You could use Japanese dialogue with the scene and add subtitles, though there's the small issue of the heads thing. But you may not even have to add subtitles if there is no dialogue, or it just simply isn't needed because what's happening in the scene is more important than what's being said.
Though I think starting off with something like dialogue, or even just text (in the center, so that it's easy to read), would force the viewer to listen or read. A good example would be Shinnie's "Eliminate, Extirpate, Asphyxiate..." I think the dialogue in the beginning is what first caught my attention.
It's just like how you might have an anime episode open in one tab, and you're just browsing the web in another tab, waiting for a fight scene to end. As soon as you hear words being spoken, you wonder what happened, so you switch tabs.
There's also the "beginning is the end" kind of scene. The ending scene would be placed at the beginning, but instead of being edited to music, it'd just be the noise from that one scene. It's kind of confusing at first because you don't know what's happening, but it's something catchy if they watch it all the way through.
I also like the suggestion of playing something unrelated at first, like the Kara no Kyoukai short. Instead of the ending kanji, you could replace it with text that says "Shh, the movie is about to start!" or something like that.
Good luck in coordinating!Bauzi wrote: This weekend I coordinate my first convention contest and we will show the hard cost at the beginning and get more and more into the fun videos. Let's see how this will turn outAt least we don't want them to go home depressed.
Just hope that you don't have a crowd full of people with short attention spans. I'd be worried that some might walk out if it was too slow/mellow for too long.
I like the idea of ending it on a happy note though.
