Anime Music Videos
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Onegai Teacher Opening - She«
I used this video as a way of learning the ropes on a better method of ripping DVDs than I was using. It actually fits very well, but be forewarned: it is only the opening of the TV show, the only modification I made to it was the fade out at the end. There is some trail material at the beginning.
Anime: Please, Teacher!
How Not To Be Seen
Anyway, I tried to use all the anime series I had at my disposal in making this video. I borrowed a couple of my sister's DVDs, and a couple of disparate sources I had lying around.
A note on the editing technique: this is a video of a Monty Python skit. Therefore, I used the exact same editing techniques that were used in the original skit, which means a lot of long clips (even though most of them are still images). The only deviations from the original editing are the three times I show the people first-my only excuse for this is to use as many different series as I could, but since they don't stand up or are otherwise seen, I thought I'd point out what they would look like, if they did stand up.
This also caused almost everyone in the anime club I belong to at my school to crack up laughing, so enjoy.
SPHS Anime Club Commercial«
I'm in my school's(St. Pete High) Anime Club. The club's president asked me if I was willing to do a commercial promo that could be aired on the school's morning announcements. I agreed, and started formulating ideas.
By the end of the meeting, I had determined that I was going to do a trailer-like promo that would showcase different elements commonly found in anime. Yes, I did know this concept had been done in videos before, but I threw in one thing I hadn't seen into the mix-using sound clips of famous quotes from live-action movies.
Another idea I had was to have background music playing, and at one particular point, to have it suddenly amplify and showcase the action elements. This stayed in. I immediately knew what song I wanted to use-"Neodämmerung" from The Matrix Revolutions.
The actual process of the video getting made was quite long. I couldn't get ahold of some of the clips I wanted to use, and so I made do with what I had. I also had a very busy work schedule while I was working on it, so that made it pretty hard to spend time on it as well. So basically, it took a couple weeks to plan, a few days to do the basic dubbing, and about six or seven hours to finally compile (with about five or six hours to get the file encoded right because XviD kept screwing up and DivX 5.1 is a pile of steaming bullcrap. I finally had to redownload DivX 5.0.5 and encode it with that-DivX 5.0.5 rocks, long and hard).
In any case, this video is definitely worth all the problems and setbacks and time that I had to put into it. I might go back after Advent Children and Please Twins are fully released in America and remaster it from scratch (possibly refining the lipsynch on it as well). I don't know about that yet, though..
Akira Ifukabe - Gojira no Kyoku 54-74 [Solace In Destruction]«
A couple weeks ago I was browsing the Apple Quicktime Trailers site and found that Godzilla (the 1954 version) was being re-released in the States uncut, undubbed, and unedited (how uncut and unedited can actually be used to describe different aspects of the movie I have no idea) - in other words, it's going to be released here to American cinemas as it was originally shown in Japan 50 years ago, except with the obvious inclusion of subtitles to allow people who don't speak Japanese to know what the actors are saying.
Well, after seeing this (and downloading the trailer) I realized that the old Godzilla battle theme is a really, really cool piece of instrumental music. I don't know, something about that trailer on the Quicktime site reignited my fond childhood memories of Godzilla and I wanted to pay some sort of homage to it I guess (and hopefully to make amends for the horrible things I'd made with that "inspiration" back when I was 8).
The way this video is set up is like a battle royale of sorts. The first third of the video (which actually takes up about half the length of the vid) is showing one side rising up (for general purposes, let's call this side the 'evil' side, even though some of the characters aren't necessarily 'evil' per ce, although some of them are). The second third of the video shows the 'good' side rising up (this actually would be accurate, since all of these characters are heroes in their respective series or movies). The final third implies that they're duking it out, since I show some scenes of the characters on both sides involved in the heat of battle. The video closes with two of the 'evil' characters (these two are ambiguous, really) looking over the destruction that has been caused, and then it fades to black. The video never actually shows just what the sides are fighting about (much like many of the Godzilla movies - not many of them actually tell why Godzilla is coming up to stomp around Tokyo - or whereever - but he just does, simple enough. Actually, isn't that the only real reason for having a Godzilla movie in the first place? Needless monster battles and/or random destruction at the sake of no real purpose or lot? Very few of the Godzilla movies have ever had a really involved plot; those that do, however ridiculous they may be, tend to be the ones that people actually remember). When I get around to editing a video to Gojira no Kyoku 84-95, I'll have enough time to set up a reason behind the rampaging; at least, I hope I will.
Special Thanks To CA White at Great White Productions for supplying me with the Kenshin footage
Sugar - Gee Angel (Won't You Take Me Back? [Gee Angel v2.0])«
Alright, well this video is a remake of one I did very early in my AMV hobby (my third video, to be exact-if you want to do a comparison, the original video is available for download here. I basically went back and butchered the original video, leaving *maybe* four or five scenes somewhat intact, and changing everything else.
The basic plot of the video is probably like watching home movies, since it doesn't necessarily have a clearly defined story, although some cues late in the video harken back to other scenes on purpose. Another way of looking at it is kind of like 'Keiichi's been hurt somehow, and it's slowly coming back to him in bits and pieces throughout the video', which would explain why there's so much fragmentation. Either way of looking at it is an easy way to allow the other characters in the series some screen time, and not just Keiichi and Belldandy (even though they have the most, by far).
Anime: Oh My Goddess! OVA
Fox Searchlight - Kinsey Official Trailer Audio [Seta]
There's not much story behind this one, sorry.
I was looking around the Quicktime Trailer site again, and I stumbled across the trailer for "Kinsey", starring Liam Neeson. The trailer itself was somewhat dull until the end, with a somewhat humorous clip that inspired me to do a video for it. Love Hina was the first anime I thought of using, mainly because of that clip. Originally I had planned on having the lipsynching scenes superimposed over the action sequences that I devised, but it didn't work out very well that way, so I decided on doing something that movie studios often do - two different trailers, but using the same audio (ok, movie studios may not do it that way, but they do often make two trailers that are very similar to each other save for the footage used).
One of the versions is a direct mimic of the original trailer. It is simply a conversation. The other version has the action sequence I designed for the middle of the trailer which has cues to some of the things Liam Neeson's character (Dr. Alfred Kinsey) says. I personally like the action version much better. Enjoy!
P.S. I don't intend the clip during the bumper at the end to be part of the 'trailer' - I just thought it was funny to make Shinobu lip-sync that.
Anime: Love Hina, Love Hina Christmas Special, and Love Hina Again
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Jennifer Love Hewitt - How Do I Deal? [Decisions]« After a month of work, I finally finished it. Unlike several of my recent attempts at making videos, I enjoyed producing this one, which is a gigantic relief to me. The high of actually enjoying the editing process has kind of reinvigorated me (of course, there's no telling as to how long that'll last). Oh well. On to the video itself. Well, I couldn't actually believe this song hadn't been used before. That really surprised me, considering how popular it was a few years ago. I remembered this song while I was making up a playlist of 90s music and it just sort of stuck out. I'd been meaning to do another Please, Teacher! video for a while now, and the opportunity presented itself, along with a lot of inspiration, so I went ahead and jumped into editing. The video's plot is a little on the basic side, in that it's still detailing the love triangle in the series involving Kei, Mizuho, and Koishi, but instead of letting it seem as though Kei is committed to Mizuho thoroughout the video, I decided to add in a little angst and give him somewhat of an attitude, progressing from kind of an immature 'I'll have them both' view to actually knowing he has to choose one or the other, and focus on his indecision instead. I intentionally left the decision unresolved, mostly for the intent that it's something he has to work out himself, and I didn't want to show favoritism toward either Mizuho or Koishi (even though it's pretty hard to cultivate the right kinds of scenes I needed with Koishi, but I hoped I pulled that off). Even still, I'm pretty sure Mizuho has more scenes despite it not, IMO, leaning towards her. In a way, the relationship Kei has with Koishi at the beginning of the video is contrasted with his involvement with Mizuho further on in a comparison of growing up, moving from an innocence to a more mature relationship, and the inevitible transition between the two that would undoubtedly cause a lot of friction and some tension. Sorry if I bored anyone with that; that's kind of what I was aiming for, whether or not I acheived that effect is pretty unclear (or, at least, I don't know if it's all that clear to other viewers). Oh well. This is a fun, upbeat video. Have fun. I order it. Anime: Please, Teacher! This website was created by Qyöt27, master editor of ASI Digital Chaos Studios. All references to anime and other entertainment sources are simply that-references. They should not imply that I was the one that made them. The anime series are property of their respective owners.