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• Member: DriftRoot
• Title: 'Bustin
• Premiered: 2008-02-25
• Categories:
  • Comedy
  • Other
  • Parody
  • Fun
• Song:
  • Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters
• Anime:
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)
  • Final Fantasy (VII): Advent Children (movie)
  • Final Fantasy 7 (VII): Dirge of Cerberus (PS2)
• Participation:
  • Anime Boston 2008, AB 2008 AMV Contest (2008-03-21)
  • Sakura-Con 2008, Sakura-Con AMV/OVA Contest (2008-03-28)
  • Tekkoshocon VI, Tekkoshocon VI AMV Contest (2008-04-11)
  • Anime Central 2008, Anime Central 2008 AMV Contest (2008-05-16)
  • Anime Expo 2008, Anime Expo 2008 - Anime Music Video Contest (2008-07-03)
• Comments: Comments as seen on 2008-02-27 06:39:39:
  
  'Bustin is intended to be hands-down, in-your-face FUN Advent Children AMV, that's it - not an action flick, not a soap opera, not a badly lip-synced collection of one-liners that passes as a comedy AMV because people can get away with that in this AMV Hell world we live in - just a FUN Advent Children AMV. The Internet could certainly use more of them...
  
  So how did I come up with 'Bustin? Well, all I've ever wanted to do with Advent Children is turn it upside down, give it a good shake and see what falls out. Not many people do this, not many people even think it's worth doing, but I am determined to prove that, while AC has a very bad reputation for inspiring cookie-cutter AMVs, it doesn’t have to be that way. AC is NOT an AMV wasteland. Yes, its action/drama angle has been exhaustively covered in a rather narrow way, but its potential in other genres is rarely exploited. What this means is that there is still a lot of mileage to be gotten out of the footage if we can just get past how seriously it takes itself. In fact, as I hope 'Bustin illustrates, this very seriousness makes a fantastic springboard for all kinds of humorous scenarios, because it’s quite outrageous to manhandle such material in the first place.
  
  Because my concept depended heavily upon getting the most laughs out of AC that I possibly could, when it came down to a choice between making an action scene and making a funny scene, I deferred to the latter. It's extremely easy to be sucked into AC's allure and I had to restrain myself more than a few times when I got too hyped about making things look cool because, 9 times out of 10, it was at the expense of comedy. Fortunately, I got a freer pass to use AC's natural inclinations as the AMV progressed, because the Ghostbusters movie itself becomes more involved, more serious as it goes along - the plot falls into place one chunk of cheese at a time until things come down to the wire and you're cheering the guys on when they turn into bonafide heroes.
  
  And speaking of cheese...I tried to be cheddar-like with my editing not because I'm a fan of such things, but because it's part of the Ghostbusters experience. I suppose you could say the concept forced my hand in the editing department, which is what a concept should do. This AMV is actually not very representative the kind of editing I typically would choose, which partly explains why it took me so long to make. (What's in the credits was my little stab at instant self-gratification, as far as that goes, and my train of thought was basically "The heck with consistency, I'm going to throw together something that's FUN to work on!")
  
  Bustin Fun Facts:
  - I spent 4 months and over 200 hours on this AMV: about 160 hours for pure video editing and about 60 hours pre/post editing and graphic design. Software included a hefty portion of the Adobe Creative Suite - Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop - plus of course the AMVapp.
  
  - The dates which appear are accurate - to a point. They represent the month and day on which a particular graphic was originally created.
  
  - I did have permission to use the nicknames of the two individuals who "appear" in this AMV.
  
  - The Ghostbusters symbol is not consistently and left- or right-facing even on movie memorabilia. I went with a left-facing symbol because the handle of the Buster Sword wouldn't fit the other way.
  
  - "Inquirer" is properly spelled "Enquirer" so no, that was not a mistake on my part.
  
  - I have no idea what TNN stands for. I ripped off a Dirge of Cerberus FMV, if you're wondering why it looks so very familiar.
  
  - USA Today makes a marked number of appearances in the original Ghostbusters movie. I was quite amused to find that several bright blue things also appear during Advent Children's downtown attack sequence; you can still see a few of them in this AMV.
  
  - There is a need to take responsibility for something that is obviously not lip flap, so I have to state that I did try to lip sync several scenes. Other than picking a certain clip and placing it in a certain way on the timeline, however, I did absolutely nothing to affect how well it was synced...
  
  Many thanks to beta testers Amo-Chan (who gets lots of kudos for the line "We TOLD you not to cross the Lifestream!"), dokidoki, Emong and Knowname for their advice and support.
  
  Lyrics? We need lyrics? Oh all right, this song is a poster child for bad
  grammar and I couldn't figure them out myself until I looked them up...
  
  If there's something strange in your neighborhood
  Who you gonna call?
  Ghostbusters!
  If there's something weird and it don't look good
  Who you gonna call?
  Ghostbusters!
  
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  
  If you're seeing things running through your head
  Who can you call?
  Ghostbusters!
  
  An invisible man sleeping in your bed
  Oh, who you gonna call?
  Ghostbusters!
  
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  
  Who you gonna call?
  Ghostbusters!
  
  If you're all alone, pick up the phone
  And call
  Ghostbusters!
  
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  I hear it likes the girls
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
  
  Who you gonna call?
  Ghostbusters!
  
  If you've had a dose of a freaky ghost
  You'd better call
  Ghostbusters!
  
  Let me tell you something
  Bustin' makes me feel good
  
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  I ain't afraid of no ghost
  
  Don't get caught alone, oh no
  
  Ghostbusters!
  
  When it comes through your door
  Unless you just want some more
  I think you better call
  Ghostbusters!
  
  Who you gonna call
  Ghostbusters!....