You Do It To Yourself

[DustyAstroidRain]

Video: You Do It To Yourself (Preview)
Category: Drama
Anime: FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
Song: Just
Artist: Radiohead
Creator: DustyAstroidRain

This is my first ever video! The basic idea behind it is that Naota's life is so difficult because of the relationships he creates but really he gets himself into all of that trouble.

I'm pretty happy with how it came out, I used the AMVapp with VideoPad Video Editor which made the timing extremely difficult to do lol so there was a lot of cutting and then deleting and recutting and deleting, so I know the timing isn't perfect, especially in the first half of the song when I was getting used to the program. Also, there's not really any effects except for one scene because most of the effects the program had were like the transition effects in PowerPoint and pretty cheesy and didn't work with the feel... But! I'm entering it into a beginner's AMV contest at an anime convention in Dallas, if only to get a chance to see it on a big screen lol. I know I posted it on amvs.org a long time ago but I never announced it so I thought this would be a good way to get some reviews and opinions.

Thank you all!

(Edit): Also, I wasn't sure which category best worked for this video so if anyone thinks a different category would be better than 'drama' please let me know!

[gotegenks]

hey, this was pretty good for a first video. Pretty decent pacing throughout, it wasn't too solid or consistent but way more than i expected after reading that first sentence. There were definitely some pretty good scene selection going on too, one in particular i can remember off the top of my head is when you put haruko screaming with sharp teeth to the song screaming, that was pretty tight, and then there were a lot of others too but that one in particular impressed me for someone of your level. And i loved the juxtaposition of the clips of haruko and naota kissing and the clips of haruko freaking out on naota, and then you started the whole giant bird part at a good point in the song. You need some work on realizing your concept as i didn't totally see what you were going for without reading something, which is normal and something a lot of people have trouble with no matter how long they've been editing, and also something nearly zero beginners get right off the bat. But other than the concept this was a pretty impressive first video, had a decent amount of good conscious editing, and hearing that you had trouble with the timing adds to that, and then i'm really glad you didn't try and use any effects and that you saw that what you had was, in fact, bad.

i'm assuming that editor you have now is free, so I would suggest you get a different video editor though as soon as possible, but anyway, i enjoyed this, although i am a sucker for radiohead and flcl, so it might just be me, but here's me saying

oh, and you can check more than one category, i usually pick like 7 because i'm never sure about what category my videos go in either...but this isn't drama at all xD

[DustyAstroidRain]

Thanks for the input!! I really appreciate it!