[AWA Masters and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

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[AWA Masters and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by Shin-AMV » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:15 am


Alternatively:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElbh2Ox1dA

Not a super original concept, but I had fun making it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxUcRd4UCIE

I went multi-anime since I figured it would be way easier to make with the photo-montage concept.
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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by l33tmeatwad » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:52 am

Really enjoyed these videos, keep up the good work!
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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by AimoAio » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:42 pm

Safety Dance: Not really my thing but it's nice. :up:

You For Me: I love the atmosphere in this one, it was really cute! <3 I wasn't all that fond of the male lipsync though. Otherwise, really good. :up:

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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by Radical_Yue » Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:40 pm

Safety Dance - I actually liked this one A LOT more than I thought I would. It's not really "HA HA! ZOMG HILARIOUS!" comedy as much as it is upbeat-cute. I adored a lot of the transitions, very smooth :3

However, the lip sync really bothered me. A lot of the time you broke some really sexy flow just to lip-sync and it almost seemed like a huge crutch.
"I don't know what to edit here....LIP SYNC!"
To break such smooth action and funny motions to have a character stare directly at the scene and lip sync was just...really lame D:
Only other complaint would be that you left the title text in the scenes from the opening. I know it'd be kind of a pain to remove it, but come on man :P It's Maters! DEW EET.

Overall, I still enjoyed the video quite a bit and I actually prefer it over the winning video from the Master's category.
Now, for the love of god. You're a great editor but please don't send this to every damn con out there D: It makes me cry to see someone with talent troll for prizes ;___;


You For Me - I'm sorry...but no. The concept isn't bad at all, but I quite literally cringe EVERY TIME there is lip sync. Once more, it felt like a major crutch. I would have prefer seeing the lovely dovey scenes that really drive home the lyric as opposed to both MALE and female characters from different shows looking and me and singing in a painfully high pitch voice.

We get it! You know how to lip sync pretty well! Now please stop D:

Sorry man, but...just...no. :down:


But overall, congratz :P This is the first announcement thread I've commented on in over a month. It's not easy to get me back into the video watching/commenting mood.

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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by Shin-AMV » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:28 pm

l33tmeatwad wrote:Really enjoyed these videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed :)
AimoAio wrote:Safety Dance: Not really my thing but it's nice. :up:

You For Me: I love the atmosphere in this one, it was really cute! <3 I wasn't all that fond of the male lipsync though. Otherwise, really good. :up:
Thanks for the feedback. :) Looking back at it now it seems more obvious that I shouldn't have had the males lipsynced. Retrospect lol.

Radical_Yue wrote:Safety Dance - I actually liked this one A LOT more than I thought I would. It's not really "HA HA! ZOMG HILARIOUS!" comedy as much as it is upbeat-cute. I adored a lot of the transitions, very smooth :3

However, the lip sync really bothered me. A lot of the time you broke some really sexy flow just to lip-sync and it almost seemed like a huge crutch.
"I don't know what to edit here....LIP SYNC!"
To break such smooth action and funny motions to have a character stare directly at the scene and lip sync was just...really lame D:
Only other complaint would be that you left the title text in the scenes from the opening. I know it'd be kind of a pain to remove it, but come on man :P It's Maters! DEW EET.

Overall, I still enjoyed the video quite a bit and I actually prefer it over the winning video from the Master's category.
Now, for the love of god. You're a great editor but please don't send this to every damn con out there D: It makes me cry to see someone with talent troll for prizes ;___;


You For Me - I'm sorry...but no. The concept isn't bad at all, but I quite literally cringe EVERY TIME there is lip sync. Once more, it felt like a major crutch. I would have prefer seeing the lovely dovey scenes that really drive home the lyric as opposed to both MALE and female characters from different shows looking and me and singing in a painfully high pitch voice.

We get it! You know how to lip sync pretty well! Now please stop D:

Sorry man, but...just...no. :down:


But overall, congratz :P This is the first announcement thread I've commented on in over a month. It's not easy to get me back into the video watching/commenting mood.
haha. I'll try not to troll it around :dino: and thanks for the constructive criticism. :) I actually edited out the English text that was there from those opening scenes because it looked super tacky, but was told by a few beta testers that the Japanese text looked colorful and said I should keep it so I kinda just left it in there. I debated with myself if it was obvious it was credity text or if it just looked like random decorative text but ended up just punting on the decision to the beta testers.

The lip syncing in You for Me was mostly because when I originally made it was for a youtube contest and one of the hosts/judges is a super hardcore fan of lip sync stuff so I was trying for some low hanging fruit there lol :P

But seriously, thanks for taking the time to offer honest criticism. I know lots of people tend to get defensive/mad at you about it, but it helps a lot to hear the things people don't like and I appreciate the feedback. :up:
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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by Darklydone » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:58 pm

Safety Dance: had me chuckling, really quite charming. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Nichijou vids as long as ppl don't screw it up. Nope this was really well done.
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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by mirkosp » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:59 pm

Enjoyed Safety Dance very much! Very good dance/fun video. Pretty simple editing, with just a few masks for transitions, exactly what it needed to work. I liked how you actually had the scenes and good lip sync do the work there and not random effects. :pizza:
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Re: [AWA Master's and Romance] Safety Dance! and You For Me

Post by l33tmeatwad » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:01 pm

mirkosp wrote:Enjoyed Safety Dance very much! Very good dance/fun video. Pretty simple editing, with just a few masks for transitions, exactly what it needed to work. I liked how you actually had the scenes and good lip sync do the work there and not random effects. :pizza:
QFT, I didn't think the lipsync was overused and was handled well. I also liked the Japanese text in the background, it would have been rather plain without it.
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Post by CodeZTM » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:29 pm

Safety dance was adorable! You had great sync and had really great lip execution. Very natural looking. The visual quality was FANTASTIC. I guess I'm just used to the youtube quality of things, but this one just seemed especially... "Pretty".

I wanted to get up and groove with it. Definitely will keep this one in my mind for VCAs. :up:

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Post by Statz » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:34 pm

I loved Safety Dance! It was very enjoyable. :up:
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