"Your Time Is Now" - Prince Of Tennis (Action)

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:16 am

There's a huge descripton of all of what went into the video and stuff and what it's about at the video site itself, soooo...

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=116014

comments?

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 4:08 pm

comments?

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:12 pm

here, i'll just post the description of the video that's on the post if you guys are too lazy to click the link to look lol

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When Fanime 2k6 was announced, a while later I read about the AMV contest, and seeing how i feel i've improved a lot since my last AMV (and first), i figured i'd try making another one.

I wanted to give myself a challenge, so I used a song and an anime that are not normally used/not normally used in this way effectively.

The Prince of Tennis is a series, obviously about tennis. I myself got into tennis because of the series, and yes, some of the techniques ARE possible to do. The Snake shot, the Tsubame Gaeshi, the Twist Serve, and lots of others are 100% possible in real tennis, and I myself can do some of them.

Yes, the series exaggerates things, especially near the end. And yes, they botched the ending to the series in terms of relating it to the manga, hell even the Sanada match was different.

However, with all of that, the series itself is a great action series with good drama and such. I made this video also because a large number of people only consider the show to be JUST about yaoi or shonen-ai, or they just don't think the storyline/tennis matches are that decent, when most people haven't even watched past episode 20 or so.

I chose to make it a development of how Ryoma went from his very first matches, to being beat down by Sanada, to coming back after experiencing the "Samurai's Eye" (aka SOSA in the manga), to finally having his true match with Tezuka, and all of the things along the way.

I'm not one for using a ton of special flashy effects, and while I admire those videos, it's just not my style.

Instead, with this video, while there are effects used, and there's even rotoscoping multiple times and such, and pretty much every beat/sound in the song is timed to an effect/scene change, I tried to put my own unique spin on things as I did with the Naruto video.

The video itself is supposed to play (with the exception of the slow parts) as one, long, continous match, except Ryoma's opponents switch smoothly throughout the video, giving the impression of one match, but again, with different people throughout the video.

Turn your sound up also, there are a few parts with piano that are very quiet.

Now as for the song.

First off, I was going nuts looking for a song. What song could possibly be varied in instruments (i wanted to do a semi-instrumental song) and have lyrics that FIT playing tennis, fighting, winning, losing, etc.?

I posted this question on the forums and on the FIRST POST, Kadaj named off the Muse song, "Butterflies and Hurricanes". Tons of other suggestions came after from many different places, but this song just beat out everything.

The song goes from slow paced, to hard, to instrumental, to slow, to hard again, with tons of instruments, a huge vocal range, and I really think that the song hasn't been used effectively at all up until now, and even now there's still parts of the song I didn't key to effects or scene changes and such.

Also, I tried to tie in all of the scenes themselves WITH the lyrics as well, while STILL keeping the beat synched to effects/scene changes, so check that out also (lyrics are posted below this entry).

I started working on the video on March 4th, 2006, and finished two days ago, May 2nd, 2006. I used around a total of 350 or so clips, not counting stuff rotoscoped etc. and probably at least a good 100 hours of editing time, while I was still doing two seperate films for college X_X

I still want to make more AMV's, and my next one is going to be for another "underused" series: Eyeshield 21, to the song "Attack" by 30 Seconds to Mars.

Also, yes, at Fanime, this video is shown under the name "DeepBlueVibes", which IS my real online name, but someone's registered it here already or something, so I wasn't able to use it, but otbwavelength is just a buffer name for a-m-v.org, so no, i didn't steal this or something.

Leave tons of comments, reviews, etc. etc. and pass it around to all your friends, i welcome negative and positive comments of all kinds.

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:18 pm

oh, i forgot the lyrics.

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Lyrics:

change,
everything you are
and everything you were
your number has been called
fights, battles have begun
revenge will surely come
your hard times are ahead

best,
you've got to be the best
you've got to change the world
and you use this chance to be heard
your time is now

change,
everything you are
and everything you were
your number has been called
fights and battles have begun
revenge will surely come
your hard times are ahead

best,
you've got to be the best
you've got to change the world
and you use this chance to be heard
your time is now

don't,
let yourself down
don't let yourself go
your last chance has arrived

best,
you've got to be the best
you've got to change the world
and you use this chance to be heard
your time is now

NMEisMIA · Post by **NMEisMIA** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:31 pm

I hated it.

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:40 pm

NMEisMIA wrote:I hated it.

why? no point in saying so unless you give a reason why.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:58 pm

otbwavelength wrote:
NMEisMIA wrote:I hated it.
why? no point in saying so unless you give a reason why.

Maybe it's because you bumped your thread like 4 times...

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:10 pm

mexicanjunior wrote:
otbwavelength wrote:
NMEisMIA wrote:I hated it.
why? no point in saying so unless you give a reason why.
Maybe it's because you bumped your thread like 4 times...

so you hate a video due to a thread about it? good logic...

i didn't want to bump it, but you can't edit or delete posts, and i forgot to put up the video info/lyrics due to lack of sleep, so what else could I do?

if a mod could combine my posts into one it would be great or delete them or something.

Prodigi · Post by **Prodigi** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:44 pm

getting the mods to delete the entire thread would be a good place to start imo

NMEisMIA · Post by **NMEisMIA** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:22 pm

Eat a dick. I hated it. That's all you need to know, faggot.