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• Member: Ardamaeus
• Studio: Discombobulated Connections
• Title: Waking Summer Dream
• Premiered: 2014-09-08
• Categories:
  • Romance
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Natalie Walker Waking Dream
• Anime:
  • Hotarubi no Mori e (Movie)
• Participation:
  • Another Anime Con 2014, AAC 2014 AMV contest (2014-10-17)
  • Oni-Con XI, AMV Contest @ Oni-Con (2014-10-31)
  • Anime Blast Chattanooga, Anime Blast 4th Annual AMV Contest (2014-11-08)
  • Hamacon, Hamacon Minicon AMV Contest (2014-11-15)
  • Holiday Matsuri, Holiday Matsuri AMV Contest (2014-12-14)
• Comments: Hello. I've been watching AMVs for over ten years, and had dabbled with poor quality clips in Windows Movie Maker back in the day, (and have it crash every 3 minutes), but never had a decent enough computer to run programs like Sony Vegas or Premiere. Now that my resources allow me to mess around in Sony Vegas to my heart's content, I present to you my first AMV in perhaps a decade. Please enjoy my first attempt at a decent AMV in Vegas. I hope to make more in the future ;3.
  
  I made Gin "disappear" using Photoshop, and there is a scene where it's a little shaky. I should have used masking, but I was a little daunted trying to use it for the first time for scenes that were in motion D;
  
  The story is a bit different from the anime source. I made Gin look like he was appearing in Hotaru's dreams. I made his spell look more like a "curse" and I tried to emphasize the longing that Hotaru felt for him, and later in the AMV, vice-versa.
  
  I hope the ending of the AMV makes sense as well ;3.
  
  
  Free Zone 2014 - 5th place Best Debut
  Best Romance at Bakuretsucon
  Best Drama/Romance and Judge's Choice Award at Anime Blast Chattanooga
  Best Romance at Holiday Matsuri