Dom lisci

NS · Post by NS » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:33 pm

Different and I liked it. Didn't really scare me, but I think that had something do with the footage from "A total waste of 6 mins 35 seconds" was mixed in and that made me kinda laugh.

LeapofFate · Post by **LeapofFate** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:42 pm

That was entertaining and different

MeriC · Post by **MeriC** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:19 pm

ArashinomeAMV wrote:/Megoestocheckoutmycompetition >.>

Edit:
Fuuuuck

x2

Cool stuff.

-Reda- · Post by **-Reda-** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:28 pm

Well this seems to be getting decent reviews so far so I thought I'd give it a look.

I went into this not really knowing what to expect because while I recognize your name I can't recall any of your work. So it was nice to see a relatively fresh editors work (fresh in my mind at least). There was nothing quality wise I could label as "unbearable" so I'll leave the video quality alone. It was adequate.

Now onto your idea/concept. First off I absolutely love your audio source, it had some really great potential, PERFECT for a horror type video. Unfortunately your visuals can never seem to keep up with it and the entire video feels relatively disjointed. What I honestly think would have worked better is a single source instead of multiple because you really tend to lose any consistency you had from one scene to the next. A good horror video would flow from scene to scene taking the viewer from one horror to the next to maybe get something solid established across all of the scenes. But what it seems like you did was go into your anime and VIDEO GAME COLLECTION, pick out scenes that were creepy looking and go "Okay heres something scary.....next weird thing....oh this is strange....ooooooh scarrrrry..." and instead of feeling my heart pound like I did during the movie 'Signs', the feeling I was left with was as if I was going through one of those tacky haunted house rides with the cut outs leaping out at you at random moments.

The way you synced also seemed a bit strange. I don't know if it was the low amount of keyframes in your source (on the animators part, not yours), but it felt like the video never could quite keep up with the audio on this one. A more flowing source might have been a better choice to keep the atmosphere and pacing together.

So while I really did try to enjoy this, it didn't seem to make any sense to me, there was no consistency in either the scenes or your editing, and more importantly it was boring. Aside from the ONE scream in this I didn't even bat an eye, and even after that I was more cautious of long black fades. It felt like that moment was all you had to throw at the viewer.

You also need to do MUCH more with your visuals and atmosphere in this type of video. Black and white does not equal scary video. It helped match your color scheme from source to source, but thats about it. If you were using only one source, you wouldn't have the consistency issues this video had and you wouldn't have had to make the whole thing as interesting (visually) as a page in the newspaper. And not a page with pictures mind you, a page with ALL writing....SMALL writing.

1/5

Edit: Oooooh okay, "Haze over Osaka". That was good shit

ScorpionP · Post by **ScorpionP** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:51 pm

So I guess I should wait till the morning to watch this :\

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:54 pm

C'mon, be a man (or a tomboy or whatever...)!

Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:58 pm

Unique and awesome. This is good stuff!

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:16 am

now this is a true horror AMV, when everything feels disjointed and confusing that it just creeps you out 5/5

jtGz · Post by **jtGz** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:20 am

It really can creep out -_-. Honestly great edited thing

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:05 am

You mention translation help, were parts of it meant to be subtitled? Like the children part starting around one minute in?