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Switchback/Dying Will = Fanime Best Action/3rd place Drama

Post by Kazemon15 » Sun May 10, 2009 9:07 pm

Yes, I suck at announcement titles!
XD

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Acen/Fanime 2009 Finalist.

Won Best Audience Action at Fanime.

This video had alot off things that influenced me to make it.
It all started when I watched TwilightChrono's Memories of Hate and Revenge 2, the song caught my interest after watching his video. While I was searching through the MEP thread, I saw the Celldweller MEP thread and noticed Switchback was not taken, so I decided to try out for it. I had recently bought and finished a Black Cat Boxset, so I said, why not? I put a few clips down and I really liked how it turned out.
During this time, I had yet to come up with an idea for Anime Expo, so I figured, why not make a full version of Switchback? And that's where we are.

I had to cut the song since it was way too long and I did not want to cut it the same way TC did in his video, so I mixed it up a little bit.

I had the whole video planned out, but when I put the clips down, it did not flow as well as it did in my head. A number of times in the video, I had to improvise, due to it not flowing well, but mostly due to the lack of action clips the series has. Some of the editing might not be perfect, but I did what I could to make it seem enjoyable. It was really fun to edit to, despite these complications. I hope you enjoy watching this as much as I enjoyed editing it.

I'd like to give a very special thanks to LittleAtari and Hagaren Viper for helping me with alot of issues. I'd also like to thank TwilightChrono for making his video which inspired me to make this one.

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Fanime Finalist.

Won 3rd Place Drama at Fanime

For some reason, the local upload would not show up. I waited over an hour and no one responded in the help section, so I just uploaded it directly. I do hope someone can help me figure out what’s wrong with the local though.

Local now available.

My new recently obsessed anime. When I saw on the org how little amvs this series has, I decided to make a few of my own. This anime really deserves some more fans. I thought the song Breath By Breaking Benjamin fit the story I was going for extremely well. I realize that the song calls for two points of view, but both points of view fit the main character, so i edited it as I thought it would match.

I tried to make the story as simple as I could, with a few hints within it for those who have watched the series. If no one can get the story by watching the video, the simple story is: Boy just lives happy times with his friends, suddenly, those times are shattered when his friends are attacked. Boy tries to save them and help them, but can't do anything. He suddenly gains a power and fights to protect them, but doesn't want the power because he ends up hurting people.

Special thanks to LittleAtari and Hagaren Viper for helping me with filtering.
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Re: Watch these amvs with your Dying Will! And don't Switchback!

Post by LittleAtari » Sun May 10, 2009 9:16 pm

Finally! Unfortunately, Switchback got killed by the projector and sound at Acen (none of the fades and overlays showed up correctly), but I'm glad I saw it before I went.

/gets Switchback to see credits and final encode

Also...I can DL Dying Will for some reason. Safari doesnt give me the option to save the page. It tries to stream it. Hopefully the local link will be up soon.

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Re: Watch these amvs with your Dying Will! And don't Switchback!

Post by Kazemon15 » Sun May 10, 2009 9:26 pm

LittleAtari wrote:Finally! Unfortunately, Switchback got killed by the projector and sound at Acen (none of the fades and overlays showed up correctly), but I'm glad I saw it before I went.

/gets Switchback to see credits and final encode

Also...I can DL Dying Will for some reason. Safari doesnt give me the option to save the page. It tries to stream it. Hopefully the local link will be up soon.
Yeah, thanks for all the help.

Hm, Dying Will *might* have been encoded a little wrong, if that's the case, I'll reupload it. But I did follow the script you gave me.

As for Switchback...the credits aren't all that fancy. My original idea went out the window when I couldn't rip Op 1 creditless.

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Re: Watch these amvs with your Dying Will! And don't Switchback!

Post by LittleAtari » Sun May 10, 2009 10:10 pm

Kazemon15 wrote: Hm, Dying Will *might* have been encoded a little wrong, if that's the case, I'll reupload it. But I did follow the script you gave me.
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Kazemon15 wrote:As for Switchback...the credits aren't all that fancy. My original idea went out the window when I couldn't rip Op 1 creditless.
I just like seeing my name.

I enjoyed both AMVs. Switchback is probably my favorite AMV of yours, but I will say that the pacing of Dying Will was better. Good Luck at Anime Expo with both of these :up:

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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by Hagaren Viper » Sun May 10, 2009 11:02 pm

Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will = Win. >3

Both of these have become my favorite vids by you, heheh. I can't really decide between the two, they are both really well made. And It's nice to see Switchback finally done, lol.

I'm HagarenViper and I approve of of these AMVs.

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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by Flame-X » Sun May 10, 2009 11:09 pm

I really enjoyed your Black Cat video. Definitely stood out at the acen contest, at least for me it did. This makes me wanna check out the anime. :up:

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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by NightHawk » Sun May 10, 2009 11:25 pm

I like.

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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by CodeZTM » Mon May 11, 2009 12:07 am

YAY! It's the ACEN rush! :D

/gets

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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by TwilightChrono » Mon May 11, 2009 12:38 am

HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

You finally got it up. Been waiting for this. Glad I inspired you XD

Ever since you showed this to me in it's early stages, I was waiting for you to finish it. Sadly, I wasn't able to attend ACEN but meh. We'll meet some other time.

Anyway, GETS!!!

4/5

EDIT: Interesting the way you cut it. Love it. KEEEEEEPPPPPEEEERRRRR.
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Re: Switchback - Acen 2009 + Dying Will

Post by Niwa » Mon May 11, 2009 12:42 am

Switchback was quite unfitting most of the time in my opinion, probably because of all the drama scenes involved in the action.

Some effects here and there wouldn't hurt either.

Although, some parts was nicely done :)
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