The Quickening - Videos

[MimS]

Group D imho
PBE > Riccado > lloyd

Group C
Such a song, what a pain >_>
Anyway, Hayden and Gunter win \o/

[Animated]

Well, all three videos of Group D were too good for me to choose winners. I really want to see who is going to be eliminated. As for Group C, I'd go with Copycat (I love originality) and Hayden - not that Gunther's and Scoob's videos were not worth to win, just an opinion Great work for all 7 of you guys!

[lloyd9988]

Group D imho
PBE > Riccado > lloyd

Surprisingly. . . I agree with this. xD PBE and Riccardo did great with their tracks because they had more creativity with their tracks and better flow imo. Not saying I didn't do good, but they just did better

[JD_Lord1]

Group D imho
PBE > Riccado > lloyd

Surprisingly. . . I agree with this. xD PBE and Riccardo did great with their tracks because they had more creativity with their tracks and better flow imo. Not saying I didn't do good, but they just did better

Kudos for breaking 4 minutes in one week!

[ProjectBarcodeError]

i agree with Mims opinion about group C.

as for group D, i think the three vids have something special, that'll be a nice brawl. Personnaly i was suprised by your vid, lloyd, there was some intense scene choices. And edit 4 minutes ? this is Sparta material !

[Kinematics]

Group D-2

[lloyd9988] Goodbye_Days

First 10 seconds or so: weak intro

Sync editing is good, but theme editing is weak. For the first minute (first verse, basically), I'm not feeling a strong link between the video and the song. It only seemed to really pull itself together after the 2:30 mark.

Pretty much the first half of the video just felt 'bleh'. Poor matching between the lyrics and the video, and effects that didn't really help it. A bit of randomness that generally felt disjointed.

As it moved into the final action-heavy chorus, things tightened up, but the early story sections didn't seem to have a very strong grip on what they wanted to do or be.


[ProjectBarcodeError] Tell Me A Journey

Only 3 reframes. Animation tends to compress better with at least 8-12 reframes.

Interesting choice of source.

Sync editing was good. Thematic editing is better than "Goodbye Days", but was still only middling. It felt more closely linked to the song, while at the same time not needing to hew as closely to the lyrics (eg: the moon imagery not lining up with the lyrics does not feel out of place here). Still, there were lots of scenes that just didn't seem to contribute anything to the overall construction.

There were a number of awkward transitions. EG: Switching to the outdoor daytime fight at ~1:38 after the song is moving more heavily into "dark" imagery; gravestone cut at 2:35 doesn't blend well with previous imagery; etc.

Directional flow was all over the place, going in whatever random direction it pleased.

However, just about all of the "the stars, the moon" segments fit beautifully, without dipping into literal imagery.


[riccardocasu] InTheShadowOfYourHeart

Edited the audio a bit, rearranging the song to better fit the story it wanted to tell. Clean editing, but still feels a bit odd after listening to the full version several times just before this.

Seems to have a stronger feel for its theme. Editing was clean. Sync was good. Color tones maintained coherency, didn't feel like any parts were distinctly out of place.

Obviously much weaker in the chorus, where you'd expect a lot of heavy action, than the other two videos. And actually, the chorus around the 1 minute mark felt like the weakest part of the entire video, since it didn't really even make use of the editing forms used elsewhere in the video.




Top picks:
[riccardocasu] InTheShadowOfYourHeart
[ProjectBarcodeError] Tell Me A Journey


This group is really hard to write reviews for, particularly as a lot of impressions I had the first time watching them, that I wrote down, don't actually match what I see when coming back to it the next day. The majority of my objections in the first two is in scene selection; tedious to detail, and not like I can really provide a "this should have been used instead" list, so the critiques are a bit hand-wavy. While technical skills were good all around, overall I just wasn't impressed as much as I'd hoped, given the song.

[Radical_Yue]

Have some more vidyas

[Animated]

I'd go with Ileia and FadingSundown - with my second choice to be on a tie with PacoTacoShell. "Descent" seemed like a small summary of Kara no Kyoukai's episode 3 (very interesting plot... ). As for SatoshiSakura's video... felt quite cheap, seemed like the editor had very little time to make this, who knows? (exactly 2 minutes and an abrupt ending - also mpg). Anyway, good luck on all four of you!

[xDreww]

Ileia took it again this round I guess.
Wanted to see more amazing stuff with the song that I choose!! But I only liked hers than the rest though. Couldn't really get into the other entries.

[SatoshiSakura]

As for SatoshiSakura's video... felt quite cheap, seemed like the editor had very little time to make this, who knows? (exactly 2 minutes and an abrupt ending - also mpg). Anyway, good luck on all four of you!

You got it, I only had 3 hours the day it was due to work on it, my sister had her graduation and a cousin from CA came over to visit.
Good luck everyone!