Shox'n'Ybe JKJA Fragmovie

[Yberion]

Well i don't really know if it's the most appropriate place to post this but here we go.
For the little story, my french mate shox wanted a fragmovie before he leave france due to a personal cause and i wanted one myself, so this fragmovie groups my frags (first part) and shox's frags (second part).
 
With the help of @@ent i used jamme for the first time, sometime camera are a bit fast but the global result is fine i think.

 

It's a saber only fragmovie.
 

 

Musics:

- Pendulum - 9000 Miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ShFJZuL4c

- Epic Blockbuster Trailer Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoyiRis_-ds

- Celldweller - The Wings of Icarus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfQgTz_znn0


- Hans Zimmer - Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAGGZNfUkU

- Netsky - Eyes Closed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nutzDtjnMNg&feature=kp

- Netsky - Secret Agent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y6Ou5ks6q8


- Netsky - Pirate Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xAw_ZR5YkI

- Love & Loss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPBN7O3JY

- Dan Bull - Civilization Instrumental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2um86qbWyM


Software:

-jamme (mod) http://jkhub.org/forum/75-jamme/
-fraps
-Windows Movie Maker (2013)
-Adobe Photoshop

 

[Omicron]

Sweet frags, and good music too

[CaptainCrazy]

0:19 ahhhh the legendary "crouch of knowing." You needn't say a word, just crouch and they'll get the idea that it's go time xD

 

Good movie

[Ping]

Oh this is definitely the right place to post it, make no mistake about it, and I'm glad you did. Here's some feedback:

 

The frags were for the most part really excellent; some were better than others though, and given the exorbitant length of the video, you could have just kept it to the very best frags you had available. But I really like that you tried something new: JAMME has great potential and it takes some effort to get oneself beyond the things commonly used for videos like these, so I applaud your choice and think it was definitely a great thing that you used the mod. The level shots during the slow parts of the music were pretty good as well and I also didn't mind the staged conversations at the end between you two - it was fresh and original, although maybe not quite what I'd expect in a fragmovie, which is not a bad thing at all.

 

The real issue I had was that you basically recorded frags, put them together into one video and played a soundtrack ontop of that. Given the good quality of your material, this is rather unfortunate, since it misses the thing that can make fragvideos so amazing: It's the way the visuals work together with the audio to create something of artistic value. You've done this by showing level shots when the music slowed down, but this is not enough. You need to -at the very least- synchronize the frags with the music. This is the most basic thing you just have to work with in order to make a good video. This is also where choice of music comes in and the way you adjust your angles and speed to what's happening in the music etc. It opens up a whole variety of creative possibilities that you then can exploit.

 

I didn't think the camera was too fast at times, although there were some scenes that made me a bit dizzy, I rather felt that the problem was the way you swayed to the left and right. In fact, almost all of the camera movement was just that: sway one side, then a bit to the other and then back, sometimes repeatedly so. It became a very predictable pattern, especially so given the length of the video. There were some well executed moments where you caught a good frag in a nice and novel way, but those were the exception to an otherwise thoroughly established pattern.

 

The outro was cute and I liked the in-jokes; the intro was a bit too simple for me, and yeah, there were no real transitions. But really, I'd focus a lot more on synchronizing the video with the audio, since that is the main problem I had. Good work though!