You probably need two heads when looking at this AMV [YOKO]

[Knowname]

DANG that was slow lol... Not sure I get it all, but very original. *wise from your grave*

[shumira_chan]

Oh wow, a thoughtful reply and I missed it. But now I shall
take advantage of this serendipitous bump.

I believe that as an editor you have to justify every cut you do, every effect you put in, even if you do things on improvisation, on feeling (which is a lot actually) - EVENTUALLY you have to know why you've done things at that moment and whether it works or not.

I like the cut of your jib! My only remark on this is that,
although every decision can be justified, I don't think
it necessarily should be justified (i.e. explained). But then
again, it's an optional thing, a personal preference.

I actually never saw long explanations of AMV's which explains scenes in detail- if you have some links then I would really love to see them (just to see how other editors think!).

The fact is, my recent AMV endeavours lean towards
making the editing choices to be self-evident. I don't
even bother with titles anymore, let alone explanations.

I don't know if people actually like this video - I'm bordering on a 3.3 average... ADD-oriented stuff...lol, that's a good description! It seems that people have short attention span nowadays - like only 1/2 a second! But seriously, stuff that goes that fast, I just can't see what happens!

Agreed! That's why I find it hard to critique videos other
than on "flow", which is really the only type of appreciation
one can have for showing 120 scenes a minute.

[Greggus1]

This really has a 3.3 average?

at the org.

Thanks for the comments Greggus! Could you elaborate more on a climatic ending? I always like endings that make you think, because those ending make you want to see the movie/AMV/etc. again, but you're right, you always need to work to a certain climax. It's just too bad - as an AMV editor you're always dependent on the material...

That's just the thing though. When the whole AMV's already made you think A LOT, I like the ending to make you feel a bit more. You're really close, but YOKO just doesn't show enough emotion on the actual character's faces and body movement, especially considering the emotion of the song. Steadier Mind feels like it's just missing a few final clips. A proverbial nail in the coffin, so to speak (and for lack of a better metaphor).

A change of mood for an ending is also very effective for making it memorable and final. But that's a whole nother story, and it probably wouldn't have worked here.

[Niotex]

To be honest, when I heard that you were in the jury, I thought you were a specialFX-whore and that I would made it as one of the last!

Thnx its good to know I reflect FXwhore onto people

Do you have any more of the bad reactions of the audience? I'd love to hear them!

You shouldn't be concerned with the people at cons like that. All they ever see are naruto video's and so forth. Remember F.E.A.R. at Acon? "WMM I tell you!" "That's not a music video gets a 2!" "I don't see any special effects!". Just take my word for it that comments you got were not far off from that.

As for the masking, I've changed a few parts, so if you downloaded it, you see that it looks better. Thanks for the advice! (seems I didn't use feather at all at 2 of the parts - don't know how that happened!).

Yup noticed and noted so now send me a beta of your next installment.

[Kevmaster]

*just puts as random video on my ipod*


O.o

[Rapture**]

GODDAMN GREAT VIDEO!!!!!
If you didn't see this-you didn't see anything!
how oculd i miss this earlier??

but man you gatta see this-really! except for you need to be really fast to watch two different vids at one moment

but over all 10/10 !

[Autraya]

Do you have a link? I'm quite interested in that music video, or do you mean the one shumira_chan means?

no i don't sorry
and I don't think it's the one shumira_chan means