Man, it's so fun seeing these old names popping up. These vids were all a total nostalgia trip for me. Glad to hear from you again!dwchang wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:45 pmI have not made an AMV or been involved in the community for years, but like others, got a notification via e-mail and decided to check it out.
Alan thank you for your efforts in recreating these. It was a trip down memory lane. For some, these memories go back almost 20 years and it was great to relive them again.
Take care!
There is no doubt this video enjoyed massive popularity back in the day, and it deserved it. It was a fun and entertaining video using both an anime and a song that people loved. And it was able to break through that barrier of just being popular among AMV fans, and become known among anime fans in general.Katranat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:22 pmFirst of all there's the nostalgia factor. It took hold right around when Rammstien was getting big, combined with being one of the few competently edited videos to their work it got super popular so a lot of people loved it.
Second is the lip syncing. I agree the technical aspect of this could have been done better, however I adore the scene selection in these parts as I feel the characters expressions are very well matched to the tone of the song/video. I especially enjoy when Shinji is the one singing.
Third the tone of the video. This is something I can see people getting confused at. Overall the video is quite tongue in cheek but it does also get a bit heavy, I quite like the balance between these two that the video has.
Finally, probably one of my favourite parts of any AMV is 2.19 - 2.28. The clip is onscreen for almost 10 seconds and it manages to sync to two different people singing, plus the little pop sound at the end. Now I have no idea how much the clip is edited to fit that, but still it's something that has inspired some of my own editing style.
I agree that some of the lip sync scenes are chosen well, although none of them are particularly well-made technically. However, I think there are also several scenes that are chosen horribly. Like, the whole section with Misato and that ship captain who randomly appeared in that one episode. WHY is that even in the video? WHY did we change away from lip synching Asuka and Shinji to these 2 characters? And WHY do both Misato and the Captain lip sync to the same voice?!! It's as if he just put that in as a placeholder clip and then never found anything to replace it with.
The scene you enjoyed at 2:19 is fairly straightforward, just a few simple cuts, no masking or anything (I believe there was only a single scene in the whole video that used a bit of masking). The technical inaccuracy of the lip sync in general is one thing that really bugs me about this video. For the most part, he just lets clips run and the flapping lips manage to sync up fairly well. There might be a few cuts here and there to keep things looking alright, but that's about it. This is in contrast to the Believe video, where the lip sync was carefully done frame by frame. I just really think that a lot of the lip sync in Engel could have been much better if he had spent only 5-10 more minutes on each scene... that's all it would have took!
And that is mainly what bugs me about this one. It's the only one of his videos where I have thought, "man, if he just spent a little more time on this it could have been so much better".
