Farewell, Satoshi Kon (Otakon 2011 AMV Contest: Romance/Sentimental Runner Up)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the following Satoshi Kon films: Memories, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue, Paprika, or Tokyo Godfathers, I also do not own the song A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. This is purely a fan production under fair use meant to serve as a tribute to the original work. Please support the original artists by purchasing any of the films of Satoshi Kon on DVD and/or the song A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton on CD.

DOWNLOAD LINK HERE: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=183249

WINNER: 2nd Place Romance/Sentimental Otakon 2011 AMV Contest
ENTERED FINALIST (non-winner): AnimeUSA 2011 AMV Contest
ENTERED FINALIST (non-winner): Katsucon 2012 AMV Contest
ENTERED (non-finalist): Nekocon 2011 AMV Contest

For those who don't know, Anime directing legend Satoshi Kon passed away last year of pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed with only a few months to live, and the illness progressed very rapidly. He chose to tell very few people, so the news came shockingly and suddenly to just about everyone. He was only 46 years old.

This is a video that is intensely personal for me. I was not a huge fan of the song used (very few people are, as I'm discovering), but I was a gigantic fan of the source footage. It is not one I felt I wanted to do, but rather one I felt I had to do. It was almost as if some unknown force drove me to complete it from start to finish. If he hadn't passed away, I probably wouldn't have made this. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

I am aware the song gets mixed reactions of people, but the way I see it, there are two types of videos. There are those where the footage picks the song, and the ones where the song picks the footage. This is one case of the footage picking the song. A rare instance where a song fits all the emotions I am trying to convey so perfectly it can not be passed up. And somehow, after devoting a month of my life completely to it, I think I've come to appreciate the song as well. I can only hope that people will not prematurely judge, and accept the video for what it is.

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Normally I edit along a timespan of months. This one took me 4 1/2 weeks. It was originally going to take 6 weeks, but my video card's internal memory spontaneously combusted, and it took a week and a half of wrangling with incompetent Dell staff to get it fixed. PROTIP: Never buy from Dell again.

My timespan is this long because I typically spend an hour or two every couple of days on editing. With this one, it became a second fulltime job. I wanted at least 3 months to complete it, but because I had decided to continue my education further with Graduate level work, I wasn't able to edit from January to April (Expendable Waltz was actually completed in December, I just took forever to upload.) So I was editing 4/6 hours a day!

Unlike my other videos, this one was light on effects. And by light, they were still everywhere, but this time they are much more..."traditional." Flashes, fadeins, fadeouts, some overlays, a couple of chroma keys, etc. There is ONE shot that is extremely heavily altered that lasts 3 seconds somewhere in the first half. See if you can spot it.

There is also a ton of speed altering going on here. Expendable Waltz was kinda a playground for this, and the experience paid off greatly here. Most of it was to match beats, and get all the shots I wanted. My first draft was actually twice as fast paced, and had twice as many cuts, but friends who beta'd for me found it impossible to follow, so I essentially slowed it down in increments until he and a few others were able to follow it easily. In the end, I slowed it down about 50%.

This video was entered into the Otakon 2011 AMV Contest, as well as the Anime USA 2011 and Katsucon 2012 AMV Contest. I hope you enjoy it. I honestly have no idea what I'm going to edit next, but I've got about 5 or 6 projects on the back-burner, so I'm sure I'll be able to pick out one of them.

As always, comments and constructive criticism is welcome. Trolling is not.

Edit:
Vegeta, what does youtube say about his viewercount?

ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone!

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[heather99100]

1:46 What is that from?

[UnderTheBoxProduct]

@heather99100 The woman on the cloud is from Paprika, the shot after with the girl with the dress and her father is from Memories: Magnetic Rose

[bibip12345]

can anybody tell me the anime title according to the slide? please.. all of u thx before



[UnderTheBoxProduct]

@bibip12345 I used 5 different Anime: Millennium Actress, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, and Memories (which is comprised of 3 short films, the one I used is titled Magnetic Rose, its the only one written by Satoshi Kon).

[woodpecker1997]

@UnderTheBoxProduct

which was the one that had the girl with the key and the one where the family are obsessing over a baby? (btw, peprika is one of my top faves<3)

[UnderTheBoxProduct]

@woodpecker1997 Girl w/key is from Millennium Actress, while the baby is from Tokyo Godfathers.

[UnderTheBoxProduct]

@MrEdge41492 That was...a horrific assault on the English language. I'm pretty sure you just committed some sort of war crime there. :/

[Quandtuniverse]

I watched this video at Otakon and sobbed like a baby. I am an animation student and Satoshi Kon is one of my greatest inspirations. I keep an article about him in my binder to remind me of the goals I hope to achieve in animation. When I see this video, my heart sinks in mourning for this fantastic animator, but it also gives me so much hope. I think you deserved to win and voted for best in category and in show, but I'm happy to hear you got 2nd place. I will cherish this AMV for a long time.

[darkolho]

anime/manga is the media (art entertainment) I like most because it is, in most, a lot more "deeper" whiles hollywood and brazilian movies (the ones I know) series and novels are "superficial" seams to me that they are done only for entertainment and to earn money as anime are something more, i know some movies are deeper and great as well but comon, this is splendid and anime world is beyond imagination hehe... thx Satoshi Kon and also many others who make this magic come true...

[darkolho]

@del345 pancreatic cancer SON OF A BITCH BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ukokyun48]

good work!

[del345]

@NeonGrapes2000 Died from pancreatic cancer T______T

[Starr1Bryte]

And I didn't tear up until that last quote... *sniff* Love it so much!

[enSHtEIN88]

Great work. R.I.P. Maestro...

[fish8chips]

LOVE IT!! so well done!! =)

[Ifrid87]

Satoshi Kon & Hayao Miyazaki ftw

[spbe2011]

whoooooow man reallllly a great video this what you made is art timing cut , fiting the song and anime .... a best aniem video seen sinc long long time thanx