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• Member: jal0021
• Title: After the Rain
• Premiered: 2002-02-14
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Angelic Layer OST Ameagari (After the Rain)
• Anime:
  • To Heart
• Comments: **REMASTERED AUGUST 2002 -- Better editing, better quality, better everything.**
  
  This is my first video, a short overview of To Heart that focuses primarily on the relationship between Akari, Hiro, and Shiho. My original idea was to create a trailer of sorts for the series, but I ditched my storyboard fairly soon into the editing process and sculpted a narrative instead. Personally, I feel this was a good decision.
  
  While this is a short video by AMV standards (only 2 minutes long), I think I managed to tell enough of the story behind To Heart to where the video will make sense to anyone who has yet to see the series. The relationship between the three main characters is illustrated through flashbacks and key events that move the story along as the video progresses. Fans of the series need not fret, for the other characters show up as well...it's just that the focus is on Akari, Hiro, and Shiho.
  
  And yes, the action and story does loosely follow the song lyrics, even if they are in Japanese. It's a special treat. There are some subtle story elements in the video that work out very nicely...I won't spoil the surprise by explaining everything, though. Watch it and come to your own conclusions.
  
  Source footage is from DVD. Editing done in Premiere 6.0, and MPEG encode done using TMPGEnc. Total editing time was about 16 hours.
  
  For a first video, I was quite satisfied with the end result. As much fun as I had editing, I'm sure this is the first of many more videos to come.