WIP - Dark New Day's "Brother" (Anime: Evangelion)

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:28 pm

SUMMARY:

This AMV/song is about Shinji missing those close to him, and remembering the memories he had with them, which is why parts of the video are in black and white. The beta AMV ends with shinji's memories being a bit clearer, thus the noise is gone and color is fading back into them some.

More detailed information about where i'm going with this video, as well as the link, can be found below.

I uploaded my beta video to my webserver which has unlimited bandwidth, it's 19 seconds long and 35 mb. the size will be taken down in the final version, i just haven't gotten around to encoding it in a smaller bitrate (Xvid, 12000).

Here's where i'm going with this video;

The beginning scenes basically replay the biggest parts of (in my opinion) Episode 1, fading in sequence. If you'll notice there are a few parts that are meant to be image tricks; i.e. birds fading into planes, so on.

The bars matching the guitar chords in the next part are supposed to show accompanying memories (thus, being grey and grainy) from the main scene being shown. Yes, they are somewhat random, but there is a reason for that.

The song is called "Brother", and the main chorus goes like this;

"FATHER! When you comin back..
MOTHER! Leave the light on again...
SISTER! with someone somewhere somewhere...
BROTHER! brother, brother..."

The lyrics surrounding the chorus talk about a happy place, about being with people he loved, that are now gone, and he wants them all back.

To me, this perfectly fits how at the end of the TV series (and you can argue the movie too) Shinji loses everyone close to him, i.e. they are still there in SPIRIT but not in actual bodily form to interact with.

Thus, the song is about Shinji missing his family and friends; a line from the song says "I'd trade it all, to have you all here with me".

Father = Gendo, turning his back on Shinji
Mother = leaving the light on for shinji, a safe place
Sister = Rei (yes, i know she's not REALLY his sister) being there as a sisterly figure, with someone (gendo) somewhere (chamber below Nerv)
Brother = Kaoru.

Now I know a lot of you would think Toji would be much better for a "brother", but I picked Kaoru because he ends up being so much closer to Shinji, and makes shinji uncomfortable; just like most brothers.

Critique the fuck out of it; and watch it a few times so you notice what's in the BW bars.

thanks bunches guys. video link below.

http://deepbluevibe.phpwebhosting.com/Brother.avi

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:33 am

anyone?

Kimarhi77 · Post by **Kimarhi77** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:55 am

Lookin good from what i can see, nice what your puttin in the bars

only thing i can see is that a couple of the frames in the 9-11 second section, maybe ones aleak in or maybe you're tryin to match that quick beat there? lemme know when you finish it