RahXephon : Cemetery Drive

Everywhere and Everyone · Post by **Everywhere and Everyone** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:45 pm

Asahina and Ayato's love story is, in my eyes, one of the most tragic I've ever seen in an anime. It's strange how their love seems so real, even though Ayato and Haruka are sort of meant for one another. I personally feel that both Asahina and Ayato shared the same love, no matter how short lived it turned out to be - whether or not they were destined for each other hardly seems to matter.

Song: Cemetery Drive
Artist: My Chemical Romance
Anime: RahXephon (With Spoilers)

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:09 pm

Lucky for you, this is one of the few MCR songs I really like. Will report back later.

Emong · Post by **Emong** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:28 pm

That had some solid re-telling going on. Well, I suppose so. I haven't see the anime. Anyway, that means your story-telling was interesting and made sense. Your own work doesn't show here that much, really, and that bothered me the most along with the visible lack of any kind of technical sync.

Anyways, nice video. I'd rate it 3/5

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:47 pm

Ok, first of all, WHY are you compressing to MPEG? XviD and x264 compression both yield much, MUCH higher quality, as well as much, much lower filesizes. If you don't know how to do this, read this front to back, because the quality in this video is laughably bad.

Secondly, this video had no flow, whatsoever. The song didn't even really match up very well; the general theme did, but the lyrics were not fit for the story you were telling. You really could and should have paid stronger attention to the beats of the song and made more beat sync; there was only one real place where there was any, right between the first verse and chorus, after that the scene changes were random and didn't match up with the music at all.

Lastly, your storytelling was a mess. I've seen RahXephon, hell I've even made a video with this exact concept (though I'm not claiming it's better or worse than this), and this video confused me. I don't get why you showed Asahina getting killed, and then showed her again later in the video, as if she's still alive. If they were supposed to be memories, you could have at least added a black-and-white filter for clarity. This story went all over the place from what I could tell, and I just couldn't follow it. If you don't know what happens in the anime, chances are you're going to have a tough time figuring this one out.

Basically, this video's a huge mess and several steps down from your other RahXephon video.

1/5

Everywhere and Everyone · Post by **Everywhere and Everyone** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:36 pm

Thank you both for the feedback. ^-^

Ok, first of all, WHY are you compressing to MPEG? XviD and x264 compression both yield much, MUCH higher quality, as well as much, much lower filesizes.

I probably should've. XD.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:40 pm

I tend to agree with Crack The Sky. I saw your other video and was amazed by the level of editing, and here we have something much lower.

First of all, let's move back into the XVid world, and work more on sync.

1.50/5.00

I know you can do much better.