By far, this is the best pokeshipping AMV I have ever seen. The mood you set is absolutely perfect. The dramatizing techniques you utilize are without flaw. You either are very experienced or have a natural talent for making video. You do so much that I can’t even begin to list it all (like fading one still image to another still image to simulate motion). I am going to assume you know exactly what you did and suggest that you keeping doing it. I am going to be rather presumptuous and attempt to criticize your video. Any comments I may have are merely nitpicking and of the level of detail that I wouldn’t bother with anyone else because you truly did a good job.
The biggest thing is actually not your fault but YouTube. Why ruin your video by dropping the quality? I would love to see a high quality version. Get some better source video next time and don’t upload it to youtube. Instead,
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php is a much better site for quality AMVs. Youtube tends not to have anything good, just random junk people have thrown together (which is why I was surprised when I saw your vid). Also, next time, try to be more ambitious with your music. The song you picked was great and much better then some modern garbage. It was appropriate and the video matched well. But, it was a bit dull. Something more dynamic will help your next video significantly.
Also, be careful about which parts of a scene you choose to show. Sometimes, the lips moving without words don’t work well. When a viewer sees lips moving, they naturally expect words behind them. In some cases, the words are rather generic and obvious so not hearing them doesn’t matter (a number of anime actually do this). In an amv, you don’t have any spoken words at all, so you must be very careful about lips moving. For example, if you someone standing in the wind and then they say a few profound words, you don’t want to show that in an amv. Instead, just reshow the first few seconds with the wind again and again simulating the motion. We can’t guess at the words spoken and it is best not to try. Just silently looking into the distance with the wind blowing, is a powerful image all on its own. An excellent example of this is 1:40-1:45. You could have just done still shots there. They are saying stuff that is probably rather important but it is a bit hard for a viewer to understand. Then at 1:46, we see misty and Brock there. They say some stuff with the setting sun behind them. Now, in that case, it is appropriate for you to leave the talking in. A viewer has an easy time understanding that. 2:12 is another example of where it is alright. At 2:27, it is not obvious what on earth is going on, so the talking doesn’t help; it only confuses it. At 2:32, Misty shows up and probably says a greeting of some sort. There it is alright. From the look on Misty’s face at 2:34, what she is saying is apparent. She is mad and whining about something, so the talking is alright there. At 2:38, it is rather up to you. It depends on what you are trying to show there. Ash can be taken as trying to explain himself to Misty who we just saw as upset or he could be protecting something. If he is explaining himself, the lip moving is good. If you were trying to show him protecting something, then the talking messes up the scene. The arms are the most important part and are just ignored because of the talking. You made an excellent video and I would love to see another one from you. Please keep up the good work.
sorry
