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• Member: Phantasmagoriat
• Title: Easy to Break
• Premiered: 2008-11-07
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
• Songs:
  • In Flames Lord Hypnos
  • Soilwork overload
• Anime:
  • Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (OAV)
• Comments: Comments as seen on 2008-11-07 01:19:20:
  
  
  
  Announcement Thread:
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  About:
  I can't stress enough how good this turned out compared to what I expected. Originally, I just wanted to edit something with some sort of "metalish" type music to use up the Street Fighter DVD sitting on my shelf. It has some decent footage I have to admit, and the movie is barely 45 minutes long, so why not use up all the footage in an action video and call it complete? So that's how I approached it, and I ended up using a song by Soilwork, which is a pretty decent band to gain my respect; however, they are a little more mainstream compared to my tastes in metal... so honestly, I wasn't overly concerned with butchering the amv and ruining the song. I find that amusing since I'm listening to the band more often now.
  
  The carefree nature of my approach turned out to be a good thing. I just kinda edited for the sake of doing it, and finished in one day. But that was just the Soilwork section [first 2 minutes]. Then looking at it, I realized my edits followed the storyline pretty good, so it would have been a really crappy ending if I stopped there. That's when I started looking through my music collection for something that would do justice to the work so far. I'd been itching to use In Flames for a while now, and when the breakdown in the song Lord Hypnos came up, I thought it was perfect-- Powerful, progressive, with a melancholy edge, and culminating into an uplifting thrash session that any metalhead can appreciate. All beginning in silence.
  
  From there, the songs were blended together, and I finished off the remaining footage just as the movie laid out; switching to widescreen AR, and adding various effects to capture a cinematic style that tries to emphasize the mood. At the end of the day, I didn't really like the movie that much, but the words "...we are fragile// easy to break// but sometimes we forget..." sum up my thoughts of the movie, whether that's what it was going for or not.
  
  
  Technical:
  -Made with Magix MEP 10 and the GIMP
  -Local HQ 720x480 x264.mp4 [42MB]
  -indirect LQ 576x432 XviD.avi [51MB]
  -use VLC or CCCP for playback
  
  as always, ANY feedback would be appreciated!