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  • User Name: rfblues
  • Member Since: Tuesday, March 6, 2001, 1:07 AM
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  • Profile: Cowboy Blues
    November 2000, I was nearing the height of my Cowboy Bebop fandom and inspired by anime music videos produced by Aluminum Studios I decided to take a shot at it myself. It took me four months to complete the video. The process was a lot of fun and at the time I was reasonably satisfied with the final product, my first forray into video editing. However, despite support from friends and family, it took just one review from a veteran anime music video editor to quell my enthusiasm.

    The original video was, frankly, not quite in-sync with the song. Though my goal was to examine and appreciate every facet of Spike, the mood was inconsistent and the action did not flow with any sense of coherency. Worst of all, the video suffered from a few bouts of unintentional lip-syncing, a convention I personally loathe unless the video is intended to be completely comical.

    I had always wanted to fix the video's faults but I truly did not know how to go about it. Thus, I went on to work on other video projects to gain a bit more experience in editing.

    Jet’s Sons
    The idea for this Jetsons parody came to me while I was showering one morning. For me, the best ideas in general seem to come during that time. That same day, I completed the video with the aid of an outline. Since then I've learned just how invaluable outlines for these projects are.

    The Gunslinger
    This is still what I consider my personal best. The process was was quick and clean and allowed me to play with nearly every single action scene featuring Trigun's Vash The Stampede. It was a conscious decision not to incorporate the final battle between Vash and Knives and I think it pays off. The title overlay at the start of the video was a nod to Peter Jackson's film version of the Rings trilogy. The title itself is a nod to the first book of Stephen King's Dark Tower Saga.

    Dragons Of Destruction
    This video was intended to solely to be an editing exercise. It doesn't tell a coherent story and is pretty much straight action. The goal was to top the Trigun video but in retrospect I don't think this one was up to snuff.

    The New Cowboy Blues
    Three projects later (five if you count school projects), with much more experience under my belt I decided to tackle this project again. Though there were elements from the original video I simply loved, I knew I had to re-edit it completely. I started fresh but had my favorite parts from the first attempt in mind.

    The ultimate goal this time was for the video to tell a coherent story while keeping the footage in-sync with the music, pretty much the basic goal of any conventional music video. To begin with, The segment with the rose's color fading to red from the intro of the series (and the video) was completely re-edited with flashes of Spike's past, bits and pieces featured in the final episodes, dispersed within the sequence. After the rest of his past plays out, one scene after another, the video shifts to his life as a bounty hunter, his various relationships since his "first death," his streak of violence and the return of figures from his past. This one was one of the most difficult but also one of the most rewarding projects I've worked on.

    Pedro: The Movie (Kill "That Man")
    My favorite parts of Excel Saga are without a doubt the Pedro bits. The poor immigrant worker truly is a tragic figure yet you can't help but laugh at his constant misery and misfortune. I always wanted to string his story together as a singular movie and what better way to do it than as an AMV? The biggest obstacle initially was finding the right song. Though consistently tragic the overall pace of Pedro's story shifts and becomes more and more bizarre as the series rolls along. However, looking at it as a whole, the narrative can be separated into three acts without much difficulty. So I settled on using shortened cuts of three soundtrack tunes, one for each act respectively (technically four songs if you count the tiny prologue). The most challenging goal, made even more difficult without the use of dialogue, and the key to making this project work was to tell a coherent story. Naturally, a few of the more irrelevant Pedro moments from the series were omitted. The format of this video and the music is cleary inspired (stolen) from Kill Bill. This was truly an ambitious, very challenging project. I'm incredibly satisfied with the way it turned out.

global average

  • Count231938
  • Originality8.47
  • Visual Quality8.37
  • Audio9.00
  • Action Sync8.45
  • Lip Sync8.24
  • Special Effects8.49
  • Effort8.60
  • Re-view-ability7.92
  • Overall8.43

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average received

  • Count36
  • Originality8.08
  • Visual Quality8.86
  • Audio9.17
  • Action Sync8.08
  • Lip Sync7.67
  • Special Effects8.00
  • Effort8.56
  • Re-view-ability8.09
  • Overall8.53

10 FAVORITE ANIME

1.
Cowboy Bebop
2.
Giant Robo
3.
Serial Experiments Lain
4.
GunGrave
5.
Wolf's Rain
6.
Big O, The
7.
Trigun
8.
Vision of Escaflowne, The
9.
Boogiepop Phantom
10.
Tenchi Muyo! (OAV)

My Videos (6)

  • Pedro: The Movie (Kill "That Man") (2004-10-04)
    [hits: 1260][opinions: 0]
    • Tomoyasu Hotei Battle Without Honor or Humanity
    • Nora Orlandi Dies Irae (M9)
    • Luis Bacalov The Grand Duel - (Part Prima)
    • Bernard Girard-Christophe Sunny Road to Salina
    • Excel Saga
    • Action
    • Character Profile
    • Comedy
    • Fun
    • Parody
    • Local
  • Cowboy Blues (New) (2004-08-13)
    [hits: 3393][opinions: 6]
    • The Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Action
    • Character Profile
    • Drama
    • Local
  • Dragons Of Destruction (2003-12-15)
    [hits: 1180][opinions: 1]
    • Masami Ueda S
    • X (OVA)
    • X (TV)
    • Action
    • Local
  • The Gunslinger (2003-08-29)
    [hits: 1364][opinions: 0]
    • Juno Reactor Pistolero (Radio Edit)
    • Trigun
    • Action
    • Character Profile
    • Local
  • Jet's Sons (2003-06-22)
    [hits: 1125][opinions: 2]
    • Hanna Barbera The Jetsons
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Action
    • Comedy
    • Fun
    • Parody
    • Local
  • Cowboy Blues (2001-02-14)
    [hits: 6053][opinions: 27]
    • The Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Action
    • Character Profile
    • Drama
    • No