Team Warfare Round 3 Judging

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3	Æon Studios - M&Ms - Replay Studios & madaraxD	You guys have too much time… Decent reproduction using a random show. Part of the charm of the original is that it doesn't really matter if you've seen Haruhi, it's still just a really fun video to watch. Would've enjoyed some more thought into the concept and played on the "parody" aspect of the theme a bit more. Overall, not bad.
4	Æon Studios - Riot - xDieguitoAMV	Relatively solid video, however... The zoomies are tacky and I feel the video relys on internal sync too much (either via the action or what looks like intentional camera motion). Which is cool but your normal beat/lyric sync feels a little sloppy and uncoordinated. Overall, fun to watch but is a bit too generic and doesn't really keep me interested other than the pretty animation.
5	Æon Studios - Seperate fact and fiction - xLunax	I loved the idea but it needed to be fleshed out a bit more. I understand the time contraints but the whole video feels disjointed and very fast passed. It's jumps around a lot to all sorts of different situations and characters. By the time you're invested in the scene, everything changes. The video is also missing a bit of charm. This kid wishes to be among the heroes and characters he's watchign and reading about but is increadbily... upset all the time? A bit weird. The audio edit is increadibly noticable and unfortunately reinforces that unpolished feeling I mentioned before. All that said, the roto work is very well done, basic sync is very solid.
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7	Chicken Cult - Elevator Jammed - camichan19	Solid video. The basic sync was great but the concept was hard to follow. Felt very random with no correlation to what I was watching and what you might have wanted me to see. As a generic Utena video though, I can't complain. Of course then, theres the end. An abrupt ending ruins a good video. In the future, if you're conrstrained to a time frame, look at editing the audio down. You also deviated from the theme a bit. Not huge, but the theme was "Only one gender" and there are some dudes in there.
8	Chicken Cult - Oblivious Futon-Dwelling Stargazer - PantherMarie1988	I thought this was a fun video. Unfortunately it doesn't really fit the theme very much. It's supposed to be more of a parody, except it's just another video to the same song. Not that it’s a bad thing and probably worked out better that you ended up doing your own thing instead. Basic editing was mostly solid, pacing and scene selection could've been better though. It felt a bit slow and random in the middle but later on things picked up a bit. Overall, could've followed the parody theme but who cares, the video is decent and towards the end enjoyable to watch. With some improvement, could've been a lot better though.
9	Chicken Cult - WHAT TEAM - tonina1981, xAmberMelodies & LullabyLockdown	I liked the concept but it falls a bit flat. That said, I definitely didn't expect a basketball video paired up with HSM. Surprisingly (or not), it worked out mostly well except the execution wasn't the best. The live action parts seemed like they were off or didn't match that part of the song. Editing was alright. There was A LOT of oportunity to do some really awesome editing/sync work with the ball bouncing and shoe squeaking throughout the video, mostly in the beginning. It looks like there was effort there but not enough to make those part stand out and "wow". Missed oportunity. Overall, not bad but could've benifited from a lot more polish.
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11	Dangowaffles - Crystal Vitality - Anicsi & Chikasole	Really solid basic editing and I really liked the concept. There are a few major issues though. First, techncial... you're upscaling everything to fit into the modern games' resolution without converting so a lot of the older stuff is stretched out and muddy. Would've been more benificial to crop the 4:3 and conform everything to 16:9 480p. In the beginning, the text looks like you added a Shine filter over it but it's way over applied out and very static. And then at the end, your text movement and fades do a bit of a pop. Not smooth at all. Second big issue was the voice over. I'm not against it but it felt tacked on and under powered. If you had taken the scenes where those characters were speaking the lines, i think it would've been much more powerful as a FF tribute. Lastly, and probably related the the last point, the video felt too random. It was going back and forth constantly and i while I could see a bit of a narative going on, it didn't grab me and bring me in. Overall, I really liked it but maybe should've spend a little more time on the technical stuff and tweaked the idea a bit to make it pop more as a tribute video.
12	DangoWaffles - Possessive Hatred - xGeminii & Magicflier	Solid basic editing but you suffered a lot on technical and theme. First off, the audio quality is terrible. It's hard to get into a video like this when the audio sounds distant and muddled. A quick search on Youtube allowed me to hear the song better. Secondly, zooms are tacky and random effects don't make a video better. Granted, the majority of the effects work looks like it's ment to be there, the execution could've used some more work though. I respect and appreciate those who use effects but I don't give out points just because you put in the hard work. It has to be effective and done well. All that said, the cross over was fantastic. I have no idea what the sources are and would've assumed this was a single source video. That said, I don't really know what's going on... Maybe it's some kind of internal struggle being visualized but it feels more creepy horror. The theme you were supposed to follow was "a crossover video that is not drama"... this is a drama video, no doubt about it. Overall though. I think it's decent. I don't like the overused effects work (added blurs and noise and dust and lint). I think if you had toned it down a bit and focused your time on refining the camera and motion, as well as the effects that you needed (specific dof blurs, overlays, ect...) instead of adding more, it would've worked out just as well and be better for it.
13	DangoWaffles - Smoke and Mirrors - snowflakes1515	Editing felt a little loose. While the scene selection between the anime and LA sources was cool, there were parts where everything just felt random. There was also a part in the middle where the song slowed down a bit but there was a bit of action on screen. Felt very out of place and lazy. That said, I thought that it was a clever use of the LA sources but could've used some more work.
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15	Dondé esta la baguette - Animal Love - Shalyes	Effective crossover but the color overlay and blurs feel overdone. My only thought is you used them to hide that it's a cross over video. That feels lazy to me. I think the effect would've been better if it was more subtle and you spent some time to color correct the characters to fit into what ever scene they are in. Also, the last 30seconds are big blurry mess. I had to check my glasses and rub my eyes cause I didn't know if it was me or the video. The blur should be a bit more subtle. That said, overall its a simple romance video but it lacks some depth. It's a bit random and feels like it just goes back and forth all the time with no substance. I don't know who these characters are or why they want to be "more than friends" other than they seem to go the same school. Do they have any history already? A good romance story has a story to it and this just feels rushed.
16	Dondé esta la baguette - Clarté - Raitei	Editing is a bit loose but perhaps that's the nature of the video? I feel like I'm supposed to see some inner meaning in this video but I don't. I see some disjoined scene selection in the beginning followed by some kid drinking something which I assume "enlightens" him by showing random live action shots, which don't nessessarily have any corrilation... I feel like there was something more to be shown but it's just not there.
17	Dondé esta la baguette - Immortal - MimS	Simple and well done. That said, I feel like a bit of the emotion sort of went away about half way into it. It was a little too colorful in the second half while the mood was still very somber. On the subject of the text, for the most part it was fine but I really didn't like the last sentence. It didn't feel right. I was expecting a bit of an emotional punch there but it fell flat. All that said I think this was a fantastic idea, I love the short and simpistic nature of it. If the few issues I had with it were tweaked a bit it would've been perfect.
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19	IAS - Anime Idiots - PrinnyCat & Traumadriver	Good concept but lacked execution. I was expecting something a bit more faster paced. Editing is a bit sloppy and the roto work needs a lot of work. Zooms are tacky. Overall, it was very random random and the LA footage of Greenday didn't fit IMO. If you had picked up the pace a bit and stuck with the "media" theme (tv's, cell phones, etc..) as well as worked on the technical side a bit more, the video would've been better.
20	IAS - Key Brothers - ego14	The strength of this video is the basic editing. That said, video quality, audio levels, and the subtitles damge the video. Pushing video quality aside, the biggest issue is the subtitles. They are HUGE aren't uniform and spelling mistakes don't help. The dialog was very soft in some parts. While I love the musical peace, the dialog plays a major role in this video and shouldn't be overshadowed. That said, I think the video would've benifited without the dialog. Let the music and your editing carry your idea. Overall, I liked it.
21	IAS - Vividred Strikers - Kagacie	I wouldn't even really consider this a real "crossover" type video. The differences in the sources are very noticable but I don't see a whole lot of work to try and blend them together, just different scenes stiched together to try and create a story narative. In addition to that, this is more of a drama video. The theme asked for a non-drama video. Yes there is action but over 50% of it is dramatic in nature. The editing is loose and could use some work as well. Keep at it.
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23	Psundercyan - Femme Fatale - Amaterasu	Editing was loose and the story was a bit hard to follow. Not entirely sure what's going on. Most of the video feels like it's just the game footage set to music.
24	Psundercyan - Latter Days (We Needed Another Madoka Video) - PieandBeed & Keiichiface	Editing was a bit loose in the beginning but started to fall into place later on. That said, I'm lost on the concept. The scene selection and narative doesn't really follow the song very much. The song also starts rather abrupt. You cut off a perfect opportunity to present a really great lead up as well as cut off the first part of the verse.
25	Psundercyan - Pop Train - Pauratagashi22	Suprising this works a bit. Editing needs some work as well as the lipsync. Would've liked to see more of the video or perhaps just a shorter cut of the song done. Overall, I guess it's an alright parody but didn't really make me laugh of grin.
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27	TableFlip - Manic Undead Fanservice Slaughter (feat. Tits McGee) - Fall_Child42	There are a few parts where I wish the pace would've picked up a bit but for the most part, the video gets the point across. Overall, not bad but nothing special.
28	TableFlip - This One Counts Double - Rozard, Fall_Child42, Nessephanie, AquaSky, meleechampion	Not sure what to say about this video. The different sections are noticable and the LA sources feels tacked on to fullful the requirements of the theme. The concept just feels random... just a collab. Editing was solid but I think some more thought about the theme and overal concept would've been better.
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30	TM - Uh! Bromance - Janikachan	Editing was loose. The concept started out alright but got a bit lost as the video progressed. The whole video just felt lazy after the second half. Might have been better if it was kept a bit shorter and focused more on the bromance and less of everything else that was going on.
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32	Unresponsive - Find Our Way - Kimberly	There's a lot going on here and I feel like the LA source is a bit tacked on. You almost stop using it in the second half of the video. I love the idea though and I think this was rather well done but perhaps a bit forgetable.
33	Unresponsive - Phenomenon (Open Your Moe) - slimed	Had to watch the original video and this side by side and you've done a pretty good job of trying to match the scenes. I would've liked to see some more work to try and match the effects a bit better with the frame sizing. I think a true parody should parody everything, not just the scene selection. That said, very well done.
34	Unresponsive - PreSinct - Rice & Phlashbak	The first half was like a weird action/terrorist/matrix/borne identity thing going on… I was totally into it and then… Brave? Compeltely ruined the entire vibe of the whole video. On top of that all the effects work ended. On the subject of the effects. Overdone. Could've done more with less. Back to editing... you edited about 30 seconds of a video more or less played the same sequence backwards. If that was all of the video I would've been ok with it perhaps but it feels lazy to me. Overall, cool first half but it feels like you gave up after 30 seconds.
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