Evangelion - Bad Moon Rising music video

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-01-29 03:47pm

I finally got around to putting this up on animemusicvideos.org after having cut the finished version last year and adding title cards in the summer.

Link (membership required for d/l, but signing up is free & simple)

It's various clips from Evangelion set to John Fogerty's Bad Moon Rising, and yes I put in the work and thought to make over 100 cuts and scynchronize it to the sound, so it's not just 8-10 random clips like some vidoes are. It's about 2 1/2 minutes long, 25mb. I consider its style/theme to be serrious, or at least played straight since there is some stuff that could be considered amusing about it.

I rather like it anyway. Check it out if you've got the chance.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-01-31 05:51pm

I've personally always been impressed with this video. Although you say that you have a "clunky sense of tempo/rhythm," I think that the timing of your cuts are excellent, if maybe a little too rapid at times, but that's mostly due to the song and the connections you seem to want to make with the visuals. Also, I like your image choices in regards to connecting them to the music and lyrics. Not too broad, but not too narrow, either. And I know you consider this trivial, but I like how you're not afraid to avoid some clips and scenes that most videos seem to avoid, either due to content or spoiler materials.

This isn't just another banal overly-edited or lazy image-manipulated video set to a Top 40 disposable pop or rock song, people, this is genuine talent: the real deal. So if you can, take a look, give a comment, and above all, spread the word. It's a shame that stuff like this doesn't get the recognition it deserves...

It's not fucking awesome or absolutely hillarious, but just the end result of a great concept worked on by true talent.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-01-31 06:41pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote: This isn't just another banal overly-edited or lazy image-manipulated video set to a Top 40 disposable pop or rock song, people, this is genuine talent: the real deal.

Actually, most videos' problems are they're under-edited. I made the effort of cutting almost every clip (or maybe every single clip, I never recall) rather than keeping them intact in their original 5+ second sequences of clips because in my experience the only videos with whole sequences of action that impress me are from series I haven't seen. If I had only edited together 6-10 ~20 second scenes for a music vidoe I wouldn't be able to watch it.

It's a shame that stuff like this doesn't get the recognition it deserves...

It might, who knows. It's only been a few days and I've already got 90 vies, over 40 d/ls and about 4/5 stars. It certainly isn't in the same bracket as, say, Tricky, Shonen Productions' Bohemian Rhapsody, Odori Kuruu, or other masterfullly-assembled outright classics, but I think it's up to par with the good solid vidoes out there that people like.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-01-31 07:55pm

i´ll DL it when i´m at uni. but here i´m stuck with a isdn connection.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-01-31 11:52pm

It's not bad, but I just don't like the music

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-01 01:48am

Exonerate wrote:It's not bad, but I just don't like the music

Heathen.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-02-01 01:59am

Ruh-roh, maybe its problem is the video and song combination; perhaps liking the music and appreicating the visuals is mutally exclusive.

Or maybe it's just Exonerate, he's weird like that.

I need to put my non-amv videos under the Head Cancer label and put them up on the net somewhere along with my other projects, speaking of which.

aten_vs_ra · Post by **aten_vs_ra** » 2005-02-01 05:04pm

Bad Moon Rising didn't sound like it would go well with Evangelion, but then my sounder is screwed up.

The only part I didn't like was the clip of Unit 1 getting crucified by the EVA series at 1:03. It doesn't feel right to me with the music there. But still, I really like it. I've been watching it compulsively every few minutes I'm on the computer.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-02-01 11:23pm

Reminds me that I need to start on my AMV.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-01 11:27pm

aten_vs_ra wrote:The only part I didn't like was the clip of Unit 1 getting crucified by the EVA series at 1:03. It doesn't feel right to me with the music there.

Weird, I think it works just fine. An example as to why you shouldn't go 'round tonight.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-02-01 11:48pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
aten_vs_ra wrote:The only part I didn't like was the clip of Unit 1 getting crucified by the EVA series at 1:03. It doesn't feel right to me with the music there.
Weird, I think it works just fine. An example as to why you shouldn't go 'round tonight.

It might be a li'l bit awkward, but I let it slide because for one it's another scene that fits with the general 'bad shit goin down'

theme, and it was actually edited down to proper lenth and pacing; about eight edits to a 4-5 shot sequence. If I just stuck it in there as-is I would definitely find it jarring.

But better to have a few awkward scenes than to be overall slightly awkward.

And better still to be slightly awkward overall than to have just another Naruto video set to Linkin Park or Inu Yasha set to even more Linkin Park.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-02-02 02:32am

The best Naruo episodes are set to Sifil and Ollie.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2005-02-02 03:32am

Very very good. I think it was paced really well, not too fast and not too slow. Good choice of footage also.

Personally, I've always wanted to do an Evangelion video set to Goodnight Saigon...

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-02-02 04:06am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:The best Naruo episodes are set to Sifil and Ollie.

Those are great. I don't think I could watch any more of Naruto than the 2-3 episodes I've seen unless they were dubbed with voices like those.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-02 05:19pm

Speaking of videos, how far are you on that Eva video set to They Might Be Giants' "She's an Angel"? As far as I can remember, you at least started laying down a rough edit template.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-02-02 09:39pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Speaking of videos, how far are you on that Eva video set to They Might Be Giants' "She's an Angel"? As far as I can remember, you at least started laying down a rough edit template.

Have not done any further work on it. The video capturing process is very clunky and I haven't been in the mood to tackle that task.