I don't like Moe Girls (Akuma no Riddle)

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I don't like Moe Girls (Akuma no Riddle)

Post by doomfish » Thu Jul 11, 2019 11:48 am

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YouTube link for your convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiVld_r1Nb8
And direct download from mega: https://mega.nz/#!UjoTkSwY!iZqoKRO0JHYo ... mfa9dfbcMM

A video from a few months ago. I fooled around with transitions in this one and went a bit overboard with it at times. But I still like it.

I noticed quite early into the editing process that the combination of anime and song, while having a matching topic (school shooting), didn't actually work very well together. There were very few actual scenes of a gun being fired for example. I pulled through regardless, but you can tell that I had to fill up some parts.

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Re: I don't like Moe Girls (Akuma no Riddle)

Post by seasons » Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:49 pm

This is really good.

I don't know how you did it but this is a terribly grim video that never feels like one. Nor does it really feel like a comedy video, although there's a lighthearted, tongue in cheek sort of feel that runs through the whole thing. I've seen plenty of editors try this and the ironic effect usually wears thin pretty quick. But I didn't have that experience here at all.

Great balance between the action scenes and everything else, the fighting scenes are spaced out really well, there's a lot of establishing scenes that define setting and character, song lyrics actually matter here (unlike most action AMVs in 2019) and I never got the sense that you were padding this out in any way. I've watched this three times and I'm just not seeing the weak links you're referring to.

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Re: I don't like Moe Girls (Akuma no Riddle)

Post by doomfish » Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:55 am

seasons wrote:
Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:49 pm
I'm just not seeing the weak links you're referring to.
There's plenty of shots in there where you just see a character's eye. Some of those felt like fillers to me.
But thanks for the kind words, I too feel like I managed to establish a good tone and story here. The anime really works well for that.

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Re: I don't like Moe Girls (Akuma no Riddle)

Post by Mol » Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:26 pm

Mhm seems interesesting. I felt something felt off at beginning, not really sure what , then i kinda got into vid. I kept shrugging myself with this kind of editing but whatever works for you i guess :shrug:
Still better than that MMO.
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