Ouran Masquerade/Why So Silent (yes there's lip sync)

[seabird]

I tried so hard to make this song work as best as possible >_o please give it a shot!

Vid:
Preview: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=172807
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Fun, Romance
Song: Andrew Lloyd Webber Masquerade/Why So Silent
Anime: Ouran High School Host Club (TV)

Description: This AMV has so long overstayed its welcome in my movie maker. Originally I was doing it for giggles, and was intending to stop it somewhere in the middle of Masquerade, but I ended up carrying it all the way through most of Why So Silent.

This is my first AMV that has lipsyncing. I only have laggy WMM so it isn't perfect, but I tried really hard to make it the best I could.

I also tried to keep consistency of outfits and setting with the character vocal parts, so I had a limited amount of footage to work with for syncing.

Characters are designated as follows:
Andre/Firman - Hikaru/Kaoru (Sorry if their rolls get swapped with each other)
Christine - Haruhi
Raoul - Tamaki
Giry - Kyouya (it was my friend's idea)
Meg - Hunny
Carlotta - Renge
Piangi - Tamaki's Dad
Phantom - Benio

Hope you are amused by it

[doomfish]

Congrats, you happen to get 2 different opionions ^^
I watched this with my brother. I like it, he doesn't. And here is why:
My opinion is, that it really was enjoyable and well done. (By all means taking into account you used WMM oO)
Where to start? First, the song is epic in terms of grand.
It sounds strong. And fun. But you didn't write it, so there's only a plus for you for using it ;D
Also since it matches the anime very well, with all it's "gaudiness" and dances and "masques".
The scene selection was totally fine, I'd say, except for some mistakes. It's definately rewatchable, since it really is amusing.
The song is really good for practicing synchro. On lips as well as on songs. It's made for that.
Here is where we get to the downsides. After a few minutes the lip synrch goes sloppy. But for your first time, well done.
Still, I'd like you to remake it after a few years of practice. It deserves more. If you clean out some of the mistakes and do better with the sychr, it'd be easily a 5/5.
So it's just a good 3. Like a 3.4/5. BUT I didn't take the lenght into that. It's my rating for the AMV from 0:00 till around 4:00. That's were the cut should have been and the AMV should have been over. AMVs that take 6 and a half minutes have to keep you interested till the very end. The last 2,5 minutes just don't manage that. It just get's pretty boring. The sound is not good for an AMV any longer. You gotta know when to stop.
Now for the opinion of my brother, who may be more of the kind of many of the org'lers.
He dislikes the song. I argued it has some momentum, if you know what I mean. But he said it didn't have any.
So he says, the AMV got boring even before the fourth minute.
Also he claimed the synchro was bad.

That's all critice I can give you to work with. ^^
I hope you continue to do some good AMVs. Thumbs up on this one.

edit: Oh yeah, and at least post the lyrics in the description next time you use a song that's kinda hard to understand.
I actually started to enjoy it while reading the lyrics. Also that might be the reason for my brothers opinion, since he doesn't understand english so well.

[seabird]

Hmm, yes I know it was long -_- I really had no idea where to stop it, anywhere would have seemed abrupt. As it is, I cut out a whole minute of instrumental in the middle, and cut off perhaps a minute on the end. Would have loved to cut some of the chorus repeats but it is so hard to do convincingly!

And I also didn't want to cut it earlier cause I wanted to fit benibara as the phantom in, le sigh.

But no, it's not really my favorite song either xP beCAUSE it is so repetitive.

Thanks for your critiques and comments! I'm sure I will never go back and remake this, but I'll keep practicing anyway.

[EkaCoralian]

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA? 8D
/immediate DL

Alright, this was an absolutely brilliant concept. There were some points in the chorus which I wished had better clip selection (I don't know, a few of them seemed to be a little still, when the chorus was so lively) and I think the lip sync at the beginning could have been executed a little better (but as the AMV progressed, the lip sync got REALLY good! ) I thought the part with Raoul and Christine (as Tamaki and Haruhi) fit pretty much perfectly, and I was surprised at how well Benio fit the Phantom! xD I was expecting someone like Nekozawa as the Phantom, but now that I think back on it, Benio was a much better choice (I don't believe Nekozawa had much contact with Haruhi. )
All in all, this was great. Awesome work (especially since you used WMM!) Thank you for making a great AMV to a great song from a FANTASTIC musical! 5/5! *applause*

[Vivaldi]

I'll be sure to give this a watch.

[seabird]

thank you guys!!!