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• Member: MetalWolf
• Studio: Metal Wolf Productions
• Title: 2 Minutes To Epyon
• Premiered: 2001-07-07
• Category:
  • Action
• Song:
  • Iron Maiden 2 Minutes To Midnight
• Anime:
  • Gundam Wing
• Comments: It started with wanting to do a Aces High video for gundam Wing but soon after I was not satisfied with just making one video. I wanted to make a AMV starring my favorite Gundam, Epyon. Yes I know it may not be as popular as the others but I like Epyon. For awhile I was thinking of using a ICP song but I thought I would use Iron Maiden's "2 Minutes To Midnight" for him. In fact I only thought about using that song only 2 minutes before I was going to begin(ironically enough) using the other song. And what I have came up with in the end is a video that is a bit like Devil Appears and Enter Orsen.
  
  August 27th 2004 Revision notes:
  
  I have been wanting to remake this AMV for some time. I felt at the time Sounds Of War caught all the popular comments and reviews from people who have seen it that when 2 Minutes 2 Epyon came around they ignored it. For obvious reasons too, Sounds Of War at the time was the only video showing "Endless Waltz" footage which lets face it just WHOOPS the animation in the original Gundam Wing which practically half the time used the same animation just different setting and lighting. However I felt my Epyon AMV had something Sounds Of War didn't, a brain/plot. Sounds Of War was just senseless reactionary fighting constantly from start to finish while this one shown a bit more. When I make an AMV I always try to tell a story, I always try to make the AMV a fan fiction within itself just using footage from the anime, or just tell the story from my point of view. My AMVs always seem to be only understood by people who have seen the show already and not people who haven't seen it. Oh well thats my style and I stick to it, but that was the whole point of remaking this AMV, style.
  
  I wasn't satisfied all that much with Primitive 2, it was a start I guess. I wanted to find the best of both worlds from my old style of making AMVs to my style I have now. Well it mostly was I was so used to using soft music that I forgot how to handle making action AMVs in the style that I was known well for, the only thing I was known well for. Primitive 2 hadn't gotten very good reviews compared to my other AMVs. So I set out to try again, I wanted to get the dubbed DVD set but lets face it I couldn't find it anywhere. I decided to take a chance and get a bootleg, so if you have a problem sorry but I find it much more logical spending 90 dollars on DVD bootlegs that may not be perfect DVD quality but enough to be good, compared to spend 300+ dollars on the dubbed box set with good quality that would just be brought down to the same frame rate the other one was at. Witht he bootleg it was already at the same video quality my AMVs are known for. So no dropping frames or anything, just the same. I got the footage, I had the music, now there was just one more problem.
  
  See there were many weaknesses to the first version of 2 Minutes To Epyon;
  
  1) Video quality, lets face it like all of the AMVs that I haven't remade it looks like shit
  2) My editing skills, while many action scenes I felt I did them good but honestly I was a rookie with no teacher I had to learn myself. At the time compared to me now, I sucked.
  3) I wanted a english audio clip of the narrator talking of how the Epyon manipulates the pilot to be a perfect soldier. I couldn't do it the first time and just scrambled with something that spoke of Epyon. This time I wanted to be accurate but it was obivous that my undubbed bootleg that wasn't the case. However I thought I could capture the sound from VHS since I did have it there, but my videocard was being a bitch, so thats meant I was fucked. I tried everythign from trying tot he subtitled with japanese part as well but nothign worked so I thought, fuck it.
  
  Honestly this AMV took me two days to make once I had everything I needed. I knew what I was going to do coming it and whatever I didn't know I would improvise or think of something better than what I did before. Honestly coming in I tried to stay as true to the original as possible but by the end I realized I might as well throw out the old and just make it my way now. In most ways it is like the original just more action and less bull shit but still had the mental value of the old. I intergrated everything like it was a movie and used "Screaming In Digital" (madeby Rubyeye) as a inspiration of an ending but kept it clearly Gundam Wing. Half way through the AMV I had a problem, I was runing out of footage.
  
  Despite how poorly animated (even for its timeframe) it was I wanted to keep the AMV from looking like the anime was (using the same figure footage just different lighting and scenery) however by the end of the guitar solo I was forced to use that footage. Forgive me if you catch it and feel angry but blame the people who made Gundam Wing. I made due with what i had and I left no Epyon (with Heero) footage in turn. I used every bit of useful Epyon (with Heero) footage I could find. I didn't want to use the stuff with Zechs because at the time I had other plans for it. However by 2 days within practically 8 hours of editing I had finished the AMV. I show it to anyone i know and they always say it is good, it doesn't matter. They wonder why its hard for me it hard for me to learn at times, I get no constructive comments anywhere. I am too afraid to ask people in the AMV community because I know they leave busy lives. Comments meaning before I make the final product, to me asking for comments on how to make it better after I made it is nearly useless. I still enjoy getting reviews (good mostly, I dont mind bad if its constructive) but too me its only really useful before I complete it.
  
  Anyways this is the revision, I am much more proud of this AMV. Its practically what I wanted the first time minus. Honestly looking at it now its much better without of the vocal dubs I talked of before. I hope you enjoy it.