My First AMV (Elfen Lied)

[Shamensyth]

profound

What's profound?

Sorry i don't know much english.

Profound means: Deep, Emotional, Thought Provoking.

Speaking of which, this video is all of the above. I'm very impressed. I haven't seen Elfen Lied yet. I consider any video good that makes me want to see the anime behind it. I enjoyed it thouroughly and will give you an opp!

Thanks for the nice reply.
I'm making a new AMV now too. Still Elfen Lied.

I'll be sure to check it out!

But this second AMV (in my opinion) won't be as good as my first one, I will still post it though. >.<

[Tormentor]

woot! Shame on me for complaining about no link here and then not downloading.

Great first video. But it contained some beginners-faults. For example the eye-movement during the lip-syncs. The visual quality was okay, but could have been better. Considering the fact that you are a beginner, who had no experience while working on this it's okay. I don't want to go into detail here, so why don't you just pm me if you want an op and I will tell you everything there.

[Bakadeshi]

wow, for a first video I'm actually imnpressed. excellent scene selection and flow here. It invoked some real emotions there. The only thing I hated was the lipsynch, but I hate lipsynch in most romance or emotional videos, because it almost always destroys the mood of the scene. aside from the lipsynch though, I realy thought you did a good job on this. The scene selection and how the story flowed showed alot of thought went into your selections and how you edited it. A refreshing thing to see in this day and age where new editors seem to go for more visual effects before perfecting scene selection and flow. Good job.

I'd have prefered an Xvid or even better H.264 encode though, since the mpeg is hurting your visual and audio quality in this.

But as I said, for a beginner, this was awesome.

[XenoDrake]

I really hate doing this, but im afrade it wasent all it was hyped up to be. for a starter video, the encoding mistakes can be overlooked, however, things like clip selection cant. sadly, the footage is mostly very long clips with little editing, clips and footage are reused, and though most of the footage has an overall mood in synce with the song, the lack of any effort to do more then that is very apperent. for example, you use the same footage of the stair way alot, this is not a bad thing, but letting just one long clip of that same scene drag on and on wasent. however you show great talet in being able to lay out a compleat AMV idea from start to finnish, as the mood and flow do follow through. what you should work on is more footage hunting i call it. though i havent seen the anime myself, what research i did of it wile it downloaded shows a very diffrent story then the one you show here. this is the makings of a very talented editor, you took and idea, and made it compleatly your own. the video was lack luster however, take more time to watch and re-watch an anime show, pick out clips and scenes in the anime that grab you and wright them down in a note book or something. alot of times youll start with one or two clips that you had in mind for the song, and just let the time line do the talking from then on as you place clips that flow with your first idea. though this is a way of keeping with an idea, your video shows you have talent enough to go beyond this rather mechanicle process of editing, into something more fluid and dynamic. picking clips that everyone will think wile watching it "wow, that came from out of nowhere, awsome!"

my advice is to take more time to plot out the footage, you have the ideas, now dig and scratch at the footage untill every single frame of the AMV is exsactly what you want it to be.


~XenoDrake

[Shamensyth]

Thanks for the opinions, I will try to do that to my 3rd. AMV...
Sadly my second one isn't as good as this one, but I will still upload it at a-m-v.org.

I will try to do that to my 3rd. AMV, got to do more researching.

[Bakadeshi]

I really hate doing this, but im afrade it wasent all it was hyped up to be. for a starter video, the encoding mistakes can be overlooked, however, things like clip selection cant. sadly, the footage is mostly very long clips with little editing, clips and footage are reused, and though most of the footage has an overall mood in synce with the song, the lack of any effort to do more then that is very apperent. for example, you use the same footage of the stair way alot, this is not a bad thing, but letting just one long clip of that same scene drag on and on wasent. however you show great talet in being able to lay out a compleat AMV idea from start to finnish, as the mood and flow do follow through. what you should work on is more footage hunting i call it. though i havent seen the anime myself, what research i did of it wile it downloaded shows a very diffrent story then the one you show here. this is the makings of a very talented editor, you took and idea, and made it compleatly your own. the video was lack luster however, take more time to watch and re-watch an anime show, pick out clips and scenes in the anime that grab you and wright them down in a note book or something. alot of times youll start with one or two clips that you had in mind for the song, and just let the time line do the talking from then on as you place clips that flow with your first idea. though this is a way of keeping with an idea, your video shows you have talent enough to go beyond this rather mechanicle process of editing, into something more fluid and dynamic. picking clips that everyone will think wile watching it "wow, that came from out of nowhere, awsome!"

my advice is to take more time to plot out the footage, you have the ideas, now dig and scratch at the footage untill every single frame of the AMV is exsactly what you want it to be.


~XenoDrake

eh I disagree, I have seen the anime, and for the purpose of the video, I thought his clip selections were pretty excellent. I liked that there was no blood and carnage and just showed her softer side, wich there are very few scenes showing her as that while she is Lucy in the series. (not including her other personality mind you) I liked that he was able to put together a video portraying mostly this... even though he did use a few scenes of her other personality also, the ones he used still worked well for the video as a lucy char profile/romance. I think if you saw the series you'd apreciate the scene selections better.

[Tormentor]

I really hate doing this, but im afrade it wasent all it was hyped up to be. for a starter video, the encoding mistakes can be overlooked, however, things like clip selection cant. sadly, the footage is mostly very long clips with little editing, clips and footage are reused, and though most of the footage has an overall mood in synce with the song, the lack of any effort to do more then that is very apperent. for example, you use the same footage of the stair way alot, this is not a bad thing, but letting just one long clip of that same scene drag on and on wasent. however you show great talet in being able to lay out a compleat AMV idea from start to finnish, as the mood and flow do follow through. what you should work on is more footage hunting i call it. though i havent seen the anime myself, what research i did of it wile it downloaded shows a very diffrent story then the one you show here. this is the makings of a very talented editor, you took and idea, and made it compleatly your own. the video was lack luster however, take more time to watch and re-watch an anime show, pick out clips and scenes in the anime that grab you and wright them down in a note book or something. alot of times youll start with one or two clips that you had in mind for the song, and just let the time line do the talking from then on as you place clips that flow with your first idea. though this is a way of keeping with an idea, your video shows you have talent enough to go beyond this rather mechanicle process of editing, into something more fluid and dynamic. picking clips that everyone will think wile watching it "wow, that came from out of nowhere, awsome!"

my advice is to take more time to plot out the footage, you have the ideas, now dig and scratch at the footage untill every single frame of the AMV is exsactly what you want it to be.


~XenoDrake

eh I disagree, I have seen the anime, and for the purpose of the video, I thought his clip selections were pretty excellent. I liked that there was no blood and carnage and just showed her softer side, wich there are very few scenes showing her as that while she is Lucy in the series. (not including her other personality mind you) I liked that he was able to put together a video portraying mostly this... even though he did use a few scenes of her other personality also, the ones he used still worked well for the video as a lucy char profile/romance. I think if you saw the series you'd apreciate the scene selections better.

x2

well I won't tell more here, since he already received an 1400w op from me, that unfortunately isn't public .

[Shamensyth]

Its' public.

[Tormentor]

Thanks

[EllahMae]

This is an overrated video in my opinion, it actually is bad...