MSN AMV REVIEW #4

Video: Be A Man
Category: Comedy, Action
Anime: Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann (TV)
Song: I'll Make a Man Out of You
Artist: Donny Osmond
Creator: NightlHlawk
Link:  http://www.animemusicvideos.org/video/158077

REVIEW:


CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Anyway, we're starting with the "be a man" video and we're discussing the lip sync.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
ok, I'll restate what i said with an example too. i think the lipsync was good, but the scenes chosen to sync the lipsync weren't always chosen well. Such as at 2:11, that kinda bugged me since it wasn't a really good scene to lip sync with

Amber says:
I'll agree. The lip sync was good (better than I could do yet), but a couple of times I thought the scenes they picked just seem "off" somehow.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
perhaps they were off, but I was stressing more towards choice of 'uninteresting scenes'

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
I though they were nice. The only ones that bugged me was when he swiched to the third party characters.

Amber says:
That's what I meant.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
2:11 is not an interesting scene, a lot of the others are though

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
And yah, I can see the "boring" aspect. I haven't seen the series, so I have no clue what other scenes were available.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
But I think the lipsync is what "made" the video what it is. Although the thirty second credits was a tad strange.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
the difference in volume of the credit audio hit me pretty badly =/

Amber says:
Oh yeah...

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
But I love how they cut the audio though. There was about another five seconds of audio after it ended, and I liked that.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
but I gotta say, I really like this video, I love this uplifting song, and it was fit in pretty well

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
actually makes me want to watch the series

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
And I felt the same way! I'm looking for the series as soon as I get paid.

Amber says:
I liked the video too. It was kind of fun. I probably won't watch it again though. I've got enough Mulan at home already. And this video got my 7 yr. old's seal of approval as well XD

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
That's what I want AMV's to be. Fun for all ages. I'm sick of the bloody/gory horrific scchinsophrenic videos.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
And that's what this AMV is.

Amber says:
Yeah, it was fun and also had explodies...all 7 yr old boys love explodies.

Amber says:
And also, anything with Donny Osmond automatically rocks in my book XD

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
But what I didn't like about the AMV was it's ending. It looked like one long uncut scene from a robot transformation scene. :\

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
yeah that part sounded like it was tricky to edit with too, since at that point, they drop all the instruments

Amber says:
And I don't know if it was a long uncut scene or not. I've never heard of this series...

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
so the editor probably tried to make it look different, and this is how it ended up

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
It wasn't bad, it was just really unoriginal. I was expecting more of a "bang" for the ending.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
thats true, compared to the rest of the video, the ending lacked a bit

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Lemme see here... Not much else to go on. We've basically touched all bases, since I'm assuming there is no argument on the video quality?

Amber says:
Nope, it looked pretty to me

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
looked pretty nice to me, some places not as good as others, but pretty good overall

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Allrighty then, let's score this puppy. Out of ten, I'd give it an 8.

Amber says:
7 here

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
8.5 from me, just love the uplifting feeling

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Goody then. 7.8 Average!

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Video: Pilot in the Sky of Dreams
Category: Serious, Romance, Drama, etc. (+1)
Anime: Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann (TV)
Song: Pilot in the Sky of Dreams
Artist: Threshold
Creator: Oli.C (Yoüniqüe Productions)
Link:  http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=157041

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Allright, I'm ready. Next video is the " Pilot in the Sy of Dreams" video.

Amber says:
I think I would have liked this one more if the song was different.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
it almost felt like two videos to me

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
at first I thought there were 2 audio sources used

Amber says:
I'm not familiar with the band or anything, but it sounds like they're trying to be some kind of Queen cover band...

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Personally, I liked that aspect. I loved that two genres of editing were used. A very sentimental, yet powerful message.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
I think that 5 minutes was a tad on the long side, though.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
As much as I like dthe first half, I think had it been cut off and the secon dhalf been left on, it could have been better. Or perhaps divided into two different videos.

Amber says:
I like the idea of the video and I liked the storytelling aspect of it...it was just really difficult to get past the song itself for me. Which kind of sucks because on the whole, I liked the vide.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
the sentimental image was nice, especially when it came back to it in the end, but since the video felt like two other videos, it felt somewhat disjoint to me

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Agreed. I liked the song source, but like I've said already, I could have been cut into several different videos and been just as sucessful. On a slighly different note, I loved the scene selection

Amber says:
Oh yeah, me too. I think that's why I'm so upset that I couldn't get into the video that much..because I loved the moments they picked, but not the audio

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
scene selection seemed pretty nice to me, but I think they could have done without the lipsync

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Yea. That just seemed out of place to me. Plus, it was the only one in there too.

Amber says:
I liked when they used the lip sync. To me it seemed like if there was a place to use it, then they chose a nice spot for it.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
well a lot of time with lip sync it seems that it can easily be liked or disliked, just depends on first impressions i think

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Plus it's also based on the editor's likes and dislikes. I very rarely enjoy lip sync.

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
that's also true. a lot of the time I find myself thinking "would I have done the same?" and whenever it seems I say no, I didn't really like the lipsync for it either

Amber says:
I tend to do that as well. I think most people tend to base their opinions of a video on their own particular style.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
Let's see here... Video quality was fine for me.

Amber says:
Same here

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
quality seemed decent, was similar to the previous video, some places better than others for me

Amber says:
That girls eyes are weird, but that's got nothing to do with the video itself.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
So let's score this puppy. I'll give it 7.5/10.00

Steven `џ´ [SF] says:
mmmm 7.5 from me as well

Amber says:
I'm going with a 7 for this one, mostly because I'll probably not watch it again.

CodeChrono *Zack* says:
So 7.30 average.
that might work, just dont throw a new thread in general amv unless you want to start a battle