The Otakon 2010 Thread (OK now panic)

[irriadin]

I always wanted to tackle Ghost Love Score by Nightwish, but it is a very scary song to conceptualize (due to the EPICNESS, etc) and I don't think I can do it justice. Poet and the Pendulum is even longer!

[Honou_Miko]

Honestly, I considered using Poet and Pendulum at one point in my list of storyboarded AMVs I have in my head that will take months to do. And I once dabbled with it in soundforge and edited it down to around 5 or 6 with the high energy parts. Honestly, I don't think yours should have been cut down. For lack of a better description, it is like a classical piece as you said, and operatic. You essentially made the 10-minute rock opera of Death Note through Misa's eyes, and honestly I found myself by the end of the song considering it canon to the story. People were bored in the middle merely because they're not used to the ebb and flow of classical in our society generally. I personally am similar, and tend to listen to the first half of the song when I do listen to it, but with a context, it reaches new levels. Nightwish is very much like a band that does movie soundtracks, but it's a movie soundtrack in their own heads for movies that don't exist, and you either see them or don't. You just hopped on that train and used it

Plus if nothing else, I got to grin at the uncomfortable shifting around me at the 'being raped again and again' part. You got to make some prudish people wonder if they should have been offended. "And for that, we thank you." -Daniel Tosh.

...There is a certain sense of fulfillment when you know someone completely understands your interpretation of something, specifically with AMVs.

You hit everything on the head. Thank you SO MUCH. o_o

(And yes, I think even with all the intense editing I did, that whispered part is my favorite, specifically "you live long enough to hear the sounds of guns, long enough to hear yourself screaming every night, long enough to see your friends betray you." I also hope I made it blaringly obvious that "death I always longed for" is LIGHT hurr hurr don't blame her )

[GreatLupin]

[quote="irriadin"][quote="Scintilla"][quote="GreatLupin"]I think it got buried a few pages back but could anyone tell me what kind of reaction "The Job" got?[/quote]
It was a fun video and it got a pretty good reaction; I was just confused as to why it was in Trailer/Parody...?[/quote]

^^ This. Maybe I just didn't get the reference material, but it seemed to me that it belonged in a different category. Did Get Smart have an intro like that or something? It was pretty fun, though.

It was a loose parody of 70's exploitation/grindhouse films where all of the grand car chases and action sequences look like that (the intro was a reversed parody of the Charlie's Angels TV show opening). It is at heart an action video but it works in Parody. Glad to see the reaction was good. Thanks.

[JediNight]

I just wanted to say -- Thanks Scintilla -- I had Burger Dance stuck in my head for most of Sunday afternoon after they replayed your video during Closing Ceremonies ... And then again today after showing the video to my roommate ... >< If you remember me, I was the guy that talked your ear off before Iron Editor

And skimming over the last few pages:
I'm generally pretty good at picking winners, or at least what will be in the Top2. I was really off for Upbeat though... I just felt that the song was too long for the concept, despite some nice scene manipulations to get the desired actions for the song.
Also, I generally feel 5cm videos are overdone now, but I really liked this one. The song was a really good fit, and the use of rarely used scenes like the surfing ones was a nice touch.

PS: Do you have your updated version from Otakon available, Scintilla? The Org only has your AX version it seems.

[OtakuGray]

[Scintilla]

PS: Do you have your updated version from Otakon available, Scintilla? The Org only has your AX version it seems.

Wait, what? I just checked the files I uploaded, and it's definitely the Japan Expo Int'l version; the AX version was the first draft, so I don't intend to ever release that anywhere. The Otakon version was the logo-censored one, but otherwise identical to the version that's available; so I don't intend to release that either.

[JediNight]

Ah, okay. All I noticed was it didn't have the faked logos, gotcha.

Reminds me of the one animated gif I saw once 'shopped to have Hitler eating watermelon...

[Kitsuner]

I'd be interested in seeing the Bland Name Edition.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Out of boredom, here are my votes:

Trailer: Headband Of Eli
Drama: The clannad amv
Action: Gunsmith Cat City
Romance/Sentimental: Oroshi - Nara
Dance/Upbeat: Pacific Coast Party
Comedy: I forget
Best in show: Oroshi - Nara

[Brakus]

About the results, I did hear that the margin of victory in the Upbeat category was about 8 votes, so it truly could have gone either way; it's just the Haruhi/Lucky Star longshot beat out the morning-line favorite by a nose in that race. Also, I was shocked to not see Nara finish in the Top 2.

My picks - It's hard to handicap the Otakon contest, especially:
Trailer/Parody: "Tonight on a very special Section 9..."
Drama/Serious: "Coming Home"
Action: "Bring it Back"
Romance/Sentimental: "AMG in a Nutshell"
Upbeat/Dance: "Magic Oven Mittens"
Comedy: "Stupid Couple"
Best in Show: "Nara"

Maybe I should stick to picking winning horses instead of winning AMVs.