Only A Bad Dream [Raven & Esnemyl]

Raven_Faiths - Dreamweaver · September 2010

-=Only A Bad Dream=-

2nd game music video I made. It's very short but editing and rendering took 10 times the length of video itself because of many effects I used. eg. motion blurs, altering the sunflowers from yellow to white, manual camera movements and so on...

Well I was listening to this song and thought I'd make a video with it. I started shooting as the mood hit me. Es did a good job with her camera angles and views. For the better, she wasn't laggy while filming which helped in editing and the quality of the video. So good job, love.

Hmm and intro of the song is a little bit remixed by me 'cause I wanted the guitar part to be longer. Original version has very short guitar intro, so yeah.

And still can't get rid of circles under our characters and mobs. We tried but still it's hard to avoid hovering over the mobs when we moved the camera.

For those who didn't get the story, it's pretty straight forward.
Es appeared somewhere she wasn't familiar with. Then she faced mobs on the field as she wandered around. She managed to kill one but she couldn't defeat the rest, so she ran. There appeared her saviour, Raven ^^ He challenged the mobs, drew 'em to him and killed. While Raven managed to kill the mobs, one slipped. That one was going to hurt Es but Raven shoot his drake ray pass Es and hit the mob. With that Es woke up. Raven whose chest Es was leaning against, comforted her saying it was only a bad dream~

Esnemyl - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Really hope you like this two minutes of awesomeness

This was really fun for us to shoot- I've learnt how to reduce lag by shooting at a lower FPS. While we were shooting for "Saviour Rose", I was using 60fps, now I reduced it to 30, the lag almost was gone, and it looks an awful lot smoother then before.
Of course I did have my problems, rubber banding stopped me a couple of times >< My computer is weak compared to Raven's

And we did have to have our genies on standby here incase anything went wrong (note, I was doing this uncharmed, so Second Wind helped me big time, Raven was using Alpha Male to steal the aggro from the mobs I pulled during my sprint), also I know that the circles are below the mobs in some scenes, but please ignore ems.

We aint doing this for professionalism, just for the fun, wuv and memories, so enjoy the video ^^

Es~

Grippieluver - Lost City · September 2010

sorry this is soo offtopic, but my goodness yalls sigs make me wanna cry b:cry

KuiXing - Harshlands · September 2010

Aww that was a cute vid b:cute i liekd the effects and what-not. looking forward to the next pw music video you do.

SerenityMare - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Good job!

This is really sweet.

And Esne bish, gimme yo pants!

Raven_Faiths - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Grippieluver - Lost City wrote: »

sorry this is soo offtopic, but my goodness yalls sigs make me wanna cry b:cry

I'm glad you liked the siggys I made for both me and Es ^^
Might as well make one for you some day~

KuiXing - Harshlands wrote: »

Aww that was a cute vid b:cute i liekd the effects and what-not. looking forward to the next pw music video you do.

Thank you so much ^^

SerenityMare - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Good job! This is really sweet.

And Esne bish, gimme yo pants!

Thank you but her pants belong to meh !! o.O

SerenityMare - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Raven_Faiths - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Thank you but her pants belong to meh !! o.O

b:sad

Fine.

Myralis - Sanctuary · September 2010

Hm...
K, so Ill just address you both this time lol

First off, way better than your first video. The music goes well with the action and it seems very synchrone there.
I got some negative points again though (already feels bad for being the eternal criticb:surrender)
The font in the beginning is rather hard to read if you let it scroll in like this.
The cuts between the scenes seems to long, you shouldnt be able to see the black image between.
What also irks me a bit... esne is looking from the right to the mobs. Next scene shes left of screen. How did she get there? (Nasty thing of remembering where stuff was so it wont give you errors that are confusing lateron)
And you played with the contrast a lot.. while I see what you wanted to do there, its still a bit too much. Looks kinda overused, and theres parts totally without it, what makes it look even more weird. Dont get me wrong, Im not saying use it all through the video, rather the opposite. Id leave it in for the sunflowers, and in the end, but for the rest Id take it out.
Maybe change locations if you want a darker and more hopeless athmosphere.

As for the part where raven comes to save her... Would have been a bit clearer if you had a view zooming in from behind, going over his shoulder and going closer to esne down there. Im kinda missing esne down there to make the connection hes going to save her. Same goes for the fight, she should have been in, maybe fighting next to him. I know, youd need a third person to film then, but it would make the story easier for the viewer.

And grr, you didnt credit the artist of the song anywhere. Bad for people who wanna know it and well... hate to say it, but its a bit respectless for the artist b:surrender

But what really impressed me is your beginning. First the calm guitar tones, then you go into showing esne and that sprint/zoom over the landscape. Really good and creates a nice athmosphere

Raven_Faiths - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Alright then... let's see...

Fonts: It was only our names and pwi server. There wasn't a need for a serious reading. But okay it was hard for you to read.

Cuts: There were parts where I actually meant to put in the black images; fade in and fade out.

Es being on left: Yeah she was looking from the right but I changed camera angle. And she wandered around. So she got to the left. It's written in the story description that Es wandered around.

Contrasts and brightness: I played with them a lot. And I applied that to all of video parts. They all have it just the different amounts. Maybe you don't like it and think that's too much but that's how I like it.

Es not being in fights: This video is made by 2 people only and we don't wanna drag anyone in. This video's title is "Only a bad dream". People and things disappear in dreams. Es didn't have to be there all the time. If you noticed, Es, me and mob were there altogether at the end of the video. And Es didn't always have to be fighting. Read the story description, she fought and killed one. But she couldn't defeat them all and she ran. She didn't need to fight anymore according to my plot.

Connection of me saving Es: There's no way I would let Es die for this video. We messed with same level mobs and they can still be harmful especially when Es is uncharmed and we didn't use cleric buffs. Of course it would have been nice to have shot the part where Es was running down there with 5 mobs chasing her and me being on top of hill doing my provoke emote and later jump down and kill some mobs. I really don't want the story to be 100% crystal clear. I don't see the point of stories being too obvious. Well I tried in my way to put the connection there but it doesn't appear before you, you gotta make it yourself.

Credits: Youtube has it that if you have copyright problem, your video can be taken out or audio be altered nomatter how much credit you give. So I didn't bother giving credit or anything since I don't own the track.

One more thing, it's in the description again; we do this for memory, fun, (and love as Es said), we don't do this for pro things, so just ignore the flaws and enjoy the video. I'm even surprised that you managed get this much of negative points for a video that isn't even 2 mins long.

Aside from all the negative things you mentioned, thank you for a few positive points in your post.

Dorset - Heavens Tear · September 2010

well i loved the video. its a testiment to how much you two love eachother that you can spend enough time doing something stressful and frustrating like filming an in game movie and still have an amazing time whilst you doing it together if you got me and my in game hubby ( ans bestest friend) Anozira doing that we would rip eachothers heads off xd i have a rediculously firey temper for a sweet english girl and he isnt much better

i liked the colours and contrast in yoru video.
i only have ONE critisism and i hope you forgive me

where you edited the soundtrack to make the guitar part longer there is ONE note that is out of Tune) probably because of the looping you caught it just a tiny bit too late) many peopel might not have noticed but out of tune notes in music actually grate on my ears and make my teeth grind

also @ Myralis...Dude.. bit harsh?

thanks for the cool vid Esne and Raven keep it up

Esnemyl - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Dorset - Heavens Tear wrote: »

well i loved the video. its a testiment to how much you two love eachother that you can spend enough time doing something stressful and frustrating like filming an in game movie and still have an amazing time whilst you doing it together

Stressful? Frustrating?
Nah, With us it's never any of that, we love to experiment, and it's really fun when we are filming ^^
I love to test out new camera angles and stuff when filming with my guy, if it goes wrong (we actually got wiped from pulling too many mobs in a shoot in the last video we did, but took it to our advantage by using the black/white effects from death) we usually laught it off and try again

Aslong as your having fun filming and making your video, you know its gonna come out the way you like it, which it did for us.

Dorset - Heavens Tear wrote: »

i liked the colours and contrast in your video.
i only have ONE critisism and i hope you forgive me

where you edited the soundtrack to make the guitar part longer there is ONE note that is out of Tune) probably because of the looping you caught it just a tiny bit too late) many peopel might not have noticed but out of tune notes in music actually grate on my ears and make my teeth grind

Yes, I caught the offnote too, it isnt that much of a problem. Lengthening intros can sometimes go a tad wrong, but it isnt really that noticeable to most.
Dont worry about it, I forgive you ^^ It isnt like everyones yelling about the music being wrong and all that if you get what I mean.

Thanks for enjoying our vid, and yup, we're gonna keep on trying our best.
British chicks ftw XD

Dorset - Heavens Tear · September 2010

Esnemyl - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Stressful? Frustrating?
Nah, With us it's never any of that, we love to experiment, and it's really fun when we are filming ^^
I love to test out new camera angles and stuff when filming with my guy, if it goes wrong (we actually got wiped from pulling too many mobs in a shoot in the last video we did, but took it to our advantage by using the black/white effects from death) we usually laught it off and try again

i suppose its all to do with what you enjoy. i would go mental trying to get everything right like "throws TT bow to ground and storms off" or some such thing. but then i spend hours creating sigs and artwork and Anozira gets frustrated even looking at Gimp so i guess its all what we all liek doing individually. you guys should be proud you guys are gettign so good at it xd
British peoples are awsome...just sayin

Raven_Faiths - Dreamweaver · September 2010

Thanks for your post Dorset and sure I forgive you lol. I actually didn't notice the note in the intro- I'll admit. Thanks for pointing that out~

And I'm glad you liked the video.

Only A Bad Dream [Raven & Esnemyl]

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