going "so hey wow this is a vid, huh? never seen one before but it seems really interesting..." and *connected* and my heart jumped up into my throat, and I just watched and felt and breathed and reacted to the rest of the vid on a much deeper more involved level -- which of course is harder to put into words. *^_^*
ohhh! ::wibbles and glomps::
although if you don't mind a bit of concrit from a vid-watching newbie, it seemed in a couple of the nighttime scenes in the woods from the Chin Iisou arc, Gojyo's hair was a bit too bright and saturated to look like part of the scene, when everything else was so dull and either dark or washed out, and there seemed to be too much contrast with the shadowed parts of his hair so that it was jarring rather than connected.
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. I was a bit meh on that myself, but towards the end I'd realized I worked on this vid for half a year and enough was enough and set myself a deadline. (Le sigh.)
One other part that really struck me, before I forget, was the echoing of Kanan's knife with Gojyo's scars, and with the beam of Iisou's puppet shooting at Gojyo, how they flash one after the other almost like subliminal messages (like how you first worked in the Gaiden images too, with the eyes), and even the angles line up and echo each other. Not a connection I'd made before consciously, and you make it so powerfully here each time, as if Kanan's knife and Gojyo almost getting killed those two times cause the same pain, all tangled up together in Hakkai's messed up emotional state.
YES! ::bounce!:: Completely! =D
Strange, because a lot of it is there in the lyrics -- the not quite connecting at first, despite wanting to connect, but the past was too much in the way.
::nodnodnod::
Then realizing how much they meant to each other when they were separated and Gojyo thought Gonou was dead -- and *that* scene was also so very well done, especially the way you used the frames to fragment and juxtapose and layer things
Yay! thank you! I was a bit stumped as to how to show relationship when they're separated, but then just went back and decided to carry through the theme of blocks of frames and fragments.
then once they were together again they kept trying to save and protect each other, and failing, and finally realizing that they can't save each other from their pasts, and they certainly can't save each other from themselves, but they can be there for each other and they can accept each other completely and that's what matters most.
OMG YES. YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT SO MUCH. ::SNOGS::
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ohhh! ::wibbles and glomps::
although if you don't mind a bit of concrit from a vid-watching newbie, it seemed in a couple of the nighttime scenes in the woods from the Chin Iisou arc, Gojyo's hair was a bit too bright and saturated to look like part of the scene, when everything else was so dull and either dark or washed out, and there seemed to be too much contrast with the shadowed parts of his hair so that it was jarring rather than connected.
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. I was a bit meh on that myself, but towards the end I'd realized I worked on this vid for half a year and enough was enough and set myself a deadline. (Le sigh.)
One other part that really struck me, before I forget, was the echoing of Kanan's knife with Gojyo's scars, and with the beam of Iisou's puppet shooting at Gojyo, how they flash one after the other almost like subliminal messages (like how you first worked in the Gaiden images too, with the eyes), and even the angles line up and echo each other. Not a connection I'd made before consciously, and you make it so powerfully here each time, as if Kanan's knife and Gojyo almost getting killed those two times cause the same pain, all tangled up together in Hakkai's messed up emotional state.
YES! ::bounce!:: Completely! =D
Strange, because a lot of it is there in the lyrics -- the not quite connecting at first, despite wanting to connect, but the past was too much in the way.
::nodnodnod::
Then realizing how much they meant to each other when they were separated and Gojyo thought Gonou was dead -- and *that* scene was also so very well done, especially the way you used the frames to fragment and juxtapose and layer things
Yay! thank you! I was a bit stumped as to how to show relationship when they're separated, but then just went back and decided to carry through the theme of blocks of frames and fragments.
then once they were together again they kept trying to save and protect each other, and failing, and finally realizing that they can't save each other from their pasts, and they certainly can't save each other from themselves, but they can be there for each other and they can accept each other completely and that's what matters most.
OMG YES. YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT SO MUCH. ::SNOGS::