Claymore - Love and hatred

nikolakis · Post by **nikolakis** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:33 pm

Video:Claymore - Love and hatred
Category: Action, Drama, Serious
Anime: Claymore
music:
00:00 - 15:00 Shadow of the Colossus - SoundTrack 07
15:00 - 48:00 Shadow of the Colossus - SoundTrack 20
48:00 - END Within Temptation - What Have You Done
Creator: Nikolakis

WARNING MANY SPOILERS

If you like take a look

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:00 pm

You realize that if you use the vidID tag, you'd get the same result without having to type all that?

Not bad. But, in the beginning, I thought there was an excessive use of the black flash or leaving spots between the clips, so that when you do see the next clip, it appears too short on the screen to really register. The scene selection pace also was faster or slower than what the music was doing, and, the clips themselves, when they were long enough to recieve focus, were rather plain for the music. I would suggest using some sort of effects, whether just a basic screen shake, color/brightness alterations or perception modifiers, presenting it from perhaps the eyes of a viewer, or from a 'angle', instead of just fighting.

All of this is in the beginning part, once you get to the music, the problems listed are still present but they're not as excessive I thought. Overall... perhaps I just need to see the series, but what I was seeing made no sense. It looked like random lyric sync, which with some sort of central theme besides violence might have worked in your favor, but with just random violence and menacing it's "What? Wait. What did I just watch? Besides tentacle eye sex." Had you done the full song and added in, if not a full story, at least something someone could follow as a explanation for the violence it might have also worked out well.

Overall though not too bad for random action.

nikolakis · Post by **nikolakis** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:42 pm

Orwell i suggest you to watch this anime, Claymore is really nice, not only for the good action scenes but basically its storyline is really good.

The lyrics are not random they are linked with the story but its really hard to understand without having seen claymore, when i am making amvs i always have in mind that ppl would known about it, I am not making trailers and as i said above this amv contains many spoilers! So only ppl already familiar with the anime watch it pls! I don't want this amv ruin claymore to anyone

I had to cut the song in half because I have a "bad habit" to edit a lot and with only 16 claymore episodes around, and with so few Teresa's scenes, i didn't have enough material to complete an Amv over 5 minutes.

About the effects you are right i should try out some on my next video but in many cases effects can make you lose at sound synchronization thats why i am not using many

About the tentacle eye sex, yes claymore is very extreme anime so every amv out of it would be the same.

Orwell thanks for your time you took looking into my amv and thanks for you comments, when you watch Claymore i hope you like this amv little more

Seska1973 · Post by **Seska1973** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:06 pm

Looks good. But at the beginning was it not a bit to fast?

okay, okay. Perhaps i don't like that cut speed. But effects where good.

But ,the end... its to sudden...
a bit slower speed with Temptaion should be perfect

And, Orwell are right. This Video is for "outsiders" not so good, while for Claymore addicts...(see my Org Profile here

I give you a 4/5

nikolakis · Post by **nikolakis** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:09 pm

Its really a shame that i couldn't complete the song and i had to cut it in half, i know it ends little strange but when i tried to make the song fade out, looked even stranger

Seska1973 thanks for your comments i am glad you like it, my next project won't be a half song again and with claymore footage once more