ahahaha ha HA HA HA AH YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY TIMES I'VE REPLAYED THIS VIDEO
It's obvious how much work has gone into this entry - it was really nice to read your notes on the video and it definitely helped fill in the story that was being told. There are a lot of things paired together here that bring this round's theme to the forefront and I REALLY REALLY LIKED THEM OKAY THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY PRETTY ENTRY WITH AN INCREDIBLY RICH STORY TO IT and I am invested.
I adore the song chosen and how you've timed the video in accordance to it - the slow buildup and how it steps into different segments with 'where are you now' and 'faded'...the piano evolving into strings and dying down again, only to pick up again later on. The contrast between the slower verses and that chorus works really well with the concept of two worlds converging - it added to the stillness in Sousuke's parts and then picked up in the sections where they were travelling, which was just. SO ATMOSPHERIC. The interplay between the lyrics and the words on-screen was handled nicely too - it could have been confusing but instead it was super easy to draw out parts of each as necessary, and the words add to one another instead? Like, 'you fade away / i want to disappear' was powerful, and so was 'wanna see you / looking for any signs of life' *o* And precisely because of that, the moment when everything steps up and the words converge at 'where are you now' has this incredible impact, just. HJKHKFKJAL
Stylistically, I loved the typography throughout as well *o* The words are always clear, but they move in this amazing way - 'no reply' in JP quotation marks, 'humanity has faded' splashing in across the back when Sousuke walks. The movement in this video is amazing, just in general - I love the pan effect with the buildings and the grass moving in opposite directions around Sousuke, and the rising/setting sun/moon behind the pictures is a great concept!
AND OKAY. THE GREYSCALE/COLOUR THING IS SO SO GREAT I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I absolutely adore how at first there are only brief moments where Sousuke's world is tinted with colour, and only in specific sections - how he's living in this world that has 'faded' - but the blood on his bandages is ever so slightly tinted, and he's still human, and then there's the sky at the building, and as he travels all these snapshots of his world begin to fill in with colour. THAT MOMENT WHERE HE WAKES AND HIS EYES OPEN IS SO GOOD HIS EXPRESSION IS AMAZING
THE PICTURES ON THE WALL ARE THE GREATEST THING HONESTLY THE TRANSITION INTO THAT MAP IN COLOUR AND MAKOTO'S SECTION - IT WAS SO POWERFUL I LOVED IT. The text says 'a world so different' and it is, so clear and bright and colourful, (and YOUR TEAM'S BACKGROUND ART IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE FAR OUT) and Makoto's journey compared to Sousuke's is so warm and vivid IT MAKES THE COMPARISONS STAND OUT SO WELL. All the people surrounding him, compared to Sousuke's isolation fdjhalf (also Makoto with his jumper tied around his waist asking people for directionsdjm falsghflkajh GOOD PICTURE VERY GOOD PICTURE)
and okay. I HAVE BEEN HOLDING OFF SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NEXT PART BECAUSE IT KILLED ME BUT THIS. THIS WAS WHERE I COMPLETELY AND IRREVOCABLY FELL IN LOVE -- The sky and its reflection, the TWO WORLDS APART text intersecting both, just how that whole picture is framed, THE WAY THE MUSIC SWELLS, AND THE SWITCH TO NIGHT FROM LOOKING DOWN TO LOOKING UP, TO THAT BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL STARRY SKY I --
and the sequence after that just closing in on the house was planned so well - I love how it zooms in on the open door, like we're approaching it as Sousuke does, and him walking through those hallways, AND THE FLASH OF LIGHT. THE OPEN DOOR. THE MEETING. COLOUR AND MONOCHROME.
That last quote - 'and in this space we found us' - hkfaljkdfhlsjkja; it's so beautiful, and then the final end card, formatted so beautifully, the transmitter and how it brings to mind not only the static of the dreams but also this infinite space and the stars and HOW THEY MET IN THAT SPACE UNDER THE SKY SHJKDLAKSD ALKALJKJD:
This entry is fantastic and every time I go back to it I fall more in love <3 All the best with the voting!
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It's obvious how much work has gone into this entry - it was really nice to read your notes on the video and it definitely helped fill in the story that was being told. There are a lot of things paired together here that bring this round's theme to the forefront and I REALLY REALLY LIKED THEM OKAY THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY PRETTY ENTRY WITH AN INCREDIBLY RICH STORY TO IT and I am invested.
I adore the song chosen and how you've timed the video in accordance to it - the slow buildup and how it steps into different segments with 'where are you now' and 'faded'...the piano evolving into strings and dying down again, only to pick up again later on. The contrast between the slower verses and that chorus works really well with the concept of two worlds converging - it added to the stillness in Sousuke's parts and then picked up in the sections where they were travelling, which was just. SO ATMOSPHERIC. The interplay between the lyrics and the words on-screen was handled nicely too - it could have been confusing but instead it was super easy to draw out parts of each as necessary, and the words add to one another instead? Like, 'you fade away / i want to disappear' was powerful, and so was 'wanna see you / looking for any signs of life' *o* And precisely because of that, the moment when everything steps up and the words converge at 'where are you now' has this incredible impact, just. HJKHKFKJAL
Stylistically, I loved the typography throughout as well *o* The words are always clear, but they move in this amazing way - 'no reply' in JP quotation marks, 'humanity has faded' splashing in across the back when Sousuke walks. The movement in this video is amazing, just in general - I love the pan effect with the buildings and the grass moving in opposite directions around Sousuke, and the rising/setting sun/moon behind the pictures is a great concept!
AND OKAY. THE GREYSCALE/COLOUR THING IS SO SO GREAT I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I absolutely adore how at first there are only brief moments where Sousuke's world is tinted with colour, and only in specific sections - how he's living in this world that has 'faded' - but the blood on his bandages is ever so slightly tinted, and he's still human, and then there's the sky at the building, and as he travels all these snapshots of his world begin to fill in with colour. THAT MOMENT WHERE HE WAKES AND HIS EYES OPEN IS SO GOOD HIS EXPRESSION IS AMAZING
THE PICTURES ON THE WALL ARE THE GREATEST THING HONESTLY THE TRANSITION INTO THAT MAP IN COLOUR AND MAKOTO'S SECTION - IT WAS SO POWERFUL I LOVED IT. The text says 'a world so different' and it is, so clear and bright and colourful, (and YOUR TEAM'S BACKGROUND ART IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE FAR OUT) and Makoto's journey compared to Sousuke's is so warm and vivid IT MAKES THE COMPARISONS STAND OUT SO WELL. All the people surrounding him, compared to Sousuke's isolation fdjhalf
(also Makoto with his jumper tied around his waist asking people for directionsdjm falsghflkajh GOOD PICTURE VERY GOOD PICTURE)
and okay. I HAVE BEEN HOLDING OFF SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NEXT PART BECAUSE IT KILLED ME BUT THIS. THIS WAS WHERE I COMPLETELY AND IRREVOCABLY FELL IN LOVE --
The sky and its reflection, the TWO WORLDS APART text intersecting both, just how that whole picture is framed, THE WAY THE MUSIC SWELLS, AND THE SWITCH TO NIGHT FROM LOOKING DOWN TO LOOKING UP, TO THAT BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL STARRY SKY I --
and the sequence after that just closing in on the house was planned so well - I love how it zooms in on the open door, like we're approaching it as Sousuke does, and him walking through those hallways, AND THE FLASH OF LIGHT. THE OPEN DOOR. THE MEETING. COLOUR AND MONOCHROME.
That last quote - 'and in this space we found us' - hkfaljkdfhlsjkja; it's so beautiful, and then the final end card, formatted so beautifully, the transmitter and how it brings to mind not only the static of the dreams but also this infinite space and the stars and HOW THEY MET IN THAT SPACE UNDER THE SKY SHJKDLAKSD ALKALJKJD:
This entry is fantastic and every time I go back to it I fall more in love <3 All the best with the voting!