Elric Blues Brothers

This was one of my submissions to the AnimeIowa 2009 AMV contest. It didn't win, but I heard it was played during halftime at the cosplay masquerade and received a great reaction from the audience, which works just as well for me.

As should be obvious from the video title, I used footage from Fullmetal Alchemist with the audio from the "Blues Brothers" theatrical trailer.

Please give me feedback! Let me know what you think. What I did well, what I can improve on, anything at all.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Anime
• Music
• Video
• AMV
• Contest
• Trailer
• AnimeIowa
• 2009
• Fullmetal
• Alchemist
• Elric
• Blues
• Brothers
• John
• Belushi
• Dan
• Aykroyd
• Comedy

[TheCyancat]

Yeah, as AMV Head, I had figured that this might win, it was such a good combination.

But to tell you the truth, during judging, the other judges deducted points because the lip-synch was off. If you can master that area, you are set for gold!!

I did love it tho! Thats why I had to let the audience see it, too good not to see!

[MitchQuadrupleTree]

Yeah, I know there's a couple sections with that problem (the scene with Scar, Al, the old man and the kid all in the car, and the bit with Izumi come straight to mind). I was running short of time and I couldn't figure out how to contend with the fact that the backgrounds are in motion. Would you know a way?

[TheCyancat]

Well, it depends on what you use for your video production. I use Premiere, so I have a multitude of layers to use.

What I do is take the scene with movement and place that on the bottom, making sure to repeat it over and such so that the continuity looks good.

Then I take a capture of each mouth movement

Placing that over the movement video, I crop the picture down to just the mouth or the top half of the scene, depends on the movement.

Then just lip-synch with the captures, cropping each one

[MitchQuadrupleTree]

Excellent! Thanks very much.

[Jayrich20]

Made. Of! AWESOME!!!!!!!

[MitchQuadrupleTree]

Thanks! ^_^

[BigD1987]

"It's 106 miles to Central. We got a full tank of gas, a Philosopher's Stone, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

"Hit it."

[TheAnimeExpert]

i saw this at anime iowa i fucking love this

[MitchQuadrupleTree]

I don't know about that, since it didn't actually win in the contest, but as long as people enjoy it, that's all I care about.

[Irishflyboy255]

Don't you mean...Made of WIN!