Pretty cool, thumbs up.
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Decent video. The biggest issue I see is kind of hard to explain. In the video, there will be parts where you'll have the camera go to a scene where your character stands around for a second, then do whatever it is that he is going to do, then stand there for a second, and then go to the next scene that is the same thing. I'm not sure what to call these parts before and after the action (transitions?), but these take away from the flow of the video. Its like those guys who shoot a video by themselves with themselves in it, but don't cut out the part where they drop everything then walk up to turn the camera off.
Some things also seem randomly thrown together. There are parts where the character attacks, then goes to air guitar for a bit, then does another attack. This abruptly stops the flow of any feelings in the video, since it is throwing different concepts together with no adequate transitions and no rhyme or rhythm to the motions. What you should do is cut out the parts where you go to do something, and instead have the main action of interest be most if not all of the scene. For example, your character should never abruptly go into air guitar in any scene. What should happen is, when one scene transitions to another scene, that other scene should be your character already IN the air guitar emote, which would then transition to another scene where your character is already beating the snot out of some CoT. With clever splicing you can put the air guitar moments during the guitar solos to have the video sync up with the music better, creating more harmony and better flow of concepts.
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Well, thanks for the feedback and I do take on board what you've said. To be fair, if it seems a bit randomly thrown together, that's more or less because it was! Beyond the sound track, and some loose tie in with the RWZ (from the opening lyrics) I didn't really have a concept in mind other than Volk just steaming in and doing his thing with a variety of different enemies. As much as anything that was down to me being a complete video newbie. I didn't know anything about encoding, video compression and only had a basic idea of the editing software I was using. Really was learning on the fly as it were. .
Whilst I do agree with you that some of the guitar emotes were a little out of place with the flow of the music (especially with the first one), I do feel that the timing of the transitions between scenes went in line with changes in verse / chorus. I also wanted to capture that feeling of "bashing out a guitar solo when all hell was breaking loose around me", which again, fits in with the concept of the character. Additionally, I think I did quite well getting some of the key moments of the song to fit in with specific points of the action.
However, with all that said, I'm grateful for your comments and will certainly bear some of those things in mind when I do the next one. Now I know a bit more about everything, I can introduce a bit more planning and a central theme so the whole thing is a little more cohesive.
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Well here it is. I've had the idea of this whirring in my head for a while simply because the song so perfectly fits my character, Volkaniks concept. Never tried doing anything like this before, but I'm delighted how well this has turned out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMHxa...ature=youtu.be
Hope you like it!
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