Claymore - Sonata (Instrumental Compendium)

[Arcwave]

Video: Claymore - Sonata
Category: Action, Instrumental, Sentimental, Serious
Anime: Claymore
Song: I'm Listening
Artist: James Newton Howard
Creator: Arcwave

I typically don't make AMV's, but after listening to such gorgeous music by none other than James Newton Howard himself, I had to express the emotion to film. I'm an editor at a production company, so doing this was rather fun. Please enjoy!

Special Thanks to Varese Sarabande &
Everyone at Soundtrack Music Associates

[Yarry]

You should consider uploading it in some other way. I'd love to see it, and comment on it, but upload it on the site please

[Arcwave]

You should consider uploading it in some other way. I'd love to see it, and comment on it, but upload it on the site please

OK, I fixed it. You should be able to see it on the LOCAL stream now. Thanks!

[Yarry]

God I'm gonna sound like an ass now :S Especially since I made you reupload it.

The video was very poor quality, tiny resolution (yet the file is still rather large ~50mb). Besides this, the video was heavily interlaced, something that you ought to have taken care of.

Which file did you edit with? It sure looks like you edited with a lossy file, and forgot to work with huff/lagarith.

With that said, I can see that you're an editor since it's easy to feel you're trying to tell us a story with the clips and mood you set, however I feel the video is long, and perhaps a bit dull, although the music was beautiful

Technical, you have much to learn. And never show footage of someone talking, when you can't hear what she's saying

On a final note, I loved the concept, the idea as a whole and I love the anime

[Arcwave]

I agree with you 80% about the technical aspect. I didn't know the responses would be so professional. You guys seem to know what you want; which is good.

However, I could have easily rendered a progressive 24p version. I possess the knowledge and equipment to do so. Like I said, not much dedicated work went into this project... and it was difficult finding scenes without the mouth movement that I needed to portray my initial vision (the interaction between Clare & Theresa). Therefore, I think the scenes were appropriate considering the context. I've shown this to many other AMV communities and all have been very positive, but I admire your honest opinion and willingness to encourage a better outcome.

I didn't want to create a conventional AMV. My direction was to bring more of a film look set to music (if that makes any sense?). But being new to this forum and the AMV realm in general, yes, I do have tons to learn.

Thanks for your thoughts!

UPDATE: I'm thinking about going back and working with what you said about the moving mouths. I gave it some thought, watched it again, and you're right... it doesn't look very good. With some smooth looping of scenes I think I can make it work. Curse you! You had to get me in this mode now! Hehe. Although I'll leave the content mostly untouched. Cheers!