Connichi 2005: another 1st place in drama - Reign of Sorrow

Tormentor · Post by **Tormentor** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:55 am

Ok

Here are the information of my video that won the drama-cathegory of the connichi-con 2005 being declared equal to the video of zest.

Anime: Onegai twins
Artist: Insomnium
Song: The bitter end

You can find the comments to the video in my profile.
Sorry for not having an Avatar yet, but I am in quiet a hurry.
The video is uploading just now, have fun

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:32 pm

And here's the link.

Pretty hardcore romance video you got there.

Pretty decent job there though.

zest · Post by **zest** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:41 pm

it`s one sick drama xD
good first job

*thumbs up*

Ingow · Post by **Ingow** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:20 pm

I still think that the masks for the synching at the beginning were a nice and somehow new idea. The video in a whole is pretty original, I like it. For a first video great work!

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:21 pm

ok.... that was a very weird combo.. I mean I wouldn;t see this kind of music going with the anime in a million years, yet it somehow still worked. interesting take on the show, Editing was solid, but although I admit it worked for the idea I think you were going for, I didn't care much for the music.

Tormentor · Post by **Tormentor** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:03 am

Hey !
Thank you so much everybody

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I didn't expect the video to be understood and accepted that good.
I must admit that I am quiet proud of it. I hope I will be able to satisfy the audience in the future too.

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:09 am

Yo Tormentor, nice video you have there.

Somehow I knew you'd win.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:34 am

hey,

Very good for a first video, but there are still a couple points for improvement. Up until the second grayscale break it seemed like there was way too little in-frame motion and the guitar line was being essentially ignored. When the music is moving and the video is basically sitting on a single static frame, it's not cool. However, this did pick up in the second half of the video, so it probably won't be an issue in the future.

Subtitles = big thumbs-down. Insomnium is eminently intelligible (unlike, say, Shadow, they actually enunciate), and to watch this video without annoyance I had to put my hands over part of my screen. In the future, include lyrics in the video description entry, release in a container that allows soft-subs, or just let the audience figure it out for themselves.

This was not a great video, but I enjoyed it despite now having fingerprints on my LCD, and look forward to your future works. It's always good to see other people picking up the banner of extreme music, not least because I feel less guilty when I go several projects without releasing a metal video.

--K

Tormentor · Post by **Tormentor** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:47 am

Thanks for your detailed review mr Stromler.
Well I guess you are right in the most points, but my subtitles have a good reason to be there, this way non-metalheads have the opportunity to understand everything without printing themselves the lyrics out. Another point, why I used them was, that this video took part in a contest, where the whole audience should understand it. Thanks again

In metal we trust do what has to be done

!

Streicher · Post by **Streicher** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:58 pm

I think also that subtitles are very distracting for an musicvideo.
But as he pointed out it was for a contest. He had to make sure non-metalers could also understand that this is no fun amv.

Editing was a bit off on some parts but all in all it was well done. I also think it helped making the audience aware that AMVs can also be done to metal and not only to techno-pop.