I appreciate any and all criticism.
Please let it be known this was not to display any type of good or bad gameplay. I compiled clips hoping to make it work with the music.
KidSpectre2 votesI don't like it, to be honest. :/
Thyme Consumer1 votesDo you mind me asking what you didn't like?
I'm going to assume it was the song selection. To answer that, I assumed the "risk" with using a song that wasn't any form of electronic or rap before working on the compilation, and decided "Screw it, it's my first video for this new series so I'll go with a song I personally love.". I plan on making more videos, but will go with much more tame songs, lyrically and musically. I will probably cave in and go with some DnB song off of lapfox trax.
Thank you for the feedback.
KidSpectre2 votes[{quoted}](name=Sir Richard Butt,realm=NA,application-id=2XjzURgc,discussion-id=oZiiElUY,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2015-09-23T02:33:45.667+0000)
Do you mind me asking what you didn't like?
I'm going to assume it was the song selection. To answer that, I assumed the "risk" with using a song that wasn't any form of electronic or rap before working on the compilation, and decided "Screw it, it's my first video for this new series so I'll go with a song I personally love.". I plan on making more videos, but will go with much more tame songs, lyrically and musically. I will probably cave in and go with some DnB song off of lapfox trax.
Thank you for the feedback.
Okay, so, it's not so much that your song WASN'T rap/electronica/whatever , it just doesn't really make for a good video (the fact that I actually HATE the genre you picked is purely subjective).
It's a really long video with no coherent theme. Like, it literally looked like you took random gameplay footage, cut it together in haphazard ways vaguely similar to better executed videos, and then threw the song over it just because. And the poorly done rapid-cuts made in the beginning actually gave me a headache the first time I watched it. In a LOT of places, you were pulled way far out for seemingly no reason. And the slow-mo was over used a bit too much.
Take the clip starting at 3:28. There is a long stretch in there where nothing interesting happens. Draven killing Morde might have been an interesting shot, but we could barely see it from the angle you chose. When Karma Flashed in at 4:00 and killed Soraka with the AA, that was a decent shot, some minor adjustment coulda made it better. If you had made that the focal point of the clip, it would've been okay.
Overall, besides the song not really matching the video (except in certain few spots. The lyrics matching up with the Vlad dying was an okay idea), many clips were too long or unclear or just sloppily edited. Not the worst for a first attempt, but it definitely needs work.
Verdict is a 3.5/10. It's clear you have some ideas, but you haven't displayed the skill to execute on them yet. Work on smaller pieces with a more coherent goal in mind, and I'm confident you'll improve.
Thyme Consumer2 votesI completely agree with you. This was really a test for myself to see if I would actually finish a video, and I accomplished that. As for the overall video, it definitely falls flat.
In terms of the theme, I again agree that there wasn't one. It was solely random clips added into the song. As for the beginning, I was very happy with how that turned out and thought it was pretty good, but I see where you are coming from about that as well. The parts with the film grain and camera shake, I was happy with how that turned out. The one shot/clip I was most pleased with was the time lapse of the match that faded out with the fade in of the clip with champions spawning. Lastly, for the length of video, once again I understand that it was far too long.
As for other shots (like the entire first verse), I was fairly displeased with myself about them. Mainly the speed looked ridiculous and didn't have any direction. I did that part after doing about 5 hours straight of finishing the intro and was quite frustrated with how long I was taking to compile clips and move them to my story board.
As for future videos, I already have some in mind that focus on actual parts of gameplay or the game in general. Those being a video solely about ADC plays, a dedication to supports, and then a Leona/Pantheon lore type deal.
I appreciate you responding to me in a concise fashion and I will hold myself to higher standards when making new content.
Cheers.