Motto Kenkou, Motto Ureshii (Fitter, Happier)

[Nya-chan Production]

My new (second) video. Everything needed is said on the page, so if you want to know what it is about, check there.

I would like to point out again, though, that I consider this video artistic. It's more about lyrics, so for watching it you probably have to be in at least one of the following groups:

- likes artistic vids (or at least vids that say that about themselves)

- likes ef and/or Radiohead

- likes slow/boring vids

- likes to listen to the lyrics and think about them.

If you expect speedy vid, full of action and effects, you will be probably disappointed. Don't say I didn't warn you :+)

[ZephyrStar]

Hmmm...this was interesting. Very minimalist. Maybe the only comment I would have on what could have been done differently (and keep in mind I mean differently, not saying it would be a better or worse idea) is to change the font/color of the Japanese text based on the meanings of the words. You could "paint more of a picture" that way by the end of the video. Also, the pieces of video floating in the background were distracting and hard to see, would have been interesting to see more of them/bigger, maybe taking up half the screen at times? Your quality/audio/encoding was fine. Good job!

[JaddziaDax]

that was interesting, and i agree with some of the things ZephyrStar said mostly about the pictures in the background, i couldn't see them half the time...

[OropherZero]

this AMV is just too strange to me, not because its bad or anything but because its really different to what I'm generally used to in an AMV, it was artistically interesting... don't generally like digital art... but I was reasonably intrigued by this. (I got it coz it was an ef vid XD)

and x2 about the background, only barely able to see and recognise some of them from the anime and I don't really see their relevance in a vid like this about than to synch abstract sounds in the audio.

good job? I honestly don't know @_@

edit after reading video description and first post:
I'll rewatch it again soon and listen carefully to the lyrics this time instead of just being puzzled through the first view. Anyway you said you wanted to make something artistic so goal achieved and good use of that scene in ef, got the pacing of how those words appear perfectly in synch. on a side note that scene in that anime kinda freaked me out as it did to other ef watchers XD

[Koopiskeva]

I remember that scene from ef, and this is just as creepy. |: You should hook-up with douggie.

[Douggie]

The concept was very interesting, but I just don't know about the execution though. First of all, the I think the pictures could either be taken off or changed. To have a picture of somebody pushing a piano key doesn't look very in context in here. It felt more you did it for audio synch purposes instead of going for the message.

Also, I kinda understand what you're trying to do, but I think the text/typography could've done in a way more suitable to the audio. I don't understand why Japanese? Yeah, it all looks like glibberish and meaningless in the end (assuming you were going for that effect), but it's also easily done with normal English - you can create the same effect with that. Personally, if I would go for the Japanese font, I would choose a thicker font - this one looks like the standard font (I might be wrong though). I have a whole bunch of Japanese kanji fonts BTW - if you're interested.

Too bad the build-up was non-existant, even a really slow zoom-in and a slow gradual color change to (for example) red would be enough to have it go with the structure of audio. Same for the text placement - personally I would go for lining the text up in a very neat way in the beginning - as if they were rules for a fitter and healther life - and then getting more and more chaotic in both placement (even add diagional text) and font size.

But then again, I might have missed some of your intentions - it would be interesting to know them.

All in all, I like the concept and I wish I would've thought of that, because now I see it I see all kinds of things before me. But your execution is left with some choices which I don't understand. Keep up the good work though!

You should hook-up with douggie.

what? blind date?

[Minion]

getting for favorite radiohead song

edit: was cool. expected some 2+2=5, got something totally different. tricky

[Kevmaster]

-_- I just wasted 2 minutes of my life.

[Nya-chan Production]

Time for a response! \o/

ZephyrStar:
I wanted it to ressemble the original as much as possible, so colours were out of question. But I agree that the pics could have been a bit larger, or less opaque. I did the typical creator mistake - knew what I used and thought the viewers would know it too. It's most noticeable at the third one :<
Minimalist is a commendation for me ;D

JadziaDaxx:
See above ;+)

OropherZero:
Really different is fine too!

Koopiskeva:
This is the best thing said to me for this vid so far. The general creepiness was kinda just the thing I wanted to achieve \o/

Douggie:
From your post I assume you haven't seen ef, which kind of limits your understanding of why I used the lettering how I used it (you're not the only one, though, many people complained to me that in Japanese you write left to right nowadays, for example)

Well, I admit the piano and the stairs are more audio sync (also with the silence after the stairs - you wait for some effect to come and it never comes... which is quite disturbing in its own way, heh)

I could use some more Japanese fonts \o/

There was a slow gradual colour change, but it's only a slight one and barely noticeable (because the graining makes it even less noticeable). The video gets slightly darker over time, try comparing clean screen (without grain) in the start and before the words "like a pig".

Intentions:
Get a slightly disturbing video, which ressembles the original ef scene as much as possible. To be honest, I even wondered about releasing it clear, without the pictures and grain. Just the picture and text. But that would be "overkill-artistic", I think ^^;;

Also... blind date? ^^;;;

Minion:
There's a surprise in every piece of me! I like the credits, heh. Nice work on song edit </brag>

Kevmaster:
;______;
*gives Kevmaster two minutes of her life to comfort him*

[Douggie]

Hmmm, that's too bad. This video could've been so much more if you didn't have to see the scene of ef first. This limits the audience to a minimum to get your message across and I'm not really wiling to watch the series just because of to see what this video all means.

I kinda know get what Koop said about remembering the scene...

Ah well... I just hope you could see what I meant anyways. Maybe I wasn't critiqueing you, but ef instead!