you wish children would just go die.
Stirspeare wrote:<Stirspeare> Lopez: Vanquish my virginity and flood me with kit. ["Ladies..."]

ZaCloud wrote:Man, I still can't believe my vid even got into the finals, let alone won. o.o I'm still in shock over that. I definitely understand why a lot of folks would be polarized on it; on its surface, it's ugh, Haruhi dance. But at least a few of you pointed out the possible reasons that a lot of the audience voted for it. I just hadn't thought so many folks would, you know, get it. The fact that they did, was definitely a surprise.
(To be clear, I wasn't at all trying to capitalize on the Hare-Hare-Yukai popularity. I don't keep track of what's popular, I'm way out of the loop. I just wanted to make a one-shot dance to the song, Haruhi had a lot of dance, and her face reminded me of KT Tunstall's voice without me ever having watched the anime. I STILL haven't watched Haruhi, and I don't even plan to. It was just a source decision based on an idea and availability. I really hope source-popularity wasn't why I won... That would suck.)
I'm sorry to those who were disappointed. >.< But the way I see AMV contests, is that it's to entertain the crowd and make them happy. Every vid you all did definitely accomplished that too, so a big THANK YOU to ALL of you who just plain make AMVs for everyone. :3
My personal favorite upbeat was "Noise Pollution" (BLT FTW!). Was kinda sad not to see that get runner-up or even first. And I don't understand anyone thinking the Death Note/Nightwish vid was too long. For me, it was timeless. So well edited throughout, so atmospheric, I never got tired of it and had no idea how long it truly was.
The "Diary of Jane" and Clannad vids were also my favorite dramas. I couldn't pick one favorite, seriously. "Journey through the Pages" was a great thematic vid, told a story, had great editing and effects to help it stay as intense as the song. Just a couple repeat clips brought it down slightly, but by no means ruined it. And "Today, Forever" actually made me tear up. Just beautiful.
"Gunsmith Cat City" was my faaaaaavorite action video, just so slick and cool!
And the comedy vids were all so great. And so many were so greeeaaat, I can't even go into detail cuz they were all so greeeaaaat! Aaaaah~! Seriously, this was a great contest, so many great vids, I still don't understand how mine ended up among so many great vids. @_@
Oh well... once again, congrats to everyone, and thanks for allowing a spectacular show to go on for Otakon!

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