LopezAMV wrote:I've really enjoyed reading your comments since this thing started and this is no exception. To be honest I'm a little surprised, I expected you to tear it up a little bit more lol.Figured it just means that I'm doing things right (for the most part) =P
Well, if you realllllly want a more comprehensive critique....
@[LopezAMV] And Then I Said 'Meow Meow Meow Meow'
Spoiler :
General:
0:01 - lip flap needs cleaning up
0:06 - I assume the digital squaring effect is part of the anime? (I still need to get back around to watching SAC..) Anyway, if not, it should have been used as more than a one-off effect; if so, it probably should have been avoided since it's so noticeably distinct, and never used again.
0:08-0:12 - To go with the lyrics, probably should have used Nadeko shots for that whole sequence (tons of options could have been clipped from her room), and then cut to the next bit a little sooner
0:10 - not sure what the curtain is from; could see it as a transition device linked to the girls' skirts, but didn't really fit
0:33 - slow shot of the lance going past Saber: beautiful
0:36 - lost sync with the beat; needs more twitch >.>
0:37-0:41 - not bad, exactly, but felt like the video slowed down, lagging behind the audio (in a thematic, not technical, way)
0:54-0:58 - the boy dissolving into paper fit well, but the rest of the cuts just didn't quite work; didn't mix well
0:58-0:60 - slowly accelerating plane is slow
1:05-1:08 - running through the woods betwixt the planes felt off
1:12 - two consecutive shots of the same plane in the same basic movement
1:45 - The few frames of the girl with the giant finger having the finger extend probably didn't need to be there; you had a lot of wall-crashing clips before the cliff fall, the finger doesn't really fit in between
1:52-1:53 - Batou boxing; sadly, feels too low-key for this video, especially with the sudden impact punch in the next clip; feels like a little kid showing up a pro boxer
Direction: Very good. Most action flowed very smoothly from one clip to the next in one continuous motion (Nostromo is a master at this). Points where it felt slightly disjointed:
0:06 - going from Koyomi to the Major, change in focus from behind-right of viewer to directly ahead
0:08 - going from the Major to Tsubasa, focus shifts from character on the right side of the screen to the left, both facing the same way, so felt like a sudden skip instead of a reversal
0:11 - Nadeko's skirt spins one direction, then we cut to her turning in the opposite direction
0:39 - minor: the reversal of the rotation around Ed felt slightly off
1:09 - while I did say the running in the woods felt off, it did provide a means of changing the direction of the motion for the next plane scene, so good on that
1:37 - Saber's armor transformation; it definitely fit as a strong impact point to match the beat, but it occurred right after she was running at Lancer; slight discontinuity
1:47 - Saber's downward slash after the pan shots around her puts her head much higher in the frame than the previous shots, so feels a bit disjointed
2:02 - while the plane flying into the sun was a nice ending note, having it occur immediately after Mami's flintlocks fired felt wrong.
Anyway, I try to avoid getting too nitpicky on most videos, but if they're getting up into the "very good" levels regardless, I suppose more specific critiques are more useful for the editor.
LopezAMV wrote:I've really enjoyed reading your comments since this thing started and this is no exception. To be honest I'm a little surprised, I expected you to tear it up a little bit more lol.Figured it just means that I'm doing things right (for the most part) =P
Well, if you realllllly want a more comprehensive critique....
@[LopezAMV] And Then I Said 'Meow Meow Meow Meow'
Spoiler :
General:
0:01 - lip flap needs cleaning up
0:06 - I assume the digital squaring effect is part of the anime? (I still need to get back around to watching SAC..) Anyway, if not, it should have been used as more than a one-off effect; if so, it probably should have been avoided since it's so noticeably distinct, and never used again.
0:08-0:12 - To go with the lyrics, probably should have used Nadeko shots for that whole sequence (tons of options could have been clipped from her room), and then cut to the next bit a little sooner
0:10 - not sure what the curtain is from; could see it as a transition device linked to the girls' skirts, but didn't really fit
0:33 - slow shot of the lance going past Saber: beautiful
0:36 - lost sync with the beat; needs more twitch >.>
0:37-0:41 - not bad, exactly, but felt like the video slowed down, lagging behind the audio (in a thematic, not technical, way)
0:54-0:58 - the boy dissolving into paper fit well, but the rest of the cuts just didn't quite work; didn't mix well
0:58-0:60 - slowly accelerating plane is slow
1:05-1:08 - running through the woods betwixt the planes felt off
1:12 - two consecutive shots of the same plane in the same basic movement
1:45 - The few frames of the girl with the giant finger having the finger extend probably didn't need to be there; you had a lot of wall-crashing clips before the cliff fall, the finger doesn't really fit in between
1:52-1:53 - Batou boxing; sadly, feels too low-key for this video, especially with the sudden impact punch in the next clip; feels like a little kid showing up a pro boxer
Direction: Very good. Most action flowed very smoothly from one clip to the next in one continuous motion (Nostromo is a master at this). Points where it felt slightly disjointed:
0:06 - going from Koyomi to the Major, change in focus from behind-right of viewer to directly ahead
0:08 - going from the Major to Tsubasa, focus shifts from character on the right side of the screen to the left, both facing the same way, so felt like a sudden skip instead of a reversal
0:11 - Nadeko's skirt spins one direction, then we cut to her turning in the opposite direction
0:39 - minor: the reversal of the rotation around Ed felt slightly off
1:09 - while I did say the running in the woods felt off, it did provide a means of changing the direction of the motion for the next plane scene, so good on that
1:37 - Saber's armor transformation; it definitely fit as a strong impact point to match the beat, but it occurred right after she was running at Lancer; slight discontinuity
1:47 - Saber's downward slash after the pan shots around her puts her head much higher in the frame than the previous shots, so feels a bit disjointed
2:02 - while the plane flying into the sun was a nice ending note, having it occur immediately after Mami's flintlocks fired felt wrong.
Anyway, I try to avoid getting too nitpicky on most videos, but if they're getting up into the "very good" levels regardless, I suppose more specific critiques are more useful for the editor.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
You've got a great eye for detail I agree with you almost completely :3.
Sorry I haven't been posting my judge comments - I have most of them, but they need some organizing and additions. I've unfortunately been really busy, among other things with judging another (very large) AMV contest and preparing to help run an all-weekend AMV room for a con this week. On the other hand, many of you have already made awesome constructive comments on the vids, and at least half of the +/- points on Yue's results posts are things I wrote.
Keep rocking though
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
if it happens we wanna mix some songs with the one we have to edit, as long as the music given is 2-min-long in the mix, is it ok?
You can not mix other audio sources with your song. You can remix your single song all you want, as long as you can tell what the original source was, such as Copycat_Revolver did for his R1 video. Hell, anyone who wants to create a happy hardcore mix of their audio gets taken out to lunch by me >> lol Virtual DJ anyone?
Just saw your vid, and it's aweshum
