When We're Older - Your Name

[initial-t]

I was inspired to jump back into AMV creating after a 15 year hiatus (the dark days of DBZ/Linkin Park mashups) when I heard a local convention was looking for entries. Tossed this together over the weekend as a combination competition submission and Premiere refresher course (a lot has changed but still felt very familiar).

NOTE: the Eurobeat-laden studio intro is only temporary and WILL NOT be in future videos.

Open to any feedback on how to improve for future projects!

[Kireblue]

Welcome back! It's always nice to see that no matter how long someone steps away from the hobby, they can always return to it

In terms of your video, I think that some of scenes that didn't have a lot of natural movement in them would have benefited from a bit of ken burns effect (slight zoom/ pan outs). I also think some of your crossfades would have been better as simple hard cuts. Ironically, you mostly used hard cuts to bridge scenes of them at different locations, but when they were together, you used crossfades (like at the end). I kinda feel like you'd typically do the opposite (although I think that your choice of using hard cuts for the scenes of them apart was the right decision).

But anyway, this was still pretty good. Looking forward to seeing what you do next

[initial-t]

Welcome back! It's always nice to see that no matter how long someone steps away from the hobby, they can always return to it

In terms of your video, I think that some of scenes that didn't have a lot of natural movement in them would have benefited from a bit of ken burns effect (slight zoom/ pan outs). I also think some of your crossfades would have been better as simple hard cuts. Ironically, you mostly used hard cuts to bridge scenes of them at different locations, but when they were together, you used crossfades (like at the end). I kinda feel like you'd typically do the opposite (although I think that your choice of using hard cuts for the scenes of them apart was the right decision).

But anyway, this was still pretty good. Looking forward to seeing what you do next

Thanks for the feedback and good eye! I tried to be consistent with the type of transitions I used depending on the scene and even second-guessed some of the cross-fades that were hard cuts at one point.

I actually just learned about the Ken Burns Effect after submitting this video and browsing the forums so I'll have to do some experimenting with that for my next one.