First time posting. I didn't realize this was one way to get or give opinions. Usually just did it using the submit opinion option on someone's AMV. If anyone wants to do that "Opinion Exchange Form" I'm down. I'm assuming I'd just go on your page and submit an opinion or multiple on your AMVs?
Somewhat long but here is a description of the AMV, thought process and where I myself felt there might've been issues.
Spoiler :
So, this is the latest AMV I've made. I heard the song and had some ideas for anime like Another, Tasogare Amnesia, and possibly some other horror/ghost anime to fit the theme/general feel of the song. In the end, I went for Mushishi because the second half of the song really exaggerated the spiritual side of ghosts or creatures like that.
The actual editing ended up being very simple. I've never edited mushisi and going into it I just went with intuition that it would match so didn't have too many specific scenes or stories stringed together beforehand. It's basically dissolves and fade to blacks (and one smooth zoom in) and using the scenes to match certain musical parts like the sub bass hit in the chorus and using scenes that had already had a time effect on them in the anime (first chorus for example, when the rain slows down) and one speed ramp in the second chorus. Also it was slightly weird to use Mushishi (first season) and the second season since the second was in HD, don't know if it was noticeable at points though.
A few problems I notice myself is that the second verse and second chorus kind of felt a little more phoned in or less inspired. As an example in the first verse when she sings, "Wherever I go, whoever I meet", I thought of his travels and had scenes to go with that. But something about the tempo or continuity of the second verse felt off even after getting scenes that felt passable. It was sort of hard to tell when to use general scenes of Mushi versus things more specific, like I tried to match the lyrics of "sea" and "eye" to well, scene or scenes of the sea and something with the eye (in this case I used the thing where Ginko gave an eye to the girl though I could've used Ginko's backstory as well). But maybe I could've just done what I did after that and used more general scenes of Mushi kind of just doing stuff in their environment. The only problem with that is if it would be repetitive even if it would end maybe being more uniform.
The second chorus I think I just felt somewhat uninspired. Basically just went with a water theme if you want to even call it that and chose scenes where characters were underwater. I think it only sort of worked out because of some of the instrumentals in the background sort of having the sound of bubbles but they felt sort of longer compared to first chorus with there essentially being only two cuts that collectively equaled to about 17 seconds of time and didn't have too much to do with lyrics or what happened before. The uniformity of it I think is the only thing that saved it, the fact that both were in the water. The second iteration of the line "some kind of ghoul" I think maybe didn't hit as hard as the first. The decision to cut off after the bass hit instead of on it like in the first chorus maybe did something, I'm not sure. After that I just did a little montage of some cool scenes like a mini sakuga.
So I wonder are they effects or whatnot that you would use for a certain part of the song? Are there any moments you felt maybe lost your interest or dragged on too long for maybe felt too short? Any other critiques or things you noticed?
The actual editing ended up being very simple. I've never edited mushisi and going into it I just went with intuition that it would match so didn't have too many specific scenes or stories stringed together beforehand. It's basically dissolves and fade to blacks (and one smooth zoom in) and using the scenes to match certain musical parts like the sub bass hit in the chorus and using scenes that had already had a time effect on them in the anime (first chorus for example, when the rain slows down) and one speed ramp in the second chorus. Also it was slightly weird to use Mushishi (first season) and the second season since the second was in HD, don't know if it was noticeable at points though.
A few problems I notice myself is that the second verse and second chorus kind of felt a little more phoned in or less inspired. As an example in the first verse when she sings, "Wherever I go, whoever I meet", I thought of his travels and had scenes to go with that. But something about the tempo or continuity of the second verse felt off even after getting scenes that felt passable. It was sort of hard to tell when to use general scenes of Mushi versus things more specific, like I tried to match the lyrics of "sea" and "eye" to well, scene or scenes of the sea and something with the eye (in this case I used the thing where Ginko gave an eye to the girl though I could've used Ginko's backstory as well). But maybe I could've just done what I did after that and used more general scenes of Mushi kind of just doing stuff in their environment. The only problem with that is if it would be repetitive even if it would end maybe being more uniform.
The second chorus I think I just felt somewhat uninspired. Basically just went with a water theme if you want to even call it that and chose scenes where characters were underwater. I think it only sort of worked out because of some of the instrumentals in the background sort of having the sound of bubbles but they felt sort of longer compared to first chorus with there essentially being only two cuts that collectively equaled to about 17 seconds of time and didn't have too much to do with lyrics or what happened before. The uniformity of it I think is the only thing that saved it, the fact that both were in the water. The second iteration of the line "some kind of ghoul" I think maybe didn't hit as hard as the first. The decision to cut off after the bass hit instead of on it like in the first chorus maybe did something, I'm not sure. After that I just did a little montage of some cool scenes like a mini sakuga.
So I wonder are they effects or whatnot that you would use for a certain part of the song? Are there any moments you felt maybe lost your interest or dragged on too long for maybe felt too short? Any other critiques or things you noticed?