Narutoforums Second AMV Competition Judge's Thread

[MechaTC]

Mods, DO NOT DELETE THIS THREAD!!

Judges, please rate all three of the videos
The one with the most points between all three judgings will win.

Judges:
1. Valur (may not judge)
2. mageofdeath
3. MechaTC

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

Example:

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

[MechaTC]

Diz - Lines

Originality: 6/10 | Bleach + action video. That is the only reason I dropped off some points. However, I still scored you high in this category because of how you integrated the song you chose into Ichigo's fights. "And I see your face and you see my face.." in particular relates to ichigo's "alter ego" very well. Haha. Very well done with the lyrics.
Visual Quality: 8/10 | As far as Bleach raws go, it looked good. Still some episodes are fuzzy but since it wasn't really your fault, I didn't take much off.
Audio: 10/10 | Audio was fine. Couldn't find a problem with it.
Action Sync: 9/10 | Syncs were AWESOME!! Great, great job on this one. You even synched parts of the video that didn't use percussion...the screaming parts. Very well done. I really enjoyed this aspect of your video.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 8/10 | Very, very well done. You didn't overuse any effects. You used them tastefully throughout your video. The shaking of the video during certain beats in the song and in action filled parts was really a nice touch. It worked very well. Same with the tiling type effect you used in the beginning. It matched the music at that point well.
Effort: 9/10 | Lots of effort was put in!! Pretty much all amv creators put in a lot of effort. But you put in more than average because of how awesome everything was fine tuned. Syncs, sound matching, scene changes...everything was awesome. It must have been a real bitch to get everything right, haha. Good job.
Re-view-ability: 10/10 | I'll say it again, this video was AWESOME! It really got my blood pumping with the scene and music choice. I've watched it at least 10 times since I downloaded it. Great Ichigo pwning Byakuya moments by the way ; P
Overall: 8/10 | You did an awesome job on this. It's only downfall that would keep it from top 10% on amv.org would be the originality. It doesn't do anything groundbreaking. But you obviously have a lot of talent in amv creation. I look forward to your future releases.

Total: 68/80 Points

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Delta Wolf - Naruto - Eden

Originality: 5/10 | A video that examines the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke. Many of these have been done and yours didn't bring anything particularly new to the table. Lyrical choice got an extra point however!
Visual Quality: 6/10 | The quality of this video was overall that of the fansubs. However, you had many subtitles in the video as well as the Divx symbol. The subtitles I can understand, but the Divx symbol is easily removed.
Audio: 10/10 | The audio was fine. I also enjoyed the song you chose.
Action Sync: 7/10 | This video wasn't an action video, I can tell. I know your intent was to make it a more emotional video. However, despite it being a slower video, I felt it was TOO slow at times. There weren't enough scene/scene perspective changes. I do believe you have the ability to improve upon this though : D
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 6/10 | Eh...there really weren't any in here. I think you used Windows Movie Maker, but you didn't even use one of their included effects. The only "partial" effect I saw was at a time in the song when the music changed it's tone. The scene associated with it changed as well (and matched very well (at about 3:24)). I'm not sure if this was intentional though, but it did boost your score.
Effort: 7/10 | You didn't half ass it. It was an enjoyable experience to watch and you can't get an enjoyably video without putting any effort into it.
Re-view-ability: 6/10 | I liked it. The video could use a lot of work in order for me to watch it again.
Overall: 6/10 | You have a lot of room for improvement, but it IS obvious you have a lot of potential. Just keep on making amv's!!!

Total: 53/80 Points

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JoeWise - Sickness

Originality: 4/10 | Naruto action video. It's been done a thousand times and yours didn't bring anything new.
Visual Quality: 5/10 | The quality was that of a fansub...I suppose I can understand if you had to use fansubs, but using fansubs without artifacts in the video would have made your quality score slightly higher. There were many spots throughout the whole video where little squares of missing color can be seen in the video.
Audio: 9/10 | The audio was fine for the most part. I did notice a blip in it though. In this day and age, finding a perfect recording of a popular song shouldn't have been a problem.
Action Sync: 8/10 | Your action video did a pretty good job with synching to the beats and melodies of the song. They were pretty much right on when you used them, but I know you could have done it a lot more. There were so many unused beats and effects in the song that would have worked.
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 7/10 | I didn't really notice many aside from the darkening or lightening of the screen when the drums or cymbal were being played. You did use an awful lot of those beats for scene changes...which I liked. You changed the scene as well as the perspective of the same scene. Very, very nice.
Effort: 8/10 | You did NOT half ass this amv. This one must have taken some time, but I noticed near the end your beat syncs were slipping. It seemed you got lazy or tired near the end. You should have kept that going. The video would have been stronger.
Re-view-ability: 7/10 | I liked it...despite the some of the song lyrics, but it was a well done AMV. I would watch this again.
Overall: 7/10 | There's a lot of room to make improvements, but you're obviously well on your way to becoming a really good amv author.

Total: 55/80 Points

[mageofdeath]

Diz - Lines

Originality: 8/10 | I don't watch too many bleach amv's because they tend to be oh so boring, so when this came across as an early entry I groaned, but to my surprise this video was greatly executed and not boring in the least like all the other bleach and action amv's...
Visual Quality: 9/10 |Excellent Quality couldn't find many artifacts and the file size was decent for the quality of the video, only real problem I had was with the masks on the cut out layovers which were a bit pixelly on the end and perhaps wouldn't have been noticeable with a bit of blur on the borders...
Audio: 9/10 | Great song, something I've never heard, but I am an audiophile and like the uncompressed wav files with more high end kick...
Action Sync: 10/10 | Awesome, I reiterate Awesome synchs, FX everything, wouldn't change a thing about them...
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 9/10 | I loved the moving box effect scene changes on the palm mutes in the song, it was awesome, great use of motion effects and just a lot of organized chaos, really well put together...
Effort: 9/10 |Best amv I've seen from you yet, this video is what anybody who makes an amv should aim for instead of routinely opening up WMM and hitting the generate video button, this makes my list of all time top 10...
Re-view-ability: 10/10 | it made my video playlist which I go through a lot...
Overall: 9/10 | I think I've said it enough for you to know how much I liked this video, its great, classic concept(action + rock), and instead of trying to be artsy or hit and miss (with new concepts) it just gives you more of what is severely lacking today in the amv community, fun...

Total: 73/80 Points <--- highest ever I believe...

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Delta Wolf - Naruto - Eden

Originality: 5/10 | These soft epic style videos are done time and time again...
Visual Quality: 5/10 | Quality is one thing I'm ultra picky on, I like my videos to look good, and I like my videos undistracting so when I watch a video and I see logos and subtitles it distracts me from the video itself, and that really is the last thing you want happening to your video, its like am I watching a foreign film or an amv...
Audio: 9/10 | audio was pretty clear couldn't hear much wrong with it, good song choice too, just a tad bit too epic for some of your opening scenes...
Action Sync: 5/10 | well not much action in this one and when there was (at the end) it wasn't really synched, but I'm sure synchs weren't what you were aiming for right?
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 1/10 | well if I could I would leave this portion blank, I hate to give it such a low score but I have to, didn't see a single effect, not even a fadein/out, but I gave you a 1 instead of a 0 because of those nice ending credits...
Effort: 7/10 | well if you put time and work into it, I have to say you really overthought your video and focused on the wrong areas...
Re-view-ability: 3/10 | it felt like a visit to my doctors waiting room because the whole time you want it to be over you just keep changing from waiting room to waiting room, and at the end of the day when its all said and done nothing was wrong with you to begin with so you've just wasted 2 hours of your life that will never come back, except this video took about 5 minutes...
Overall: 4/10 | you have kind of an artsy style except I don't really care much for those types of videos, if you want my true advice, use raws if you're going to continue with wmm, and also make harder cuts and synchs in your videos, and try to shorten your clip length because videos like this are common place all over the net...


Total: 39/80

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JoeWise - Sickness
Originality: 7/10 | action naruto videos have been done, but thats not a bad thing...
Visual Quality: 6/10 | my pickiest point, I thought the video was ok, but would have been worlds better if you had no pixies, subs, logos...
Audio: 8/10 | disturbed's the sickness was greatly chosen, but a bit too overcompressed for my tastes...
Action Sync: 7/10 | great synchs in the begining, especially with the drums and the singing, but I felt it died out so fast, felt like you just gave up the synchs half way through...
Lip Sync/Effects/Special Effects: 5/10 | I think I saw some black flashes on some snare rolls and some of hard synchs weren't too bad, and I noticed a couple of well placed fades, still I can't give points for what isn't there, in this case effects...
Effort: 7/10 | you obcviously put some time into this, I just don't think you had the right editing tool...
Re-view-ability: 5/10 | I probably wont watch it again, but not because its not good, because its decent, its just that there are so much better amv's in my rotation right now...
Overall: 6/10 | I wouldn't mind seeing what you can do with a better editor like premiere...

Total: 51/80 Points

[MechaTC]

Valur isn't judging apparently...so the vote will be between mage's and my own judingings.

Here are the totals.

Diz - Lines | 141/160 ~ WiNNeR!!!

JoeWise - Sickness | 106/180 ~ 2nd

Delta Wolf - Naruto Eden | 92/180 ~ Last