Bea$t - The Ghost & The Darkness [AMVNews: Big Contest 2009]

[Bea$t]

[Taokato]

I expect something awesome |:

/gets

Edit:
Well, it was great. Good to see another GitS AMV which was well edited. The only things I want to point out are...
Why the hell did you use the chroma keyer? Also I didn't like that you used GitS in combination with Darker Than Black even if you can't call it 'combination'. The first half of the video followed GitS' plot and suddenly the guy from DTB appeared as an enemy. It was unnecessary imo.
Anyways I liked it

PS: You used 2ndGIG,too.

[Koys]

Very good job, I loved !!

[OropherZero]

Not bad. Some of the effects felt too cheesy for me though, like the AE camera at 1:26, I was just looking at it and thinking "uhh what?" since it was hard to see and moved away so fast. Actually the camera (or whatever you used) made the vid a bit inconsistent since I couldn't apply a context over them everytime they randomly showed up; I would have liked the vid without them and just sticking with the nice internal and external synch you had going there. But yeah overall I liked the vid =) Also I liked the combination of DTB and GITS because it made the vid feel like a more random action vid since I hate linear/action vids which make sense =P

[Shinz]

Hm..maybe i'm at fault, maybe not. However i dont rly like that thing. Song about love, and pictures about effects and fight. Just how come this? I see that you are pretty good with AE, and your effects are nicely done, but you should use effects only when they are needed to. Next time try to sync with lyrics too a little bit. Ofc this is a personal op and nothing else. 2/5 because of these.

[Warheart]

I stoped halfway through because on top that the music wasn't my cup of tea the editing was rather inconsitent. The sceneselection as well as the overall amount of editing was imbalanced. Most effects were somehow desynced, and had neither a relation to the music nor to the flow of the video which made them appear to be randomly thrown in even though they might have worked pretty good if used more efficiently for they weren't bad at all (at least most). On top of that the actual sync wasn't present somehow I missed alot of sync throughout the first two minutes which lead to a disrepancy of musical and visual flow so somehow it didn't feel connected. Sorry buddy somehow the video seemingly didn't really appeal to me due to it's composition.

[Turbo]

On top of that the actual sync wasn't present somehow I missed alot of sync throughout the first two minutes which lead to a disrepancy of musical and visual flow so somehow it didn't feel connected.

Probably we watched different videos. Almost every beat was synced included internal frame sync.

[Mol]

that was way too random

[CrackTheSky]

I agree pretty much 100% with Warheart. The effects in this video made absolutely no sense - they felt really random and intrusive, more like you were just showing off what you could do in AE than bothering with making effects that fit with the flow of the song. The song itself was poorly chosen IMO, as well - the lyrics had absolutely no relation to the footage, at ALL. And, the sync was just kinda all over the place. There was no consistency, and there was very little visual rhythm.

The video just felt sloppy to me. Didn't like it.

1.5/5

[Ishbalan]

Meh. I liked it.

3/5