Grey Pain On Waking

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:49 pm

This is how I was feeling one grey, rainy morning. That is all.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:11 pm

That's a depressing little sketch. I'm not sure I followed what was going on, but it was quite moody. The composition is pretty expected but worked well enough.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:36 pm

i'll get it, despite peacemaker being AIDS

*inverse* · Post by ***inverse*** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:10 pm

Oooh... very moody. Loved the Susumu angst ;P

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:07 pm

it was nice. i don't think anyone who hasn't seen the anime will know whats going on though

Aeri · Post by **Aeri** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:24 pm

I think I'd have to agree with Minion; if I hadn't watched Peacemaker then I doubt I would have gotten the full effect. But that's just how it is with emotion-driven pieces, and I think you did a good job getting the oppressive sort of sorrow across in this. Good job!

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:04 am

Holy geeze, the visual quality of this video is drop-dead *gorgeous*. That's the first thing I noticed.

The video itself was done very well. I had no idea what was going on (haven't seen Peacemaker), but the mood was captured really well and I really felt this. I think maybe you coulda done some more sync-wise, but what you do have is very nice.

4/5, great atmosphere

My only other complaint is that a 51 MB .mp4 for 1:30 seconds of video is really, REALLY big.

Emong · Post by **Emong** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:42 am

There's so much goodness you can do with slow melodic instrumental tracks but this video totally distorted the harmony, I'm afraid to say. The sync should have been better the "song" being an instrumental one with lots of melodies and piano keys to sync. Even if you used cross-fades only it would have been way better. The cuts were out of place, or at least they seemed like it to me.

The clip selection seemed random and I had difficulties getting into the mood as the sync was poor.. It looked like it could have had been a good video with better sync so the problem propably wasn't in the clip selection itself though. Unused potential for a good atmosphere.. Plus, even for an AMV using an instrumental song, it was too short to my liking :/

2/5 sry :/

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:26 am

I didn't really like it. The first 20 seconds or so were nice, but then it started to bore me. Would have need lots more synch to keep me interested. It was ok to watch for once, but I wont watch it again.

CrackTheSky wrote:Holy geeze, the visual quality of this video is drop-dead *gorgeous*. That's the first thing I noticed. My only other complaint is that a 51 MB .mp4 for 1:30 seconds of video is really, REALLY big.

Less File size usually also lowers the Quality of the Video, so I really don't care how big the file is as long as the Video Quality is sexy.

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:10 am

Thanks for the comments so far. Apologies about the filesize: x264 encoding is pretty crippled on a Mac. And yeah, it's definitely not a cut-on-every-note-and-beat video.

For those of you who sensed the emotion from it, I'm glad.