First Works.
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Shadow0101
- Joined: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:41 am
- Location: Vandalia, OH
First Works.
hopefully its not too bad. I kinda enjoyed making it. Ive made several amvs for practice but this is the first one ive actually taken time and effort to make. Hope everyone likes it!
Shadow
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EkaCoralian
- Joined: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:01 am
- Status: Trying to get the time to edit. x_x;
- Location: Canada
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EvaFan
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:25 pm
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Re: First Works.
Watched, mostly cause I'm a sucker for this song and sum41 is awesome. Try advertising with a poster next time to get more interest, doesn't even have to be amazing, just relevant.
Focus on intensity matching, emotions of the characters, and relevance to the song when it comes to scenes picked. That would be the best place I could tell you to start in my opinion. After that work on sync and if you feel like expanding your skills, FX (not necessary). 1:25+ is a perfect example of why I'm suggesting this. I'm not quite sure what you were thinking while editing this but IMO scenes of people laughing happily (very anticlimactic) to the intensity and lyrics right there just doesn't fit.
Anyway its not bad for a first work really so be proud of that. Most first works are terrible, I don't mind admitting mine is.
3/5 stars
It's not, but its not great. If most of your vids are like this then your editing style is the kind I like most but it needs work.Shadow0101 wrote:hopefully its not too bad.
Focus on intensity matching, emotions of the characters, and relevance to the song when it comes to scenes picked. That would be the best place I could tell you to start in my opinion. After that work on sync and if you feel like expanding your skills, FX (not necessary). 1:25+ is a perfect example of why I'm suggesting this. I'm not quite sure what you were thinking while editing this but IMO scenes of people laughing happily (very anticlimactic) to the intensity and lyrics right there just doesn't fit.
Spoiler :
3/5 stars
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NS
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Re: First Works.
1 big problem is when yer live action comes in it isn't in sync, so make sure that if you're going to use clips of the band singing or the music video, that it's actually on time with the music.
Also, this video didn't really have any focus, there were a lot of random sources coming in that really served no purpose other then to be there, I think if you would have stuck to 1-3 sources and really dialed in with your scene selection this video could have been a lot stronger.
As far as sync, you have the basics down but you definately do still need to work on really matching the feel of the song, it was close for a lot of the video, but not quite there. Keep workin' on it tho.
Also, this video didn't really have any focus, there were a lot of random sources coming in that really served no purpose other then to be there, I think if you would have stuck to 1-3 sources and really dialed in with your scene selection this video could have been a lot stronger.
As far as sync, you have the basics down but you definately do still need to work on really matching the feel of the song, it was close for a lot of the video, but not quite there. Keep workin' on it tho.
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Begi
- Joined: Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:04 pm
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Re: First Works.
Anime: Naruto, Shugo Chara! (TV), Futakoi Alternative, etc. (+103)
Pretty much everything NS said
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Shadow0101
- Joined: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:41 am
- Location: Vandalia, OH
Re: First Works.
alrite thanks for the comments. Yeah i agree some scenes were random. I suppose rather than trying to match teh song 100% of the time, my goal this time was to simply see how many different animes i could fit into a video. (sort of a test for myself). ofc though i made somewut of an effort to match themes in certain clips. i will work on it in my next video. Since i'll be using Indestructible-Disturbed (not confirmed yet), it'll be a good chance for me to work on fast action, scene selection and synching (all teh things u guys mentioned). And i kept effects to a minimum this time around since its my first time working with a program like vegas and Adobe After Effects. but im starting to get the hang of it so i'll definitly work harder on the next vid.
Thanks again for the comments. Much appreciated.
Thanks again for the comments. Much appreciated.
Shadow