Shokugeki no Soma「AMV」Rebels Vs. Central - Régiment de Cuisine (Skillet - Hero)

[DiggerShelduck]

this is my second amv
hope you like it
critics welcome

[Kionon]

this is my second amv
hope you like it
critics welcome

Moved this to AMV Announcements.

This concept is really hilarious. A super serious rock ballad about heroes and... it's an anime about celebrity chefs that provide orgasmic tastes to a panel of Japanese talents. This is a rock solid idea.

There are three major issues I have: visual quality, cut length, scene selection.

Visual quality is just... There's no way to sugar coat this... bad. It's 2018, and this was uploaded in "1080p at 60FPS" but it's neither that resolution nor framerate. There is considerable pixelation, smoothing, and banding even at the normal YouTube embed size. There is that strange use of letterboxing and there's the watermark which says ヴィネイfor some really strange reason. These are pretty common beginner mistakes due to... improper methods of source acquisition. They can be easily rectified by using a better starting source.

Most of your scenes were simply too long. This is one of the major reasons why the video doesn't remain funny. Without a much faster and harder pace of editing, the joke is understood in the first line of the song.

Finally, this is a series that seems like it has many, many great scenes that could be juxtaposed with the lyrics to keep the joke funny and provide for a complete and coherent comedy/parody video, but many of the scenes aren't specifically tied to the lyrics upon which they are overlaid. This is the other major reason the video doesn't remain funny. We get a very generalised concept of the joke early on, and that same generalised concept remains for the entire video. Having unique, specific examples of this concept from lyric to lyric would keep us laughing.

Again, this is a solid idea, an absolute gem of an idea. Don't abandon it. There's a diamond here, it's just very much "in the rough."

[seasons]

The scene length and general slow pace of this video, in contrast to the combination of the over the top visuals and the bombast of the song created a...surreal feeling that I don't know if the editor intended or not. Which I guess is my way of saying that while I don't really care for this kind of AMV, it's not what interests me or what I want to see more of, I enjoyed this as it kind of went through the motions but had this uncanny sort of feel to it that felt weird. I really don't know how to explain it.

The watermark was the big distraction for me, they put those things on for a reason, because they do draw attention away from the visuals on the screen and make the original work very inferior to the original. I'm not going to lie, I appreciated the idea in this video and actually found the editing pretty clean and competent and watchable, but I almost can't even rate this because I don't even feel like I watched the real AMV, just a copy of it or something. Mind you, with all these complaints I still watched the whole video and I almost never do that when it comes to watermarked AMVs. Many other viewers won't care about this stuff and will tell you so, but that's just me.

[Kireblue]

I think that Season and Kionon hit on a lot of the major issues with this vid, so I'll just leave you with the link to the tutorial and guides section of the forums viewforum.php?f=145

I plan to add more to that section over the next few weeks, but for now, the "So You Want To Be A *GOOD* Anime Music Video Editor?" is a really good resource for learning how to improve your sync. And the "Roller Coaster Guide/Theory" is good for structuring your video. Everyone should definitely read over them at least once.

[DiggerShelduck]

this is my second amv
hope you like it
critics welcome

Moved this to AMV Announcements.

This concept is really hilarious. A super serious rock ballad about heroes and... it's an anime about celebrity chefs that provide orgasmic tastes to a panel of Japanese talents. This is a rock solid idea.

There are three major issues I have: visual quality, cut length, scene selection.

Visual quality is just... There's no way to sugar coat this... bad. It's 2018, and this was uploaded in "1080p at 60FPS" but it's neither that resolution nor framerate. There is considerable pixelation, smoothing, and banding even at the normal YouTube embed size. There is that strange use of letterboxing and there's the watermark which says ヴィネイfor some really strange reason. These are pretty common beginner mistakes due to... improper methods of source acquisition. They can be easily rectified by using a better starting source.

Most of your scenes were simply too long. This is one of the major reasons why the video doesn't remain funny. Without a much faster and harder pace of editing, the joke is understood in the first line of the song.

Finally, this is a series that seems like it has many, many great scenes that could be juxtaposed with the lyrics to keep the joke funny and provide for a complete and coherent comedy/parody video, but many of the scenes aren't specifically tied to the lyrics upon which they are overlaid. This is the other major reason the video doesn't remain funny. We get a very generalised concept of the joke early on, and that same generalised concept remains for the entire video. Having unique, specific examples of this concept from lyric to lyric would keep us laughing.

Again, this is a solid idea, an absolute gem of an idea. Don't abandon it. There's a diamond here, it's just very much "in the rough."

Thanks for this review
and also thank you for investing your time in watching the video and also writing this review.
I hope that I will improve in editing and scene selections and implement in my upcoming amvs.

[DiggerShelduck]

I think that Season and Kionon hit on a lot of the major issues with this vid, so I'll just leave you with the link to the tutorial and guides section of the forums viewforum.php?f=145

I plan to add more to that section over the next few weeks, but for now, the "So You Want To Be A *GOOD* Anime Music Video Editor?" is a really good resource for learning how to improve your sync. And the "Roller Coaster Guide/Theory" is good for structuring your video. Everyone should definitely read over them at least once.

Thank you for the reply
I'll read them once I get time

[DiggerShelduck]

The scene length and general slow pace of this video, in contrast to the combination of the over the top visuals and the bombast of the song created a...surreal feeling that I don't know if the editor intended or not. Which I guess is my way of saying that while I don't really care for this kind of AMV, it's not what interests me or what I want to see more of, I enjoyed this as it kind of went through the motions but had this uncanny sort of feel to it that felt weird. I really don't know how to explain it.

The watermark was the big distraction for me, they put those things on for a reason, because they do draw attention away from the visuals on the screen and make the original work very inferior to the original. I'm not going to lie, I appreciated the idea in this video and actually found the editing pretty clean and competent and watchable, but I almost can't even rate this because I don't even feel like I watched the real AMV, just a copy of it or something. Mind you, with all these complaints I still watched the whole video and I almost never do that when it comes to watermarked AMVs. Many other viewers won't care about this stuff and will tell you so, but that's just me.

I'll try not to include watermark for my next amvs
and thanks for watching it