The Race

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Member: istiv
Studio: Istiv Studio
Title: The Race
Premiered: 2005-07-01
Categories:
- Action
- Comedy
- Fun
- Instrumental
Songs:
- Weezer Island in the Sun
- Wiseguys Ooh La La !
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Comments: The idea to do such a video came on a discussion with Tyler. We were talking about the numerous scenes of people running in animes. I also had instantly the idea to use this to do a sort of marathon of anime characters. I started so to prospect for concepts to put into this race.

The first difficulty was to find a sort of scenario to this video. As i often say, one of my goal in amvmaking is to do more scenaristic videos, like Vlad did wih "Transcending love" [réf.] or E-ko in "Tainted Donuts" [réf.]. I realy wanted to do something different from "Shounen Bushido" or "Project Love united". So i search for a story that can motivate the characters to participate to the race. I had the idea of a mysterious Great Prize that no one know what it is. So the participants are imagining what they wondering deeply in their own anime story. And one of the stress i put on me was to absolutely not do another "singing" video. Now i have the background of the video, i started to search the characters.

The first character wich came in mind was Spike from Cowboy Bebop since i already saw him running in "Tainted Donuts". To say the true, it is possible that this video indirectly influenced me in making this video. But i really wanted to do something different evan if it was still people running inside. Then i think about Luffy of One Piece on second. Because, every funny thing ou need in AMV, you can be sure Luffy did it. Naruto, Kirua from Hunter X Hunter, and Edward of Full Metal Alchemist came after that. Once i had my main charcters, i started to edit the scenes, and see what can i do with the different piece of anime i had.

After a few minutes of editing i realize that, just putting characters in a race, make them run from a point to an other, should be boring. So i had the idea to put in it some "Chibi Things"-like fighting. Now my race became a fighting race. A sort of "Wacky Race" with participants, tricking, cheating, to win the great prize. I was prepared to do a lot of rotoscoping, but at this point i never imagined how much of cutings i'm going to do, to complete this project. After 1 year of editing, and many stops caused by boringness, world of warcraft or my Ph D. rush ... i finally finish the vid.

I would like to thanks some editors for the help they provided: Kirua for making me discover the song, and for the sequences i lacked of and he sent it to me ; and Laria for reviewing my beta version and tell me where i needed to correct some misshaps. If you have time, go look their videos, and let an opinion ;). I would like to thanks [R]ay and Ayor which are not amvmakers but that helped a lot by providing me some stuff i didn't have in my stock of anime videos.

I hope you'll enjoy the video.

Video Encoding: Divx 5.1.1 - 2pass - 3000 KBps
Audio Encoding: MP3 - 44 KHz - 160 KBps

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Anime USA (Vienna, 2005)
- Viewer's Choice Award
- Upbeat Runner-Up

AC Cubed (Ottawa, 2005)
- Best Overall

Anime Week-end Atlanta XI Pro Contest (Atlanta, 2005)
- Best Fun/Upbeat
- Best Technical
- Best in Show
- Nominated in 3 categories

Connichi AMV Contest (Kassel, 2005)
- Best Fun

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Local AVI 2995/160 Xvid/MP3 4:17 97.2 MiB

Local File	[istiv]TheRace(Divx5.1.1-2pass-3000Kbps-24fps-MP3-160Kbps).avi
Duration	257 seconds
Video Track	2994.664 kb/s Xvid [DX50]
	640 x 360 @ 24 fps
Audio Track	MP3 @ 160 kbps
	44.1 kHz, stereophonic sound

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