Surging Tides

[Xophilarus]

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-PSz41UMU

So I have been working on this video for about five months now haha, but anyways, this is a very special video to me because it basically symbolizes how I have grown as an editor in the past year. I challenged myself both on a story and technical level with this, and I am very happy with how it turned out. It has also been really nice editing with a Lauren Aquilina song again because her voice is just OMG AMAZING Q___Q. As far as the story for the video, I wanted it to be largely up for interpretation. A story can be seen there, but I don't feel like it needs to be read in a way in which there is only one story there. I was careful to leave certain things up for interpretation so each individual can kind of see the story that relates most to them so I hope everyone will enjoy that. I also wanted to make a romance/Toradora video that didn't feel like every other romance and Toradora video so I hope I was able to bring a "fresh" feeling into this video. Over all, I consider this project a huge success, and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out honestly. Making this video also helped constantly remind me about all the amazing people I have met and the amazing things I have been able to do in this past year, and I am extremely grateful and feel super lucky I have been able to experience all of the things I have experienced. Thank you everyone I have met through my editing experience and thank you everyone who has continued to support my editing. It means the world to me.

[Shin-AMV]

Da feels in dis video. Too Stronk.

[EllipseIris]

Your notes to the video were quite moving o_o
Its nice to hear how enthusiastic you are about your video. The aims you had, you could accomplish well, you built story, you improved technically, but in my opinion you chose the wrong track. The reason why this is not like every other toradora video is that the other editors could see through the story. What i want to point out that your video is too dramatic, and compared to the anime. Toradora is a charming and cheering love story. It has it's dramatic moments, but without them, the love in it would fade away and would appear to be a comedy, but underneath this really is a happy story, they needed time, but they found eachother, not like the rest of the characters, like Kitamura or Minori who end up being alone, sacrificing their feelings. That must suck a lot more, than being part of a process discovering love in the closest person to you... I wish you chose an anime that has more to do with the song, than this, this is why I believe that compared to Fidelity (that makes me cry like an idiot any single time i watch it), this video is a step backwards from the point of storytelling. BUT I want to praise your sense of drama, you have talent, you really can move hearts.
Keep it up!

[Xophilarus]

Shin - Tank yews, I try with them feels xP.

ElipseIris- thank you, I appreciate the points you had to say about it and I understand like the issues you had with it and knew that would bother some people. I wasnt trying to make it a video anout Toradora though because honestly this video is really personal for a number of reasons and the challenge I had when making it was basically to make video with a story that satisfies the perosnal story I wanted to tell for myself but I also wanted to do a video that could be for other people as well which added the challenge to make a story that wasnt clear cut so people watching would be able to relate to it in their own way. I agree I could have done this better because I think I should have derailed a bit more directly from the show to avoid people being "O_o?" About the song choice as well as the fact I totally antagonized Ami and such. Thank you so much for the advice though. It really did help me understand the story issues I knew were there somewhere but not exactly were and why. Glad you liked Fidelity so much, it always makes me happy to hear other editors tell me that since it was my first big project.

[Replay Studios]

good job ^^