My first AMV...PLEASE comment!
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My first AMV...PLEASE comment!
This my first AMV, but I like it....
Please comment and rate it so that I know what was bad/good!
Dowload:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=155740
Steam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C2BSAVnECo
hope you enjoy it!
Please comment and rate it so that I know what was bad/good!
Dowload:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=155740
Steam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C2BSAVnECo
hope you enjoy it!
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My reaction was very sedate. I didn't hate it. Nor did it really move me. I'm rather indifferent to it. Not much of this is your fault.
Background on me, and the intertextual context I brought with me your video:
I am rather indifferent to Cowboy Bebop, and most of its vids that aren't made by one Elizabeth Kirkindall (her "At the End of the Day" is a true classic). Although there are exceptions, and one these happens to be "Last Stop In This Town" by Cosmic Mule which reverses a lot of footage, and so my mind automatically compared your video to that video, despite the differences in song choice, and to some degree, mood. My viewing was further complicated by the fact I just saw another video with this same exact song before viewing your video, and it was a very, very powerful one.
Technical Aspects:
1) Credits - I really dislike it when credits are overlaid onto the actual video track. You should have an opening bumper or an ending bumper with this information. Besides you cannot enter videos into most cons that have credits in the actual video track. In addition, they lacked proficiency and looked, honestly, horrible.
2) Windows Media - Okay, I'm guessing you did this in Windows Movie Maker. That's fine, but I've seen some nicely compressed stuff come out of WMM, even if it is rare. You should try to export out of your editor, ANY editor, as close to lossless as you can. Lossless means the footage is quality "loss" "less." Not losing quality during compression. At the very least, you can use a limited lossy codec, I believe that WMM has access to DV, no? If so, export out that and drop it into VDubMod and compress using XviD. If you want to make it a nice shiny MP4, we can go over the details for that elsewhere.
3) Aspect Ratio/Cropping - Despite being close to 4:3, it's not because you didn't crop the side black bars. You need to get rid of those, and resize your video (BEFORE YOU EDIT) to the more standard 640x480. You can tell your aspect ratio is wrong by looking at the scene before Spike falls out the window; the stained glass window is egg shaped. It should be perfectly round.
Stylistic Aspects:
1) Concept - I think the concept is a good one, and I think the song choice and the anime choice do fit together. I would argue you could have done a much better job in executing the concept before release.
2) Focus - I really didn't feel this video was about Vicious. This video was about Spike. About his relationship with Vicious, and the other relationships he had during and after their falling out. This is a character profile of Spike and how often his mind returns what he thinks is the mistakes he made, and how he wishes he could do them over. This is a good concept, as stated above.
3) Scene Choice - Overall, a good selection, however, the ones that focused on Vicious and not on Spike with Vicious really hurt, rather than helped, the impact. Despite this being labeled a Vicious video, as stated above, your editing really says otherwise, and I think your editing has the right focus. This is about Spike, so you needed to really keep the scene selection going with that in mind, and show all the times Vicious and Spike have run into to each other. The scenes of Vicious alone are just boring.
4) Lip Flap - This is such a sedate and depressing song that when the pair are speaking, it looks ridiculous and entirely out of place. You need to cover it up with masking, cut out the open mouth frames, or just choose another scene.
5) Reverse - About half the video, reverse was fine, but when you reversed quick scenes without slowing them down, it just didn't fit. The song is too slow for that, and it didn't appear you tried at all to make them match the aural quality of the song, just maybe the lyrical content.
6) Originality - Low. No way to get around that. Depressing character profile of Spike? Yes, originality is low. That isn't to say the originality is the end all, be all. I am often willing to make vids I know will be considered unoriginal because in the end, I want to be happy with myself. So, the criticism is only worth as much stock as you place in it.
7) Review - Sorry, no. This video felt like running for a finish line that never came. I watched it three times to write this response. That's enough.
2.5/5
Last edited by Kionon on Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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there was a bit there where I was like *cough* seen this before o.0... but then it quickly broke off
in the end it's a good first vid, could use some sync in the begining like you did in the chorus. try to go over your vid to make the entire thing more consisten effort wise next time. With that, and a little improvement you should be good. g/j on the vid :3
in the end it's a good first vid, could use some sync in the begining like you did in the chorus. try to go over your vid to make the entire thing more consisten effort wise next time. With that, and a little improvement you should be good. g/j on the vid :3
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Oh wow, this is what I sounded like 2 weeks ago. THAT IS SO WEIRD.
Yay! Someone newer than me!
I just put out my first AMV here too (and released my second a few days ago) so I dunno, let's see what a newbie has to say...
I WILL EDIT AFTER I WATCH IT. THAT'S WHAT THE PROS DO RIGHT?
EDIT: Boy howdy you like reversing.
Heh, nah, um, yeah. It was good. There wasn't anything that stood out as "bad" to me, so that's always good. Except for maybe video quality, but I'm still getting flak over that so I can't say anything. At first I didn't see any reason for the music and the video to really go together, but then I started listening to the lyrics and the whole song's about going back to the start. After that the whole thing seemed a bit more interesting to me. Y'know, the reversing made sense and all that. I liked the end with the still frame.
As a newbie to a newbie, good job.
Yay! Someone newer than me!
I just put out my first AMV here too (and released my second a few days ago) so I dunno, let's see what a newbie has to say...
I WILL EDIT AFTER I WATCH IT. THAT'S WHAT THE PROS DO RIGHT?
EDIT: Boy howdy you like reversing.
Heh, nah, um, yeah. It was good. There wasn't anything that stood out as "bad" to me, so that's always good. Except for maybe video quality, but I'm still getting flak over that so I can't say anything. At first I didn't see any reason for the music and the video to really go together, but then I started listening to the lyrics and the whole song's about going back to the start. After that the whole thing seemed a bit more interesting to me. Y'know, the reversing made sense and all that. I liked the end with the still frame.
As a newbie to a newbie, good job.
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I was surprised by that too. >_> I never got anything that elaborate. *cry*Emong wrote:A long, constructive comment on a newbie announcement thread?Kionon wrote:*stuff*
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