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by Scaledkittah » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:34 am
Regarding racyness (or not) so it would be safe for local hosting? I'd like to do so just for the comment factor, since you can't on indirect links.
The story I tried to tell, if a bit unsuccesfully it seems, Yuji is a cheating bastard, Alisha is an insane boy killer, and Marlene just hates everyone, kills them all, then sleeps around to try and get over it. Plot summary in a nutshell, not just an attempt to use filler relationship clips, heh though it did kinda turn out that way didn't it? =p
Regarding jerkiness and timing. Timing I tried to do clips to lyrics or to the background drumbeats. Looking back perhaps not the best choice, the other things stand out a bit better in the audio.
The way things kinda jerk around, well personal quirk and style choice more then unintentional "bad" editing, I just loved the way some things seemed to jump from "reality" to "fantasy" Specificaly at 0:55 and 2:08 so I ran with it.
Looking at the audio link too, one thing I don't get about the skimming I did before work, it's converting the music file to mp3 for compression right? But I thought that mp3 useage (when editing within a program like premiere) was a bad idea and actually hurt the audio quality? it's why I always convert any music I have to .wav, then edit with that.
But also thank you all for the feedback, least the ones who took the time to be constructive about it anyway. To certain others I guess I could say would you rather I just took a bunch of random clips of everyone getting killed and used that instead? Non literal enough then? [/snappy]
That's the one big thing I'll admit I'm rather confused by cause I get you're saying I'm being too literal, what I don't fully understand is the how? Ok yes it's all relationship clips, but that was the point of the song and the amv I wanted to make. And yes things like the hands at 1:31 pretty much are the song lyrics. What I'm at a loss to figure out is if not that, what clip would I have used instead?
Just not quite sure I get it, cause I read the comments that it's too literal. Then I go and watch something like "be a man" (by far one of the best vids showed at animazement 2008) And think to myself. "Fire in lyrics, fire on screen, typhoon in lyrics, typhoon on screen, mysterious as the dark side of the moon, and yep there's the moon." so on so forth, a lot of the scene selections there seem pretty literal to the lyrics, least to me. Yet that one's an award winner. So..am I making any sense here? A little clarifying or extra advice would be most appreciated.
In any case young babies are easy, say compared to a mobile two year old. AKA a compact engine of apocolyptic destruction.