Samurai's Soul
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Soul
- Joined: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:30 am
Samurai's Soul
After about a month of inspiration I gave birth equals 0
this AMV.
Like Anime I decided to use Sword of stranger.
The story is simple practically the samurai fighting
finds its spirit =)
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Taite
- Joined: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:33 am
- Location: Colorado
Re: Samurai's Soul
I like the general message you tried to convey in your video, but there were a few technical problems, in my opinion.
**The shaking on the very first fight scene in your video was really just unnecessary.
There is already enough impact in the fighting scenes. A small something each time you hear that one drum beat would have been better, in my opinion.
**It wasn't that your masks were bad, it's just that they were unneeded. They didn't really add anything to the video. If you deleted them and did something with the actual scenes themselves, I think it would have had more of a significant impact on the video overall. (I'm talking about the first two grayscale masks in your video here.)
**As for the 3 fight scenes you combined after that, it was pretty good. Still, a tad too much shaking. If you look at the right side and bottom of your video, you can even see the shakes going many pixels away from the picture, leaving black. That's not good. Just watch out for that stuff next time.
**At 1:32, I noticed you tried to do some overlays matching the drum. To make this look cleaner, make the clips on top shorter, rather than being longer to catch the whole beat of the drum, if you know what I mean. Also, I couldn't even tell what was being overlapped after a few glances, but is that an arm or something? I'd suggest finding something that you can see and that isn't as 'random.'
EDIT: I actually noticed just now that the clip that followed matched the overlays. I guess it's not that much of a problem then, but I'd highly recommend making the overlays something you can decipher next time.
**Still too much shaking, even after Nanami won. That last mask on the sword wasn't that bad, but there were dark borders around it that I'd suggest removing. You want to make the pictures flashing behind the sword almost melt into the picture, but that border set those clips away and made it too noticeable to be pleasing.
What was really good though was that there weren't large clips of action stuck in there. You cut them so they synced with the song really well (It was just that dang shaking that threw me off.) I really like how you tried to show the samurai fighting to find his spirit, and I thought that was a really good idea. It was okay for a first video here. Work on finding the impact within the clips, and see what you can add to it. 2/5
**The shaking on the very first fight scene in your video was really just unnecessary.
There is already enough impact in the fighting scenes. A small something each time you hear that one drum beat would have been better, in my opinion. **It wasn't that your masks were bad, it's just that they were unneeded. They didn't really add anything to the video. If you deleted them and did something with the actual scenes themselves, I think it would have had more of a significant impact on the video overall. (I'm talking about the first two grayscale masks in your video here.)
**As for the 3 fight scenes you combined after that, it was pretty good. Still, a tad too much shaking. If you look at the right side and bottom of your video, you can even see the shakes going many pixels away from the picture, leaving black. That's not good. Just watch out for that stuff next time.
**At 1:32, I noticed you tried to do some overlays matching the drum. To make this look cleaner, make the clips on top shorter, rather than being longer to catch the whole beat of the drum, if you know what I mean. Also, I couldn't even tell what was being overlapped after a few glances, but is that an arm or something? I'd suggest finding something that you can see and that isn't as 'random.'
EDIT: I actually noticed just now that the clip that followed matched the overlays. I guess it's not that much of a problem then, but I'd highly recommend making the overlays something you can decipher next time.
**Still too much shaking, even after Nanami won. That last mask on the sword wasn't that bad, but there were dark borders around it that I'd suggest removing. You want to make the pictures flashing behind the sword almost melt into the picture, but that border set those clips away and made it too noticeable to be pleasing.
What was really good though was that there weren't large clips of action stuck in there. You cut them so they synced with the song really well (It was just that dang shaking that threw me off.) I really like how you tried to show the samurai fighting to find his spirit, and I thought that was a really good idea. It was okay for a first video here. Work on finding the impact within the clips, and see what you can add to it. 2/5
