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by remus_damascus » Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:00 am
I think I was too tired. Now I'm definetly going to deeply analyze this one!
I couldn't understand the plot because I didn't make the connections to the white haired guy and the guy in the mask. I just realized they were the same guy. Again, I was tired. lol
Alright. I'll start saying that I didn't like how it ends. You start with a character and finish with another character. It still makes sense, but we shall never forget that the main character is the one which we really get to know. And knowing his feelings in the end of the video is goddamn important. Otherwise it will remain a doubt, like an unfinished song.
Hm, we can see that the use of the colors in this anime is great. I think you did noticed that and made a good use of it. See how it starts with deep, sad, cold blue; going to a morbid, misty, bloody green with details in red; then to a golden redish yellow. That is all inside one character. As his past is presented to us, we then realize that he's destined to live a redish violet destiny guided by his feelings of guilt and inferiority complex.
Introduction
Blue scene
You started it very well, presenting us with a bell tower surrounded by crows. You don't show him just looking up, you give us the subject of interaction. He looks frightened as his eyes tremble when he looks to that bell tower. We can also see dead people around him and we ask ourselves: Who are all those people? Did he kill them? Were them his friends?
Were them relatives that had the same goal as him? Is it something to do with that castle? It's hard to state something just by knowing someone has a huge inferiority complex. Somethings are just a secret.
Green scene
I did enjoy how you used his eyes to create a transition between one scene and another, while having the same main character as the center of the video. Now we see him surrounded by dead people again. Some of them are standing up. He looks just as frightened as before.
Yellow scene
We can see him pretty young here, gazing a castle. Well, I actually think this part got really confused. And here's why:
1st img - Castle
2nd img - Eyes crying
3rd img - Abstract overall look of the situation making him small before the castle
4th img - frightened eyes opening
5th img - continuation of the 4th, a dolly zoom that enhances the fact that hes frightened
6th img - showing castle in a contre-plongee
Well, we're all playing with emotions here. It's all about emotions. The song writers and composers of the song you used thought about the "emotion progress" that listeners would have. It's not different with video. Here's how I think it would look better:
1-4-5-6-2-3
Here the introduction meets its end. I must say you did a really good job with it.
Main part of the AMV - Present
Now we're taken to his "normal colored" present. Where you present us with a woman lying on a bed and him weeping about his past. I was amazed by how you used simple "fade outs" and managed to get such a good result. They go along really well with the song's silent parts. We can also say that those fade outs got along with his own sadness. It's all working really well. This part was very good.
You present us with probably the most relevant revelation about him, which is the fact that he's self punishing himself. There's a mix of images of torturation tools and that woman having sexual pleasure and we can relate all that to his self punishing scheme. Then there's a fade out over his defeated looking face. Nice.
Now we see a sun and we see him opening his frightened eyes again. Judging by that fact that he's wearing his mask and his face looks dirty, we could say he just finished fighting, or just killing people, or whatever. He looks more frightened as an eclipse takes its place and dead people start walking towards him. Now we get a first glimpse of his violet colored destiny. The fade out in this part is simply amazing too.
Main part of the AMV - Revelations
You present us an embryo, with the flashes of another man. As we try to create a relationship between him and the embryo, we then realize that is the main character who's inside that embryo. What's the connection between him and that man? Why has he become an embryo?
An abstract looking image of the main character diving into the darkness and leading to the eyes of that mysterious man, guides us to their past.
They fought against each other. Our main character loses, demonstrating how frustrated he feels. And there is where you realize that this man has a huge inferiority complex, losing was just not an option.
The same abstract looking image now leads us to him laying in a bed, taking the shape of an inverted cross. You did a pretty amazing job here, matching these two scenes together.
Now the abstract image leads us to his final stage inside that embryo, which is him getting rid of all that remaining good there was inside of him, making flourish that dark inner self he had growing inside him for so long.
Main part of the AMV - Consequences
Along with that mysterious man, we testify the main character's before and after. That was trully amazing, if you managed to find the two scenes where he appeared in a contre-plongee in almost the same way. But I'm assuming they were already close together, as they fit so well.
We see that our main character has a girl in his hands. And we see that this girl and the mysterious guy had a past together. It gets finally clear that our main character wants to take his revenge for losing that battle in which he couldn't lose. The flashbacks of her and the mysterious guy are too short. They could last a little more, so you could really shock the viewers that haven't watched the anime. Although it's already pretty shocking.
I also noticed she had a tattoo, and I think that's not quite relevant to the story told in your video. Looks like the guy blinds himself so he couldn't see what was happening, which is our main character sexually abusing of that poor girl. Brilliant. I guess.
Conclusion
Here's where you should have finished showing the main character and how he was after all that. You could at least put him on the sky that the mysterious guy was tiredly and sadly looking at.
I learned a lot from this amv of yours. Really.
I never thought that a fade out proceeding sadness and followed by the silence of the song could look and sound so good.
This is a 3 hour masterpiece, congratulations.
Oh, I also disliked how you used those black cuts in the end of the video so you could sync to the snares. Couldn't you use more flashback images maybe?
Oh yea, not to mention the "flip vertically" thing haha
