Instrumental Anime Project

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:07 pm

anubisx00 wrote:End of All Eva blends two outstanding works of art to tell a story that's beautiful both visually and musically. The visual portion is (or contains, uses, etc.) excerpts from the critically acclaimed Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series. Studio Gainax, along with Hideaki Anno, created one of the best anime series ever conceived. Evangelion showcases biblical prophecies, heart stopping drama, and collosal mech battles. This video is a short depiction of the grand story of Evangelion. Originally, the music considered for End of All Eva was a piece composed by John Williams. However, John Williams' music was too well known (recognizable?) and the full effect of the video would be lost. The search for musical accompaniment was finally settled with "The End of All Things", a selection composed by Howard Shore, from the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King soundtrack.

Not only did End of All Eva combine <strike>these</strike> two already excellent artworks to create a new piece, but it also showcased and paid tribute to their magnificent achievements. End of All Eva was created out of respect and admiration for all forms of art, and all who push themselves to present their ideas and emotions any way they can. As Orson Welles once said, "Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others." Please watch and enjoy this mixture of Evangelion and Lord of the Rings.

anubisx00 wrote:I'm not sure if I should include the part saying what music was first considered. It seems kind of irrevelent, but it was what came to my mind while writing.

It doesn't need to be in the monologue, but you can leave it in if you want. The monologue looks quite good actually. There are detailed descriptions of your sources and what you did with your video.

Otohiko wrote:Hidden far away in Eastern Turkey, the great mountain of Ararat may seem one of the most remote destinations, out of the reach of civilization.

having "of" appear twice in three words just reads odd. otherwise it looks good as well.

to both otohiko and anubisx00: do you want to indicate where in your monologue to cue images, like what jasper-isis did?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:35 pm

Oh yea, I'll give that a look - both some of the style and the image-cueing things, thanks.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:12 am

I'm now back in Rochester, NY - and have the rest of the week free to finish this thing.

I don't think my FTP or website is available right now, as I've heard it takes a couple days for the free DNS services to update their forwarding based on a change of settings.

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THE FINAL VIDEO ORDER:

Fullscreen:
00 section intro
01 chris lee (downwithpants) - tomoe in the moonlight
02 chris nguyen (aznraver) - a boy i knew
03 arien sanders (ooshna) - simplicity
04 wendy mihail (songbird) - warrior's dance
05 george ross (otohiko) - ararat
06 helen ye (jasper-isis) - forbidden memories
07 intermission and credits for fullscreen version
(intermission theme from monty python and the holy grail)

Widescreen:
00 section intro
01 kareef huggins (bakadeshi) - oratorio of ghibli
02 christian paro (rose4emily) - 13'37"
03 soren berg (pen-pen) - requiem for a nightmare
04 helen ye (jasper-isis) - surrealism
05 daniel steinberg (anubisx) - end of all eva
06 george ross (otohiko) - the wasteland
07 credits for entire project
(louis armstrong - what a wonderful world)

I know that the two Evangelion videos are right next to each
other, and that that would generally be a bad idea, but I
arranged them as I did because their thematic similarity
seemed to warrant temporal proximity and I was worried that
their extreme intensity might scare away timid viewers -
causing the 'separator' video (the most likely candidate being
the beautiful "surrealism") to go unwatched.

That, and I think they make a cool, albiet somewhat
apocolyptic finale. Not that there's any property of an
apocolypse that precludes putting it at the end of something.

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I AM MISSING PICTURES FOR THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:

bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
pen-pen - requiem for a nightmare
songbird - warrior's dance

I also should note once again that the pictures have to go with
the monologue, and that the monologue should be marked so
I'll know when to move on to the next "slide".

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I AM MISSING SCRIPTS FOR THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:

aznraver - a boy i knew
bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
ooshna - simplicity
otohiko - ararat
otohiko - the wasteland
pen-pen - requiem for a nightmare
songbird - warrior's dance.

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Now that I've made myself into that irritating librarian telling
you you won't get your diploma until all of your overdue fines
have been paid off, I think I'll get back to work on (mixed
metaphor ahead) assembing the segments I do have all of the
ingredients for. It doesn't take too much time on my part, but
all of the rendering and encoding work ties up my computer for
more than an hour for each video. That's why, now that I'm
free to pick up the slack on my end, it's still taking so long for
the last few tasks of this project to be completed.

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Oh - I could also use a list of the anime used in each of the
following videos - because I'm not entirely sure and don't
want to screw something like that up when I'm doing the
credits:

bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
pen-pen - requiem for a nightmare
songbird - warrior's dance

And the composer, song, and performer for each of the
following videos:

bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
jasper-isis - forbidden memories
jasper-isis - surrealism
songbird - warrior's dance

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I also think I should put in the side roles some of youi have
performed, but want to make sure I have all of that right, so
I'd like to know if anyone in certain of who:

made the "bumper" titles (i think that was helen)
made the dvd covers
made the banners (everyone who made and posted one)
came up with the idea for this project in the first place (all I've
got so far is "Sara" and the handle "ChiaPetzukamori" - but
that might have to do. there was also an earlier mentioning
of a project based on fantasia by Salvador Asencio
(angelx03), who happens to be another student at my
school, but whose post was made about half a year before I
had even seen any anime other than Grave of the Fireflies,
nevermind my wandering into this project in the forums).
provided backup ftp space when my computer was down
(pen-pen and ooshna, i believe)
or did anything else i'm forgetting here

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The two television ads used in making the "set" were by
Motorola (the early-50's television and man in chair) and Sony
(the mid-00's television).

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rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:13 am

otohiko - how about "...beyond the reach of civilization..."?

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:16 am

i seem to have a thing for multiple posts.

any mention of bond, maybe, in the script for ararat? i think working in the group performing the song would be appropriate as well as giving credit to the group that wrote it.

at least it seems there's one less item on the "scripts i don't have" list.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:58 am

awesome, the production of this project is in sight :drools:

rose4emily wrote: I AM MISSING SCRIPTS FOR THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:

aznraver - a boy i knew
bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
ooshna - simplicity
otohiko - ararat
otohiko - the wasteland
pen-pen - requiem for a nightmare
songbird - warrior's dance.

If they don't submit new monologues, I have what they posted on the forum thread.
aznraver's - http://amv.dwp.filetap.com/monologues/abik.htm
bakadeshi's - http://amv.dwp.filetap.com/monologues/flying.htm
pen-pen's - http://amv.dwp.filetap.com/monologues/requiem.htm
songbird's - http://amv.dwp.filetap.com/monologues/warriors.htm
ooshna and otohiko's we're still working on.

rose4emily wrote: Oh - I could also use a list of the anime used in each of the
following videos - because I'm not entirely sure and don't
want to screw something like that up when I'm doing the
credits:

bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
pen-pen - requiem for a nightmare
songbird - warrior's dance

And the composer, song, and performer for each of the
following videos:

bakadeshi - oratorio of ghibli
jasper-isis - forbidden memories
jasper-isis - surrealism
songbird - warrior's dance

bakadeshi's - Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, The Cat Returns - "Flying" - James Howard Newton (composer)
jasper-isis's forbidden memories - Fruits Basket - "Time in a Bottle" - Van Craven (performer)
jasper-isis's surrealism - The Animatrix: Beyond - "Shiita No Ketsui" - Joe Hisaishi (composer)
pen-pen - Memories: Magnetic Rose
songbird21 - Trigun, Rurouni Kenshin, Inu Yasha - "Diva Dance" - Amazon credits it to Eric Serra (composer/Fifth Element Soundtrack)

rose4emily wrote: I also think I should put in the side roles some of youi have
performed, but want to make sure I have all of that right, so
I'd like to know if anyone in certain of who:

made the "bumper" titles (i think that was helen)
made the dvd covers
made the banners (everyone who made and posted one)
came up with the idea for this project in the first place (all I've
got so far is "Sara" and the handle "ChiaPetzukamori" - but
that might have to do. there was also an earlier mentioning
of a project based on fantasia by Salvador Asencio
(angelx03), who happens to be another student at my
school, but whose post was made about half a year before I
had even seen any anime other than Grave of the Fireflies,
nevermind my wandering into this project in the forums).
provided backup ftp space when my computer was down
(pen-pen and ooshna, i believe)
or did anything else i'm forgetting here

bakadeshi made the dvd covers
don't forget to credit Kalium (Jeremy Wagner-Kaiser according to his profile) for providing ftp space while your ftp was down/inaccessible.
and Maverick7013 (whose name I don't know) for adding a semi-colon to aznraver's monologue and an "l" to bakadeshi's dvd cover

but he did help around here and there

rose4emily wrote:any mention of bond, maybe, in the script for ararat? i think working in the group performing the song would be appropriate as well as giving credit to the group that wrote it.

there is mention in the second paragraph of his monologue.

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:32 am

Rose what do you mean by script? If you mean when to show my pics during the monoloogy just do it when ever in whatever order. Unlike most of the other videos mine had no real value and was more random it had no story and is ment to be that way.

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:37 am

Also my monoy loggy thing was back on page 48

Simplicity was created solely for this collaboration. Before becoming part of the Instrumentality project, Ooshna had never created a video using music without vocals. The first challenge for him was just finding a suitable song, but after that, Simplicity seemed to just flow together. The clips used were selected to match the eerie and depressing tone of the song. Because the video would have lost much of its gloominess with too many effects, effects were limited to simple fades created with the rubberband function. Thus, the name Simplicity.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:08 am

Hurray for DWP's awesome resourcefulness!

jasper-isis's forbidden memories - Fruits Basket - "Time in a Bottle: Piano Adaptation" - Van Craven (performer)

FYI: Jim Croce was the original composer of "Time in a Bottle."

jasper-isis's surrealism - The Animatrix: Beyond - "Shiita No Ketsui" - Joe Hisaishi (composer)

FYI: Joe Hisashi is also the performer.

We're finally getting it all together! *sniff... I'm so happy...

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:12 am

DWP: I think there's something funky going on at the bottom of your tracklisting.