Round 1 Part 2: Sora92120 vs. Katana

[Katana]

Alrighty, first to five wins and the winner goes on to the next round against either Chaywa or Tidus90. Chaywa and Tidus90 may vote in this thread.

There are some Advent Children clips (and mine is completely AC themed), so you are forewarned.

When you vote, please give your reasons .

Click on the name for access to the vids .


sora92120
Song: "Dawn and Dusk" by Utada Hikaru


Katana
Song: "Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed
Note: Has explicit language

[Whispered.Hope]

Is it possible to put it on YSI? Mega's taking way too long.

[sora92120]

click on my current video part on my signature.

[Mercury Rain]

I can't download Katana's video :( my computer hates megaupload.com...

[sora92120]

i think everybodies computer hates megaupload, it was fine b4 until something happened with it. i was downloading urs katana but it stopped at halfway so i saw half of ur video. good effects but some parts seemed random and didnt fit. im guessing u have adobe premier pro.

[doreo503]

Ok i didn't get to download katana's but i guess since i did download Sora92120, i'm probably gonna go with the fact that since it's by utada that when the time goes to vote, he/she will get my vote. ANd by the way ur song title is wrong, the song is called kremlin dusk by utada on her Exodus 0'4 cd. Just letting u know....

[sora92120]

i know i was gona complain but meh. dawn and dusk is the video title and i put the song title in the credits just to say. i love utada hikaru's singing. too bad shes married

[sora92120]

sorry for double posting but i cant edit my posts anymore :(

just saying sora92120: 1
Katana: 0

[Whispered.Hope]

Murr, I know I saw Sora's vid in that seperate thread that was made in Graphics. I just can't see Katana's. -tries again-

[dual_wielder]

sora92120's because i hate prodigy

[Katana]

I am going to try and put mine on a different uploader. The one that people normally use doesn't generally work for me... what is "prodigy"?

[Isis]

Ok, first off...

@doreo503 and sora92120 who is keeping score: How can you count that as a vote unless both videos have been watched?

And again @ dual_wielder, the song isn't by prodigy... it says so in the first post- did you even watch the video to vote? Plus maybe... it would um you kno be a good idea to judge the video on the combo of music and video and not just whether you like the song or not? Cause if that were the case, then sora92120 would get the lowest rating ever, I hate that song...

Anywayz I am still downoadint the vids-- so I havent' voted yet. just had to comment on that first, be4 I rate hopefully fairly.

[Mercury Rain]

Alright, i decided to download Katana's AMV, even if it takes 3 and half hours... :(

i'll edit this when i got it downloaded.

[chaywa]

Well said Isis...

As i expected a very tough call in this match...both superb AMVs beyond anything i could ever do.

Katana: I hated the song...but that's me. The video was poor in some places, i didn't like the sudden bursts of speed when Kadaj and Rufus fell down the building side...didn't fit particularly well with the music imo. I also didn't like the Sephiroth fight scene, the music in the background ruined some parts of it. However i loved the intro however, the fight scene fitted the music well, as well as most of the first two verses. The ending was excellent as well. And was it me or was the song incredibly quiet???

sora92120: I adored the song...simply superb. The transition between the different games was ultimately incredible...the characters almost fitted perfectly with each other every time. However, i didn't like the FF9 bit around 00:57, but the FF8 transition made up for it. the FFX-2 to AC rocky transition worked well, albeit i think a beat off the scale. The Rikku and Tifa fight scenes were excellent. It got slightly weaker near the end (the AC bike scene to Yuna on the floor was poor). However it was Quite literally superb in pretty much every way imaginable.

I liked both very much, but i'm afraid sora92120 gmv

[Isis]

Alright. Watched both. Hated both of the songs, so I am judging on film clips put together with songs.

@ Sora92120- The first 2 minutes were good. You did a very nice job in matching clips with the song in terms of lyrics anyway, I'm not so sure about the melody. I liked the kairi in front of the door clip and a switch between riku at two point when he has his hand outstretched. But then it fell apart. The clips were completely not fitting to the song... especially the advent children clips and some of the rikku ones. And then at one point when it froze when Yuna was singing was on purpose or not, but it just looked bad. The music was just like random whine, which supposedly you can just put action clips to, that's but somehow it was just really weird. It was too bad the song didn't cut off at two minutes cause then the video would have been fine.

@ Katana- Horrid song... just horrid. Though I must admit it fit the theme for AC pretty damn well. The effects were wicked, the opening was good I liked the down with the sickness and the sephiroth parts when the geostima is effecting Cloud. I thought the effect when it split the video was cool,but I am not sure it fit the song, nd it was just weird when it showed the walking foot on one side and nothing on the other. Like with Sora92120 the video fell apart towards the end. Or rather... the whole cloud and sephiroth part was fureakish. The song just sucked there and it was painful to my ears. And the fact that sephiroth was basically "mommy" was ... distrbing. Kind of hilarious though. It picked up with the last clip and was timed really well though, so a strong finish.

It was hard to compare the two... Sora92120's was so sappy it made me want to hurl. And Katana's was just like O_O in some places. So hard to pick one. I ended up choosing Katana's though it was more inventive Sora's was cliche and Katan's was more focused and I just liked how it worked with the theme of the movie.