Narutoforums 8th AMV Competition Judges Thread

[MechaTC]

Mods, DO NOT DELETE THIS THREAD!!

Judges, please rate and comment on all videos.
The one with the most points between all four judgings will win.

Judges:
1. Para
2. Sasuke1_2
3. ♥Yachiru-chama♣ -dropped out
4. Starkin - can't reach him
5. cheenab23 - dropped out
6. Uchiha Sasuke

Judges, cast your votes. Leave comments on all of the videos and leave a rating (out of 10 for each category like on amv.org, then add them for the total score). The video with the highest accumulated scores will win.

Examples:

Video A

Originality: 6/10 + reason/comment
Visual Quality: 8/10 + reason/comment
Audio: 10/10 + reason/comment
Action Sync: 8/10 + reason/comment
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects (combined category for our purposes): 7/10 + reason/comment
Effort: 9/10 + reason/comment
Re-view-ability: 7/10 + reason/comment
Overall: 8/10 + reason/comment

Total: 63/80 Points

[Para]

Demonic Shaman - "Let It Go"

Originality: 8/10 - Nice choice of anime and song; not the most original AMV I've seen in style, but it's not one of those done to death combinations of certain animes and songs I see all over YouTube. Nice.
Visual Quality: 10/10 - Beautiful. Your choice of clips and the quality of the video was no less than perfect.
Audio: 10/10 - While the song was not particularly to my personal tastes, it fit perfectly with the clips used and immersed me into the world of the video.
Action Sync: 10/10 - Your video syncs with your audio so well it's almost scary. It's this that made me rewatch it.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 7/10 - Aside of fades there wasn't much in the way of effects here, but the effects you DID use were done so well it deserves a high score.
Effort: 10/10 - I can tell you spend a lot of time choosing which clips to use, tweaking timing of the video and audio to perfection.
Re-view-ability: 10/10 - I'm definitely going to be watching this again.
Overall: 9/10 - Beautiful video, matching audio and nice sync of clips makes for a great AMV. I don't think I blinked while I was watching this video. Superb work.

Total: 74/80

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Katon Sage - "Ichigo's Journey to Bankai"

Originality: 6/10 - Bleach, action video, Linkin Park. That's not to say it wasn't a good AMV, just not an original one.
Visual Quality: 6/10 - You mix dub clips with sub ones, and there always seems to be either subtitles or [adult swim] at the bottom of the screen. It's kind of distracting. Not to mention the clips themselves are generally not of the best quality.
Audio: 8/10 - Nothing wrong with the quality of the sound, and you used audio from the anime as well as just the music, which is interesting, but I'm afraid you lose some marks here due to the fact that the song itself is so overused that it actually put me off watching rather than drawing me in.
Action Sync: 8/10 - The rhythm of the video works. You sync the beats in with your clips very well, and I see no problems there.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 9/10 - You use a lot of effects to change the appearance of the video clips, and while sometimes it's to the detriment of the video quality, it can't be said that you didn't use effects.
Effort: 10/10 - Your use of mixing the audio of both anime and song, and the fact that you use so many different episodes (even mixing dub with sub) shows that you put the effort in.
Re-view-ability: 5/10 - I probably wouldn't watch this again. It's the song; it makes me think "Haven't I already seen this somewhere before?".
Overall: 6/10 - You have a lot of potential, but the classic combination of Bleach and Linkin park lost you a lot of marks here. It's a shame because you could make a lot better AMVs with your talent for syncing clips. Experiment with different songs/animes in the future, get some higher quality video and I guarantee you'll do a lot better in the future.

Total: 58/80

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latina-chan - "Remember the Name"

Originality: 6/10 - Naruto action video, a song isn't THAT overused, but I've seen it on enough AMVs not to award this the most original award.
Visual Quality: 8/10 - Pretty good, but it varies from clip to clip and I see the occasional subtitle here and there.
Audio: 8/10 - Seems to be one of the newer popular songs to use on an AMV. Not bad quality, but it had the same effect on me as the previous video. It didn't draw me in like it should.
Action Sync: 9/10 - Good sync. You have talent with your timing of clips and you put it to good use.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 10/10 - You used a lot of effects, and used them well.
Effort: 10/10 - I can see you put a lot of effort into this video, just by looking at the overlapping clips and amount of cuts/effects.
Re-view-ability: 6/10 - I'd watch it again for the video, but the audio would probably put me off.
Overall: 7/10 - As with the previous AMV, you have a LOT of potential with your use of syncing and effects, but you need to pick a song/anime that not everyone else uses.

Total: 68/80

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Kamina - "Disturbia"

Originality: 7/10 - The combination HAS been done before, but it's not overused. Yet.
Visual Quality: 9/10 - Pretty good quality video and there's no subtitles there to distract me. Good stuff.
Audio: 9/10 - Song quality is fine and it goes well with the video.
Action Sync: 8/10 - There are moments that sync really well but it's mostly a series of clips telling a story, rather than an attempt to sync it with the music. Work more on making the song flow with the video, using the music as the heartbeat.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 7/10 - You use effects subtly, and it works. A nice AMV.
Effort: 9/10 - You obviously put effort into this, but I think you could try harder. Like the others, you have potential to make fantastic videos, but you should concentrate your efforts into your timing.
Re-view-ability: 7/10 - It's a good AMV, but there's nothing that makes me think "OMG, I HAVE to watch this again!". Plus the ending is rather anti-climactic due to the cut to the credits.
Overall: 8/10 - While others fall short on their choice of music, yours lost marks because of the video's sync WITH the music. You do have the capacity to make fantastic stuff, but I get the feeling you didn't try so hard with this.

Total: 64/80

[Sasuke1_2]

Demonic Shaman – “Let It Go”

Originality: 8.5/10 – Good choice of theme. Can’t say it hasn’t been done constantly, but at least it wasn’t overdone like others I’ve seen. With that said, I’m glad you did something different to make yours stand out.

Visual Quality: 10/10 – Beautiful. Crystal clear pictures which looked like DVD quality.

Audio: 10/10 – Excellent crystal clear quality. I liked the song too, was nice.

Action Sync: 10/10 – You my friend, are amazing. The way you used the music and pictures to your advantage was amazing. It flowed so nicely...it was like I was watching a trailer for a movie or something. I’m not being generous about this, I’m just telling you how it is...10/10. There really is no other way to describe it.

Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 9/10 – You were amazing. You had some great transitions. If I had to be very picky, I wanted just a little more effects that could make it really stand out.

Effort: 10/10 – Above comments...I think that’s enough said don’t you? Your effort is shown and it would be rude of me to not give you 10.

Re-view Ability: 10/10 – Like I said before, it was like watching a trailer to a movie. It would be a shame not to watch this again and not to use this for any examples of a great AMV.

Overall: 9.6/10 – Demonic Shaman, I am very pleased with your work and look forward to anymore from you. Be proud of your work and keep making those AMVs!

Total: 77.1/80 Points = 96%

[Sasuke1_2]

Katon Sage – “Ichigo’s Journey to Bankai”

Orginality: 5/10 – I’m not going to be as merciful as the other judges may be. It’s just...it’s Linkin Park, it’s Bleach, Naruto, etc. There wasn’t enough to go around and say “Screw you Linkin Park videos, this video is so unique that it will make Linkin Park look original again!” Get what I mean? It was way to basic for me to ignore the fact its been overused.

Visual Quality: 7/10 – Whether it was dub or sub quality, subtitles or adult swim logo, the clips were just not best quality. However it was far from crap so I still awarded you a 7 for this.

Audio: 10/10 – Crystal clear quality. Sounded like all my other Linkin Park songs. :P

Action Sync: 6/10 – Wasn’t enough for me. I actually would have gave you a 7 but reason I didn’t was because of the audio from the actual scene left in during the video. I’m not talking about the beginning, that was fine. It actually was a nice approach. I’m talking about in the middle and a little bit after the beginning. It gets a little bit distracting and generally isn’t a good idea to do. Aside from the audio issue, the reason I couldn’t give it more is because it just didn’t flow to well. I could tell what you wanted to portray, but being able to tell and actually doing it are two different things. Some clips seemed out of place or just thrown in.

Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 7.5/10 – Good use of effects however I still feel room for improvement or a better use of effects. Regardless you did do good on this part.

Effort: 8/10 – You put a good effort however the fact that you used a Linkin Park song, and probably knew it’s been done to death, well you can’t expect me to say you put a lot of effort in making it original can you? With that said though, you did well.

Re-view Ability: 6/10 – Well it wasn’t bad. I can see myself watching it again, except when I watch it again, it’ll probably be in like months later or even a year. What I’m trying to say is, there isn’t enough for me to want to watch it, but there’s enough for me to be able to go back and watch it.

Overall: 7.1/10 – Your videos actually remind me of myself when I first started making videos. So when I watch your video, I think about myself. The things you did, the parts you lost marks in, your song choice, it’s all stuff I would mess up in. I had the potential to make better videos so guess what? So do you. You can make even better videos than this if you give it your all. You have some great ideas from what it seems and I think you can use the criticism to your advantage. I encourage you to enter the next tournament and look forward as to what you can throw at us next time.

Total: 56.6/80 Points = 71%

[Sasuke1_2]

latina-chan – “Remember the Name”

Originality: 7.5/10 – The song is overused a bit but at least it isn’t Linkin Park. But you did what I wanted. You showed all those videos that this isn’t any normal video. You showed that it is YOUR video. It is unique and completely amazing. Just wait you’ll see.

Visual Quality: 8/10 – It was dub tv quality mixed with sub. Also the cartoon network symbol and random subtitles in the middle didn’t help. Other than that though I see you made an effort to get rid of the subtitles in the sub quality. Also some of the sub quality actually looked very good considering it wasn’t DVD quality so I awarded an 8 here.

Audio: 10/10 – Crystal clear audio. Great tune also. I enjoy it in an AMV when used effectively.

Action Sync: 10/10 – Simply amazing. It was great. Everything matched up and moved in sync with the words of the song, and the beat of the song. You pulled this off nicely and with that said, it would be disrespectful not to give you 10.

Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 10/10 – Phenomenal. I was really impressed how you used your effects here. You really knew what you were doing and you were able to make the video even more awesome from what it is. Like holy crap...10/10.

Effort: 10/10 – Need I say more? Let me ask this: What didn’t you put effort in?

Re-view Ability: 10/10 – This is a prime example as to how someone can use effects on a video and mix it with a great action sync. Yeah I’m watching this again. Yeah I’m going to save it on here for a while. Yeah...I’m serious.

Overall: 9.4/10 – Your video was amazing. The way you used the song, the way you used the syncs, effects...everything. You pulled off everything nicely. I was impressed and hope you enter again. I enjoyed judging your video and hope to judge another one of yours soon. Excellent job!

Total: 74.9/80 Points = 94% (and 100% reason to Remember the Name! :imslow)

[Sasuke1_2]

Kamina – “Disturbia”

Originality: 9/10 – I’m actually quite happy with this. I’d like to see more AMVs like this. Not often I see Rihanna (correct me if I’m wrong) mixed with an anime like Bleach.

Visual Quality: 9/10 – Nice! You’re a cut above fansub quality, but not exactly DVD quality. Though I must say regardless the quality was very good! I’m also happy you have no subtitles in your video. It makes a difference, trust me.

Audio: 10/10 – Crystal clear.

Action Sync: 8/10 – This was a little quirky. The beginning was done really good and if it kept up I might have gave this a 10, but near the middle and end, it started losing its sync. If only you kept it going...

Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 8/10 – Great transitions but I felt there was more rooms for effects, There’s so much more you can do with this song as it has a good beat. Great for some crazy effects to make the video really stand out.

Effort: 10/10 – Nicely done. I can tell effort was put in this, especially with the quality and the whole theme of the AMV.

Re-view Ability: 8/10 – It’s great! I enjoy watching things like this once in a while. It’s worth watching more than once.

Overall: 8.9/10 – I really must say, I enjoyed this. I like the whole disturbed idea and Hollow Ichigo inside Ichigo mixture. It really is Disturbia ahaha. No really, great job. With a little more work, this AMV can be even better. With that said, I hope you enter the next competition. Great job!

Total: 70.9/80 Points = 89%

[Chuck Norris]

Anyway here it is my review.
Before I reveal it....
I must say that I never spoke with every contestant I judged videos before So I'm not goign to choose this or that guy because he is my friend, even if he was It wouldn't make a difference, so don't go mad on me.


Demonic Shaman

I Just loved it all from the start till the end. I didn't have a clue for the Movie 5CS so basically I had to watch it myself before judging your video, anyway about the movie, I think this is one of those you can put on TV while having some girl next to you that you know by the end, she will be down in tears grabbing you, while you can just pretend your emotional and you know the rest.

For your video I judged it by originality since it was something we were seeking, and the Sound. I think if there was a song to fit the Amv and the Movie it would be that one. Such an awesome song should never been made for such lame video for disney but it could have been made for the 5CS instead that it would have been much better.

Quality was amazing, loved the scene skips, and the way you combined the song with the Story.
It is a brilliant piece of work and therefore here goes my vote.

Originality: 8/10
Unlike other video this one isn't a Character worshipping and is a love story instead, therefore it is more appealing to my eyes, then some Amvs I watched.
Visual Quality: 9/10, no Pixelated images, no subtitles, really good looking.
Audio: 10/10 I could hear the song perfectly.
Action Sync: 8/10 Like I said brilliant use of scenes fitting with the song.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects (combined category for our purposes): 8 / 10, although there weren't that many effects they were put together really well and therefore seemed really nice.
Effort: 8/10 Nice search for such fitting song, nice work with the video overall.
Re-view-ability: 9/ 10 I watched it like 20 times so yes I guess it is good for review.
Overall: 9/ 10 For many reasons I pointed out before I think this video is perfect.

Total: 69/80 Points



Working on the others at the moment.

[Chuck Norris]

latina-chan - "Remember the Name"

Originality: 7/10, I liked the way you decided you would be doing the video, and it turned out to be more then just a tribute video for a character but for three instead.

Visual quality: 8/10, Really nice clear image, but in a video so "well" edited, I kept catching cartoo network ad parts, which ruinned it. I would always do a raw version for it or maybe use spanish or whatever just to avoid doing advertisement to any tv station with my video.

Audio: 10/10, Good sound and clear, that is all I ask.

Action Sync: 8/10, I liked the way you set the video in three parts for each character and the way you matched the song with the characters. Meccha says that we don't need knowledge to judge this videos, well If I didn't know already the characters you worshiped, that would have been different after I watched your video.

Effects: 9/10, you used many effects, however by doing so I would consider you well capable to crop out some parts where it shows Cartoon Network like i explainned before. Apart from that it is just awesome.

Effort: 8/10 Nice effort on effects, bad effort on video selection.

Re-view ability: 7/10 The song is ok, the video is also ok, and like many others, I'm not fan of tribute videos, unless they are well made, and you did it, so I wouldn't mind watching it again.

Overall: 7.5/10 Reasons explained previously.

Total: 64.5 /80

[Chuck Norris]

Katon Sage - "Ichigo's Journey to Bankai"

I clicked it, then I heard Linkin Park. I was like "Oh No please, not another video with Linkin Park song" Then I realized it was in fact a tribute for a Bleach character, so I had to go check some background of that same character. At the end you suprised me. Against all odds , your video proved to be more then just a junkie.

Originality: 4 / 10, Meccha made it clear we wanted something unic, something that can leave us astonished and force us to click on replay button instead of stop. Tribute video, Linking Park, that is receip for disaster.

Visual Quality: 6/ 10 Pixelated image, blurry in some parts, other the subs show up at bottom, others the effects you put are too bright and just blind us for a couple seconds.

Audio: 9/10 I didn't had that problem in hearing the audio, but I didn't hear it that clear like in other AMVs.

Action Sync: 7/10, You proved that you know at least how to sync scenes in a tribute video. Sometimes the scene vanished and the sound was still going on but it wasn't that much obvious. Also liked the manga coordination and good use of the episodes.

Effects: 7/10, I liked most of the effects you used expect the ones suddenly the scenes looked like a ranbow, the hair the eyes the clothes, everything was going crazy, I even thought It was my computer visual settings messing up for once before I realized it was actually your video.

Effort: 7/10, Like Latina, you could have serach for raw versions, it is really not that hard on youtube. Despite that you took some time on effects to cheer up the rest of the AMV

Re-View ability: 4/10, Sorry to say this, but I think we are all tired to see tributes with linkin park throwing up and screaming out loud.

Overall: 6/10

Like Para said you still need to improve and I am sure next AMV you do will be much better.

Total: 50/80

[Chuck Norris]

Kamina – “Disturbia”

Originality: 8/10 - Good choice of medias considering the AMV you were about to made (Music for example).

Quality: 9/10 - amazing quality, clear image. Just like a Amv should be.

Audio: 10 /10 - No need to explain this.

Action Sync.: 7/10 - Like Sasuke said I think you had a great start but ruinned in the middle.

Effects: 8/10 - I know how hard you've worked on this and I really liked the effects you added to the Amv.

Efforts: 8/10 - You've shown me another face of Bleach with this video :D

Re-View ability 8/10 - I don't mind watching this as many times as you want, but after a while I'll just turn sound off, just because the music used start to annoy me thanks to Rhianna shrill voice.

Overall: 9/10 - Considering every aspects of the Amv, effects and effort it really feel this Amv deserves a 9


Total: 67/80