Dark Desire

-BL- · Post by **-BL-** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:05 am

The beginning of the vid and some of the fx/cam movements bothered me, but I enjoyed the later parts a lot. One of the better eva vids imo.

So..keep up the good work

Velho · Post by **Velho** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:27 am

Thanks for the comments!
I know that some parts are not the best (both in scene selection and technical side), but it's just my 3rd amv, so I'm still learning and experiencing a lot of things. Maybe this is why I went a little overboard with the effects...

Ryko89 wrote:the visual quality was pretty lousy

I think the quality problem is on your side O.o
I watched it on different PCs, and there were no problems.

Anyway, thanks for the comments, I will be aware of these in the future.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:46 am

Hmm... This is usually a video that I would despise. The action video + effects + hard rock song? But I really enjoyed this one.

I think some of the effects were out of place, but I loved the effects that changed the colors of the scenes. Not the red crosshatch sections, but just the regular change in color.

Editing was pretty solid, I'll have to admit.

Pretty good, I just think it went slightly over the top in some areas. 4.25/5.00

Emong · Post by **Emong** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:48 am

That was really interesting o.o The beginning was a turn-off but as it went on and the pacing got a whole lot quicker and the sync tighter, I really liked it. I liked most of the effects as well. I don't care if they were presets or something. The video just looked good to me.

I liked how your mixed beat sync and effects together. Sometimes having so thick effect textures can kill the connection between the video and the audio, but it certainly didn't happen here. The beginning was kinda boring though. It looked like you just got hang of your own video after 1 minute into the video or so. Also, during the second-half, I wouldn't have minded even faster pacing and cutting.. It's just fine now too though.

But the best thing about this vid was the clip selection and how you executed your concept. Now THAT happens rarely O.o It wasn't the effects or the sync that kept me interested, it was the story. Not exactly easy to follow nor something you could totally get but even though it was my first viewing, I could clearly tell there's something really multi-layered going on in here. It's deffinitely a keeper and I can safely say it had one of the better executed story-lines I've seen in an amv

4½/5

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:10 am

I thought a bit what I could write about the video other than I enjoied it |=

But I couldn't find any words... don't know if that is good or bad now, you can decide that yourself. Well I liked it 5/5

\o/

Turbo · Post by **Turbo** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:12 am

Editing, sync and using of visual effects were excellent. But I didn't like this video, mainly because of music.

Ingow · Post by **Ingow** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:25 pm

Well this was the first time I didn't hate a video just because of that main 3d wall/screens effect so I guess I always just really hated what people did with it, that's a relief...

Music was nice, I liked the sync overall but I thought that the color compositing lacked inspiration, the generic red background and glows were a serious turn-off.

Funky-kun · Post by **Funky-kun** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:31 pm

Although I am not a fan of such music, I was pleasantly surprised my the video. The editing and effects fit very well with the song, and I really liked some of the effects, such as the red eyes. Nice video.

4/5

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:47 pm

From the stuff that came lately from Hungary with grunge style in it I like this one for the most.

I was often not pleased with how you integrated the grunge style on the real scenes. While the background of patterns looked good, the filthy grain on the clips looked boring on not good integrated.
The 3D motion wasn´t bad imo. However the same kind of motion got really boring after time. I wish that there would be much more originality at this point. It got some kind of lame to see the same motion over and over again, even if it made sense when you showed the corridor in the end.

What I really liked was the constant colour correction on the clips that gave the vid something special and more unique. I like that.

and yeah there were from time to time scenes that really charmed me with effects and editing.

I give you 3.9/5 for this one.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:18 pm

While having the video in continual motion was appropriate, it got incredibly annoying at some points. The segment around 3:30 in particular annoyed me with the tilting. The borders got old really fast, and the rotation-as-transition started to get played out after a while.

Questionable effects aside, the video was good. 4/5.