AMV Salad 6...next stop: ZENKAIKON

[Gaelstrom]

Thanks moonbunnychan!

this is the most recent German dance:
http://youtu.be/i7E0EMUHoOk


...and another one I'm working on (that is not working quite as well as envisioned):
http://youtu.be/dc3G7wGwM4U

God I hate how youtube's being... I keep having to reload because it keeps skipping whole clusters of frames on me. Oh well.

Anyway, as I feared there were subtle moving bits in the background, so there's a noticeable snap. I think the best way to fix that and keep the loop is probably to duplicate one repetition of him going both directions and reverse the footage, then duplicate it again in the correct direction and that should HOPEFULLY make it a non-issue. It'll still be going back and forth, but it won't snap. Plus the nature of the song might make that work for the joke ^^

Again, only other thing that I think will really make it funnier is if the witch hits the left and right sides of his sway to the beat of the music. I think it'll just come off like the witch is that much more 'into it' and make it that much more ridiculous ^^ Madoka's reactions are better. The blink may be a bit close, but it gets the idea across. If only there was a single scene in the anime of her just like " "

For the nom nom one... yeah, currently my impression is it's not where it could be, like you said. I can see where you were going with it, but I think a big issue is the music starts, but there's no context, and the context comes in at the end after a bunch of rather confusing and creepy Andy Warhol-esge footage ^^ You could try to play with it, but this one may be one of those ideas we laugh at in our heads but is hard to communicate.

[moonbunnychan]

I was using my cell phone to record it. lol.
Anime USA is a smaller con...I wanna say there was around 30 people watching it.
I was really disappointed too that I didn't get Reheated because it was such a positive reaction. Plus I held my arm up that long for no reason. It was really starting to hurt by the time 5 came on lol. I'll have to figure out what I did that made it either not save or delete so I won't do it again.

One thing to take from this though, is I don't know how well you notice it in the video, and part of it was due to the general technical difficulties and them having to kind of McGuyver it into working, but we should probably be more careful about putting things like text on the very edges of the screen, as depending on how it's being projected, has a tendency to get cut off. In Otakon i'ts not a problem because they aren't projecting it off a laptop, but if it is it cuts off like that. And you just never know how it's gonna be played.

[Gaelstrom]

I was using my cell phone to record it. lol.
Anime USA is a smaller con...I wanna say there was around 30 people watching it.
I was really disappointed too that I didn't get Reheated because it was such a positive reaction. Plus I held my arm up that long for no reason. It was really starting to hurt by the time 5 came on lol. I'll have to figure out what I did that made it either not save or delete so I won't do it again.

One thing to take from this though, is I don't know how well you notice it in the video, and part of it was due to the general technical difficulties and them having to kind of McGuyver it into working, but we should probably be more careful about putting things like text on the very edges of the screen, as depending on how it's being projected, has a tendency to get cut off. In Otakon i'ts not a problem because they aren't projecting it off a laptop, but if it is it cuts off like that. And you just never know how it's gonna be played.

Damn, on your cell? That was damn good for a cell!

I'm not sure why the text was cut off, it shouldn't have made a difference that it was on a laptop... wonder what caused it. Oh well, I always use the safe frames, but this was different. The entire bottom was cut off, there's no way to prepare for that really. That was a good 4th of the screen. Guess we just have to thank our blessings that while Otakon has been anal about how things are shown, the quality of the showing speaks for itself.

[moonbunnychan]

I've seen it happen a bunch...not just for Salads but my own videos in AMV contests. I have no idea why it happens and this one was more extreme then ever...but I'm always way careful now to keep things inside the safe zone. I've noticed that, for whatever reason, if a projector is hooked directly to a dvd player it doesn't happen, but if it's running off a computer, it usually does.

[Squancho]

To clarify...
The video wasn't the problem at first.
It was the fact of the projector behind the screen in front of the secondary main events room and the laptop running the DVD at the back of the room made connecting the two rather difficult.
It took mobile video ops a half-hour to find enough cable to run the length of the room.
As far as the video, they were running VLC and had the wrong resolution setting for display, thus cutting off the bottom of the frame.
That's never happened before.
But we had fun prior to ReHeated.
Someone has video of me (as Excalibur Mustang) conducting the audience in a rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and rocking out on bass guitar to "Don't Stop Believin."
Anyway, I brought up the fact at the con feedback panel that there was insufficient equipment for the rooms I was running presentations in and the head of video ops stepped up and took the hit for it.
But yeah...the gal with the bass sitting next to me was DYING during ReHeated.

[Gaelstrom]

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[Gaelstrom]

Hey, Deuce, are we going to shoot for Reheated and 6 showing at Otakon this year? Like one on Classic night and one on New night? If that practice is still in existence of course.

Either way, if possible before Otakon I'd like to see if we can get away with another quick re-ordering of the clips. I think it can get a bit stronger, plus laughter overlap seems like it'll still be an issue.

[SammySamaProductions]

re we going to shoot for Reheated and 6 showing at Otakon this year?

Since the current re-heated is a prelude to Salad 5, will there be clips from the new salad added into it for the precursor to 6? Didn't know if that's where your train of thought was going.

[Gaelstrom]

That is true, by next summer we'd technically have to add 5 clips to it to make it a complete collection, but it's already a half hour. Personally I think 5 will be fresh enough in the audience's mind that we don't necessarily need clips from it, and there's something 'classic' about the clips chosen, so I like how it is, I just think the layout can still be stronger. I guess with Otakon we could make it like 40-45 minutes if we wanted to try and get more in, but we also don't want to 'overstay our welcome' as it were.

I admit it's for selfish reasons as usual... I want reaction vids of the stuff I have no reaction vids for in a giant audience Plus I want to hear some of the other clips from 4 in a place with better audio!

I don't exactly know how Salad panels go, but since we premiere stuff in fanparodies, should we try and make a panel this year? I think it'd be best to do a fanparodies panel with Scott and anyone else who's done a parody, really. Be cool to be a part of it and see what comes of it.

[Gaelstrom]

Deuce, not sure if you heard from Scott, but I went ahead and asked him if we could do a sort of "Otakon Edition" of AMVS Reheated with a few extra minutes (40 seemed to be the number he accepted) so we can include a few more good ones. Such as we can fit in all the Geico Monies now so it flows like it did in AMVS4, plus a few that were shaved off, plus a few more. Or we can keep it at like 34 minutes or something, doesn't matter.

Anyway, I figured that was cool, we can bring back even more of the fun ones! What do you think? I still want to revamp the order a bit more one way or another before we get too far into AMVS6. I'm about to get started on my first major one (which was kinda started last year but didn't finish in time) and already have a good bunch of ideas to work with this year. Now I have more skill, I can try and pull off some of the more complex ones I couldn't try before.