I've used 3 generic songs. A Linkin Park song (from Reanimation, which is used much less), an Evanescence song, and an Offspring song. Wow, that's amazing. I've also used Sigur Ros and Mushroom head, which have much fewer videos used to them. What the hell does a generic source have to do with the quality of a video? I pick a source i like, and a song i like.
you forgot mad world.
generic songs everyone does, i believe you critiqued me for using a song i liked in the chat? hypocritical again.
You are so right. I should make myself better by using a really unnused source, because that will just make my video fantastic.
I said that? I said that using generic sources makes the video generic.
Oh, i know what else i can do to improve it. I can download the footage. Yeh, because i'm a cheap arse.
Going to college does kinda take the money outta ya. Sorry that I can't be "arsed" to just drop out of college to make an AMV. :O
Oh, oh, oh, then i can use really bad blur effects on the beats.
Any other suggestions of what to use? It's a little film technique you learn called "not overpowering the video", or in other words, fitting the effects with the music. The points where I used the blur effects were low-key in the music, so I used low key effects.
During a slow drama scene in a movie, do you see shit going insane with effects? No, you see maybe a few small effects at most.
Oh oh oh, and then i'll complain whenever somone gives me an opinion i don't like, and completely ignore people who give me honest opinions.
I did? That's funny because I featured an opinion that basically trashes my video as one of the two opinions you can view on my videos.
Also, I ignored your opinion for two reasons:
1) you DIRECTLY said that storyline should be evident in a video without having to read the description. That alone made you completely not even worth my time.
in ANY form of media, whether it's books, or movies, or music, or whatever, you have to READ about it first to GET the point of it. 90% of music has some sort of hidden point behind the lyrics, a meaning that isn't obvious at the beginning of the song and usually never is unless you research about it from what the band's talked about it.
So, were you to say, listen to a song called Walkie Talkie, from a music video game some of you have probably played called DDR, you might assume due to it's lyrics that it's just some random crap and pass it off.
However if you actually RESEARCHED the song you would realize that the song is actually about getting turned on and erections. Funny huh? Had you actually read the things I did to the video, I would value your opinion, negative or positive.
2) You said that my video did not have "obvious" storyline. Really, how you can't pick up that Ryoma is growing up through his tennis matches, added to the lyrics (from a song you're obviously familiar from according to the chat) is beyond me.
Even with that though, you quoted "Whisper of the Beast" to be an AMV that had a great storyline to it without having to read the information.
That AMV is in *german* and thus lyrics are out the window right off the get-go to 99% of us. Second, that AMV only takes *a few* episodes, goes crazy on adobe after-effects, and remixes those episodes. Fair enough, that video is kick ass, i'll admit, but definitely not for it's storyline, but for it's effects and technical abilities.
Had you actually read the information on my video AGAIN, you would realize that I remixed the entire SERIES of prince of tennis, not just a few episodes, so your point about not having storyline or not having technical ability is moot right there.
The fact is, you're just biased against this series to begin with, saying that it's "dbz with tennis", and in fact, even after I explained to you that the series is actually quite realistic at the start, you 100% failed to even open your mind to this concept, proving again that you are hypocritical and totally unwilling to listen to critique about yourself whatsoever.
You say you've watched the series, yet you wont' say how many episodes, and considering what you call "watching" a series, i'd bet it would be some random episode in the middle.
Of course there will be people who don't like this series, and that's fine. But to just watch it and immediately hate it because of the series that it is, without even giving it a chance, when you haven't even SEEN the series barely at all, is just stupidity.
And before you say "oh well you said naruto and linkin park and such is generic" I say that because THEY ARE. Everyone in that chat knew about how Whisper of The Beast remixes those episodes because THEY'VE ALL known the plot of Naruto for years, and you said you haven't seen an episode, which I honestly think is complete bullshit, but whatever, I know you still must know the storyline if *you didn't read the info about the AMV yet watched it*, otherwise you'd have no idea that the episodes were remixed....
which is EXACTLY what happened with mine. You hadn't watched the series so you had no idea the episodes were remixed, not to mention you obviously have a bias against tennis/PoT in general, so that's why I didn't take your opinion seriously, however Ileia I did take seriously, which is why her opinion is up on my page, because she still wrote out an opinion and said to me that she admits she did not read the information, and realized that was a *bad* thing to do.
Then i'll start accusing other people's videos of being crap because they have few hits.
Well, considering that a video made almost a year ago has only about 100 hits, and said person is accusing me of making bad videos, that would be quite hypocritical of him, wouldn't it? results matter, whether you like it or not. If the video wasn't crap, wouldn't it have more hits than just 100 over a year span?
Finally i'll finish up by telling someone else their videos suck because they have occasionally used some generic sources.
Again, did I say they sucked? I said you really shouldn't be talking trash about my videos if all you've got for creative originality in song or anime choice is just stuff that everyone else and their mother has used, but some of those videos have been good, as is the example with a hunter x hunter video that's at the top of my favorites, using a Good Charlotte song.
Yeh, my video would bound to to be the best thing ever then. Oh wait, and then i can write a 10 page useless video description that is supposed to tell the story because i'm too completely and utterly useless to be able to express it in a video.
Actually, according to a good 40 or so other people whom i've never even met in real life, so they have no bias towards me, I told the story perfectly, even without having any prior information on the subject.
Of course they didn't get the little nuances and such that only a fan of the series would get, but they still understood the general plot line being shown and how the lyrics matched up to the scenes.
Really, you said you knew that song, so how could you not see the obvious lyric matches? You're just horrible at seeing implied things, is all there is to it.
If you can't link "your hard times are ahead" to Ryoma getting hit in the face with a tennis ball or getting burned on the side of the face, or if you can't link "change everything you are" to Ryoma's tennis style evolving, or "your last chance has arrived" to getting on a plane and leaving the country, all scenes in the video, then really, I don't know what to tell you.
do I need to get a gigantic marker in the video and write LOL RYOMA IS HITTING A TENNIS BALL for you? :O
anyways thanks for letting me pretty much annhilate your post, i've got a road trip tomorrow at 2, i'll check by and if you wanna post again be my guest, i'll break it down like this again, hypocrite
have fun.
Oh, and;
Yeh, now i'm sure to be fantastic.
Yeh, nice try at sarcasm.
you think after that thread you might have remembered the lack of an edit button and at least TRIED to get everything right the first time. 10 posts in the first hour? how many of those were yours?
i've actually played tennis quite a bit when i was younger, and enjoyed it quite a lot.