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• Member: Brad
• Title: Time Waits For No One
• Premiered: 2007-05-11
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Halou Today
• Anime:
  • Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The (Movie)
• Participation:
  • Anime Central 2007, Anime Central 2007 AMV Contest (2007-05-11)
• Comments: Comments as seen on 2007-05-16 05:51:56:
  
  Not going to go too overboard in terms of comments here (since frankly I really don't think too many people actually read these), but either way, here's the short and sweet of it.
  
  I had heard about this movie coming out a while back and it sounded quite interesting. I had played at some North American film festivals and had received some great reviews so I always kept an eye on it. Finally, the DVD was scheduled to be released in Japan on April 20th, 2007. I marked down the date in order to get the DVD. Well, time came around, and I actually had the DVD by April 19th my time (thanks to time zone differences). I had read a synopsis of the plot so I had a basic understanding of what to expect, so I watched the entire movie unsubtitled (which is sometime I never do). I ended the movie being extremely moved and thought-provoked. It left me asking myself questions about life, fate, time. One of those "what does it all mean?" kind of evenings. Thusly, I was absolutely striken with an incredible urge to take all of these thoughts and build a video around it.......... in one day.
  
  It just so happened that the deadline for Anime Central's AMV contest was April 20th. So, I determined that if I could get a video done by Midnight, I could still make the deadline. So nearly immediately after I had finished watching it, I was ripping it and preparing it to be edited. I decided my song in very little time since I had been listening to the album a lot lately and the song just instantly had that "perfect" feeling to it. During the ripping process, I started working in Photoshop to get some "text textures" made up for my opening (as you will see in the video).
  
  I did get some sleep that night but as soon as I woke up I immediately set about editing. I was very determined and motivated and thusly my drive to edit was top notch. In the end, I was able to finish my entire video by the end of the night, encode it, and have it uploaded by 3am (only 3 hours late... What?...).
  
  I can say with great ease that this is my personal favorite video of mine.. I was VERY very pleased with the final outcome and it conveyed basically everything I wanted to say. To put it simply, I absolutely love this video. This isn't something I can easily say about every one of my videos, even ones that I am very proud of.
  
  So yeah. I really hope you watch this video and think more than just "Woooo what a pretty new movie!" (not that that's bad. It is indeed a pretty movie and I hope that this spurs many people to see it). I hope the video makes you think about the questions it asks and gives you a sense of reflection about what fate and time mean to you (And yes, I realize this is all sounding horribly pretentious. I just don't know any other ways to eloquently put it).
  
  Programs Used: Adobe Premiere 6.5, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe After Effects 7 Pro
  Total Time Editing: 14 hours (not including ripping/prepping/encoding/bumpers and credits)
  
  Music in Bumper: M83 - At The Party
  Music in Credits: Lali Puna - Everywhere & Allover