I started to make a happy amv but it turned out sad xD. I added a little story to the video as well. Enjoy ^.^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYnv0Ba8C4 or https://vimeo.com/119545029
[AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
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post-it
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Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
Hmmm, not playable; yup, that sorta sums it up.
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MADTeaTime
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Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
I did leave a vimeo linkpost-it wrote:Hmmm, not playable; yup, that sorta sums it up.
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post-it
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Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
. . me thinks you 'just don't get-it.
Videos are looked at from 7 points of view here;
a link to a re-encoded AMV is pointless!
Content, Clarity, Interlacing, sound and usage of Technics.
as for your content, a after then before scene
doesn't quite work. Sense the Content didn't
pan-out, you're forcing us to value encoding
standards that are NOT your own.
. Then, once this is noted, what exactly are we
giving an opion on?
Videos are looked at from 7 points of view here;
a link to a re-encoded AMV is pointless!
Content, Clarity, Interlacing, sound and usage of Technics.
as for your content, a after then before scene
doesn't quite work. Sense the Content didn't
pan-out, you're forcing us to value encoding
standards that are NOT your own.
. Then, once this is noted, what exactly are we
giving an opion on?
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remus_damascus
- Joined: Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:20 pm
Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
I don't totally agree with the guy above, but you should upload it here (the original source) since we could go deeper in our opinions. I'm not a encoding guru, but sometimes I think I can be helpful too. I guess. I don't know.
But anyway...
I appreciate the usage of the noise effect in the beginning. Font color is alright, it's simple, it's white.
I liked the transition you made up for the introduction title, as it suits the transition you did with the door too.
Here's a fact: Introduction titles MUST say a LOT about what's coming up. Be more creative.
The whole amv is so colorful, as it's talking about her present days in which she is struggling to reach her dreams as a musician.
You chose a simple and almost minimalist background and font-style for it! In my humble opinion it just doesn't suit it! It doesn't! Its proceeded by her colorful "today", c'mon. Don't be afraid of building contrasts everywhere. As they can bring a lot of emotion to the viewer, use it a lot.
Here's a suggestion: As you introducted us with her family portrait, which brings us to her past, when reading the sentence "If you could see me now", why don't you bring us to her present in the second time you're showing the title?
It starts pretty well, flowing with the accelerated rythm of a rap song. Nice.
Around 00:22 you masked her leg to create a transition. Well, you should be more careful with that. People love patterns, patterns get us addicted, so next time you do that, be sure to do it all the time. Or at least, you can follow a pattern that doesn't requires you to do it every change of scene. The most important is to follow a pattern. For example: every 4 scenes you make one. It's also important that they are short enough for us to recognize a pattern. I also noticed you used some flashes between some scenes, and that's not following a pattern either.
I loved the fact that you didn't use hard cuts directly with the snare beat. How that short delay made it smoothier.
Around 00:32, I like the way you chose a dark colored blue scene in contrast with her everyday "yellow". It matches with her sadness of missing her parents.
I must say I didn't quite like the transition you made for the proceeding scene where she holds the paper with the songs she wrote. It's not following any pattern! Plus, it's too "hard", as it goes directly with the sound of the snare beat.
00:50 to 00:54 it's marvelous! There's a slightly change in the melody, as a second voice is added and the rapper use his own father's words. The images go along with the song, building an atmosphere of "getting it done". Her and her friends' hands raise in a not common way to the flowing you build, which made it so good. It stopped going along with the snares, to go along with the rapper's father sentence.
Nice transition you build with the window at 1:00. I still must say that the scene that proceeded has some dark "shots" and for the transition you should pick up one with more light. Like the one in 1:05 where she stays smiling in that contra-plongee medium shot.
When she is "crying inside" (I don't know if that what you meant) when she appears in black and white... well, I think that's great. It's great to close a story showing a character's feelings and everyone should do that. And I don't think it turned out sad. She's obviously proud of herself. She's happy! She just miss her parents and wish she could show them where she is now.
Does that bird symbolizes the death of her father and mother? It just got my attention... I haven't watched this anime yet
Also I noticed she had a younger sister in that portrait.
And I also noticed she's with a sick woman and she holds a pengeant after that.
Who's that sick woman? Is that the present? Is that the past?
Another suggestion of mine is that you could specify if we need to watch the anime first to understand the character's story.
You build a great progression of emotions for your character, although there are still some "technical issues" as I said above.
I would give you 4/5
But anyway...
I appreciate the usage of the noise effect in the beginning. Font color is alright, it's simple, it's white.
I liked the transition you made up for the introduction title, as it suits the transition you did with the door too.
Here's a fact: Introduction titles MUST say a LOT about what's coming up. Be more creative.
The whole amv is so colorful, as it's talking about her present days in which she is struggling to reach her dreams as a musician.
You chose a simple and almost minimalist background and font-style for it! In my humble opinion it just doesn't suit it! It doesn't! Its proceeded by her colorful "today", c'mon. Don't be afraid of building contrasts everywhere. As they can bring a lot of emotion to the viewer, use it a lot.
Here's a suggestion: As you introducted us with her family portrait, which brings us to her past, when reading the sentence "If you could see me now", why don't you bring us to her present in the second time you're showing the title?
It starts pretty well, flowing with the accelerated rythm of a rap song. Nice.
Around 00:22 you masked her leg to create a transition. Well, you should be more careful with that. People love patterns, patterns get us addicted, so next time you do that, be sure to do it all the time. Or at least, you can follow a pattern that doesn't requires you to do it every change of scene. The most important is to follow a pattern. For example: every 4 scenes you make one. It's also important that they are short enough for us to recognize a pattern. I also noticed you used some flashes between some scenes, and that's not following a pattern either.
I loved the fact that you didn't use hard cuts directly with the snare beat. How that short delay made it smoothier.
Around 00:32, I like the way you chose a dark colored blue scene in contrast with her everyday "yellow". It matches with her sadness of missing her parents.
I must say I didn't quite like the transition you made for the proceeding scene where she holds the paper with the songs she wrote. It's not following any pattern! Plus, it's too "hard", as it goes directly with the sound of the snare beat.
00:50 to 00:54 it's marvelous! There's a slightly change in the melody, as a second voice is added and the rapper use his own father's words. The images go along with the song, building an atmosphere of "getting it done". Her and her friends' hands raise in a not common way to the flowing you build, which made it so good. It stopped going along with the snares, to go along with the rapper's father sentence.
Nice transition you build with the window at 1:00. I still must say that the scene that proceeded has some dark "shots" and for the transition you should pick up one with more light. Like the one in 1:05 where she stays smiling in that contra-plongee medium shot.
When she is "crying inside" (I don't know if that what you meant) when she appears in black and white... well, I think that's great. It's great to close a story showing a character's feelings and everyone should do that. And I don't think it turned out sad. She's obviously proud of herself. She's happy! She just miss her parents and wish she could show them where she is now.
Does that bird symbolizes the death of her father and mother? It just got my attention... I haven't watched this anime yet
Also I noticed she had a younger sister in that portrait.
And I also noticed she's with a sick woman and she holds a pengeant after that.
Who's that sick woman? Is that the present? Is that the past?
Another suggestion of mine is that you could specify if we need to watch the anime first to understand the character's story.
You build a great progression of emotions for your character, although there are still some "technical issues" as I said above.
I would give you 4/5
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MADTeaTime
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Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
"Another suggestion of mine is that you could specify if we need to watch the anime first to understand the character's story."
I made the story my self, that stuff does not happen in the show so you don't have to watch to understand ^^
I made the story my self, that stuff does not happen in the show so you don't have to watch to understand ^^
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post-it
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Re: [AMV] K-On! - If You Could See Me Now
- ok, maybe I'm being a bit too blunt here.
Original Source and how we use it is "what we practice and fine-tune here." Unfortunately, most of the Teachers and Instructors are no longer accepted by the College Guru's of today.
At one time here, we had someone get an award ( a new release ) of a Video Editor fully paid for and Licensed in his name - to Keep; virtually because of his HoRriD AMV!
Song: Opening to "2001 - a space oddity"
Video: a square cube bouncing around the 4 corners of your screen.
T_T .... yup! .... hehe
we used to have a lot of fun here. Then, the Guru's took over.
I'd like those days to return once more but, like putting Obama in office, we're not quite sure how to undo the damage.
Original Source and how we use it is "what we practice and fine-tune here." Unfortunately, most of the Teachers and Instructors are no longer accepted by the College Guru's of today.
At one time here, we had someone get an award ( a new release ) of a Video Editor fully paid for and Licensed in his name - to Keep; virtually because of his HoRriD AMV!
Song: Opening to "2001 - a space oddity"
Video: a square cube bouncing around the 4 corners of your screen.
T_T .... yup! .... hehe
we used to have a lot of fun here. Then, the Guru's took over.
I'd like those days to return once more but, like putting Obama in office, we're not quite sure how to undo the damage.