Fate

My approach to this video was to go for somewhat of a dramatic, action video. The way I wanted to edit this was to be as simple as possible. As you start watching the video the pre chorus has alot of drumming going on.. mainly during this whole song the drums are the main source of where I tried to time the scenes. Fear Factory does this alot with their gutiars being enhanced over the drums .. mainly with the double bass beats. So there are alot straight cuts and black flashes but of course are needed or else that part is kinda bleh. The viewer may get a little confused during this part but has plenty of time during the chorus to regroup his/her state of mind lol.

For the verses I tried to go for simple editing but with a few effects. During the vocal distortions some effects i used were various blurs and bightness adjustments and what not. I think it turned out pretty good. It up to the viewer to decide if i pulled it off just right, though.

As for all the choruses the editing is straight forward. Throughout the whole video the choruses were the simplest parts to edit. Mainly the music was arranged there was no need for any sort of effects. I just went for straight cuts and flow of the scenes. if you notice all the scenes have some sort of motion or some fighting involveing sword clashes and explosions. I timed the music to the anime.. not white and black flashes. So basically to make it short.. the chorus was edited the way it was to go for the best flow that it could acheive.

As for the bridge (right after the 2nd chorus and before the 3rd chorus) i did the same kind of editing as the very beginning mostly excluding the black flashes. Instead i included brightness and contrast adjustments to replace the black flashing. And also you notice the noise and blur effects I used to kinda work with the Vocalist's screams. I think it worked well instead of doing the straight cuts with every bass and snare drum beat. It was a nice little change :).

As for the last chorus.. where the pace is a little faster i just went for flow once again but i guess to try to add a little more i flashed scenes of pictures with Fuma, Kamui, and Kotori in them. It kinda is a rememberance thing while Fuma and Kamui fight.


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Anime: X  (Movie)
Music: Fear Factory – Digimortal