My first real AMV looking for feedback please :)

relymiah · Post by **relymiah** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:25 am

Well this is my first real AMV I've made

and I was jsut wondering if I could get some feedback on what you guys think.... I know the sounds isn't the best quality

but other than that could you please tell me what you think

Enjoy

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=37577

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:57 pm

I see two things wrong with it, Evanesance & Evangelion. Stop using it people!

'course being your first one I'll give you a break...for now.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:08 pm

rubyeye wrote:I see two things wrong with it, Evanesance & <b>Evangelion</b>. Stop using it people!

ReannaKing · Post by **ReannaKing** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:51 pm

rubyeye wrote:I see two things wrong with it, Evanesance & Evangelion. Stop using it people!

'course being your first one I'll give you a break...for now.

That's opinion, silly. Now it's fine to talk about video or sound quality. But taste in anime and music really shouldn't count toward the video's quality. I understand you may not be that serious when you say that, but still...

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:52 pm

ReannaKing wrote:
rubyeye wrote:I see two things wrong with it, Evanesance & Evangelion. Stop using it people!

'course being your first one I'll give you a break...for now.
That's opinion, silly. Now it's fine to talk about video or sound quality. But taste in anime and music really shouldn't count toward the video's quality. I understand you may not be that serious when you say that, but still...

I know. But really it doesn't have to do with taste in music or anime (although in this case it also does). It's just one of those things that irks many people - seeing the same damn song and anime used over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. (wait I missed one, over).

Granted I have seem many iterations and a few I liked and saved of both this song/band and EVA. I'm just trying to remind people there are more choices out there than EVANGELION and whatever mainstream band is currently on the airways.

I'll dwl the video and (tolerate) watching it when I get home tonight.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:07 pm

well you have to give him/her credit that "Going under" isn;t quite as overused as others... *cough* Bring me to life *cough*
incidentally I have yet to see a vid to this song by her, and I actually do like this song, SO I will check out your vid, and let you know what I think. Before that though, I have some ops i need to take care off for my free op thread.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:13 pm

Ok, regardless of my bias for the music and anime I think this is a very good video for your first (real) attempt. The editing style is very simple and flows wonderfully, opting mostly for simple overlays and cross fading transitions. The only problems I see are scanlines and probably too much use of overlays. It would have been better to stick with more cross fading transitions or simple jump cuts (especially with that hard crunching guitar riff).

Overally, not bad. I liked it. It's probably the most conservative Asuka video I've seen to date.

relymiah · Post by **relymiah** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:55 pm

Well first off thank you for your comments

now to get a few thigns out of the way or to make them clear

First off the reason why I picked Eva is because I have no other good animes.... either because they are sub'd or really poor quality. in fact I don't know if I even have another anime that is either of the 2 and I very much liked that action scene also

second the reason why I picked the song is 1. I like it... plain and simple.. 2 I couldn't think of any better ones that I have to put to Eva... 3. it sorda suited the mood of the video I wanted to make.

Rubyeye: I'm not sure what you mean by conservative

Also I was hoping this song wasn't the one that was on the Radio as I havn't heard it on the Radio as of yet.

the reason why I had so much blending in the Video is so that if you watch it 5 times... you can pick something new out everytime and not see everything the first time around... makes it more interesting for re-watching. and I got abit happy on that since I just learned how to

(like I said first real one.. I have never really done much video editing till now.
Last off thank you for watching and telling me what you think

relymiah · Post by **relymiah** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 5:11 pm

OOhh haha and one more things I forgot to mention.. with that much over laying and such I was actually litterally running out of video to use that was suitable for that video.

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I might have actually had put a somewhat complex and neat combo to thar nifty guitar rift if I have alot more film to take from but I generally tried to only take Asuka and her Eva.. and I only have that ep to take it from

So ya... I ran out of video.. I actually in the end had to take a few shots of Shinji, his father, and Misatu (not sure if all the spelling is right) and then the whole end I took from the second half of "the end" which I was hoping not to do but had no choice

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Sat May 01, 2004 11:15 am

relymiah wrote: Rubyeye: I'm not sure what you mean by conservative

"Conservative" ... as in "simple", no pretentiously abundant special effects or bizzare/unique techniques like split screens, color inversions, or layer masks.