purplepolecat wrote:
The lip sync was decent quality, but it bugs me when there's more than one character doing the singing (unless it's a duet or there's a chorus or something like that). It spoils the "illusion". The song is pretty apt for the Rock x Revy pairing though.
Great that you liked my audio-video pairing.
As the author I'd like to explain what bugs you a bit.
Choosing characters to lip-sync wasn't random and it's also supported sometimes by lyric-sync. First of all you have to get that Rock is kind of Revy's "bitch" (for BL viewers it should be rather obvious). It's exaggeration, but you can say that Revy is more masculine than Rock after all. (I am not saying he's a crybaby, fortunately, it's definitely not the case here, but many animes like such awful way of story development.) Knowing that it doesn't really matter who's singing in AMV, because relationship is symmetrical to some extent, but I still tried to match words with better suiting chars (we know that Revy's "urge" for sex with Rock is possibly greater, etc.).
And I did fast switching actually only twice at 02:01 and 2:09 (these scenes are connected: Revy's conclusion - Breakdown? With me? No fuckin' way!), however IMO it works there. Why? Plant is the lead vocal, but there are also backing vocals, mostly heard eactly in second half - I am just exploiting that. One more thing. Plant voice is so powerful in the first chorus singing (The Yellow Flag yelling scene 0:33+) that you might be even confused about how many voices you hear (i.e. isn't this chorus sung by chorus?), so Rock-Revy duo shouldn't bothering you there.
YMMV and I am fine with this. Just wanted you to know why I haven't chosen one vocal per character canon solution.
purplepolecat wrote:Other than that I really liked it, it was original (you never see Led Zep used for AMVs), well edited, and the pacing was good.
a-m-v.org database shows 62 vids and there is much more out there, at least I think so. But yes, it looks that this year Leviathan is so far the only premiered one with Zeppelin's BGM. There were only 2 such vids in 2009, 3 in 2008, 3 in 2007, 8 in 2006, 16 in 2005, 15 in 2004, 2 in 2003, 6 in 2002, 4 in 2001. There are 2 not premiered yet AMVs. Led Zeppelin deserves more and I'll happily make another vid with Led Zep in the future.
Thanks for the comment, purplepolecat!
---
I am still open for critique. I like constructive criticism (as in above one) and I am one of those preferring harsh words than patting. If anything bothers you in this vid just write it here (or as an opinion). You don't have to limit yourself to one sentence expressing just like or dislike.
I liked it. 
)
