Excel In Concert

thundercatlord · Post by **thundercatlord** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:50 pm

Well I had the idea for this video in my head for a long time, but wouldn't attempt it until I had some Photoshopping type experience. This song is so random, and guess what? So is Excel Saga! This was a perfect match there were so many parts in the anime that matched the song perfectly.

And thus, after a lot of hard work, frame by frame... here it is, in it's complete glory! Excel in Concert, with Key, Lord Ilpalazzo, and Excel performing!

Please leave comments or leave opinions, this video has been entered into Sakura Con's 2008 AMV contest, and I would love to know what you all think

And don't be put off by the fact that it is in WMV format, it's just because it makes the file a manageable size so I can upload it here.

purplepolecat · Post by **purplepolecat** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:22 pm

This was awesome. Nice job with the scene selection, I can't believe you got a scene to fit with almost every one of those 2-word non sequitur lines. I thought the song was an odd choice but it worked despite the weird pacing.

Of course, I am biased towards fun Excel videos

thundercatlord · Post by **thundercatlord** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:03 pm

Thanks for the kind words as alway, purplepolecat. Now, quick tell everyone to download it lol! Seriously, it was a lot of fun making this one.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:21 pm

Yes, this was awesome. I didn't like the beginning with the four screens, and there were a few times I felt like you left some of the scenes onscreen for a bit too long (like from 1:29-1:36, or 1:59-2:12), but overall this was a really fun, if random video. Nice lip sync, too.

Only thing that could have used some really big improvement was the quality...it's really, really blurry, and some of those zooms just made it worse.

I give this 4/5. Keep up the nice work!

blabbler · Post by **blabbler** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:46 pm

The power of greyskull compels me to download this, will let you know what I think in a bit.

*edit*

That was thoroughly awesome, if a tad short. Fortunately that excel saga bonus stuff was really cool too, which compensated more than adequately.

DoomDragon6 · Post by **DoomDragon6** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:50 pm

That was quite enjoyable. I was mostly taken in by all the photoshop work, which seems to be what you said was new for you, sooo.. Good job!

I'd give you an x out 5, but I'm new here. I don't feel like a newb should be throwing those out. =P

thundercatlord · Post by **thundercatlord** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:49 am

CrackTheSky wrote:Yes, this was awesome. I didn't like the beginning with the four screens, and there were a few times I felt like you left some of the scenes onscreen for a bit too long (like from 1:29-1:36, or 1:59-2:12), but overall this was a really fun, if random video. Nice lip sync, too.

Only thing that could have used some really big improvement was the quality...it's really, really blurry, and some of those zooms just made it worse.

I give this 4/5. Keep up the nice work!

1:29-1:36, and 1:59-2:12 were meant to be like that, I wanted it like that for the pacing of the video. Also the version uploaded to the org is a smaller version than my High Quality version, that could be part of the quality issues. But yeah, I can see what you mean. Thank you for the feedback!

thundercatlord · Post by **thundercatlord** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:54 am

blabbler wrote:The power of greyskull compels me to download this, will let you know what I think in a bit.

*edit*

That was thoroughly awesome, if a tad short. Fortunately that excel saga bonus stuff was really cool too, which compensated more than adequately.

By the "bonus" part... do you mean the end, where it says: "Today's Experiment...Great Success!!" ? Or something else?

blabbler · Post by **blabbler** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:41 am

I meant the excel saga stuff, in its entirety.

My wit, it is often said, is a truly remarkable thing.

Mellifluously yours,
blabbler

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:21 am

Outstanding. I think Crackerz about summed up the good points.

But, good sir, we need to have a talk about formatting. For someone who can do all that masking work, I find it hard to believe you couldn't crop out the letter boxing and resize to 640x480, export out lossless, and place in an appropriate codec and container. This did effect your masking, especially at 3:20 where the screen aspect ratio was way off. These are easily correctable, provided you still have your original project files. We can certainly help you do this.

BTW, I worked for AMC Theatres for six years in high school and college (I was a projectionist), and I ADORED your AMV Theatres spoof of the corporate logo. A brilliant touch few will find as amusing as myself, I know.