Gangsta 「 AMV 」 Streetwalker
ANIME: Gangsta.
MUSIC: Tamer - Beautiful Crime
EDITOR: Cenit
CREATED: January 2, 2016
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VIDEO COMMENTS:
This was supposed to be my last AMV of 2015, but because of Akross being slow (took them 12 days to release it, last time it was 3), this is now my first AMV of 2016. Bye bye VCA :(. Anyway welcome to my third attempt at AkrossCon. After 'Dealing With Life' in 2010 and 'Runaway Boy' in 2012 i'm quite happy with what might be my final entry for that contest. This video was always meant for Akross and their community. Otherwise i probably wouldn't have edited it.
So after my last AMV Gurren Lagann Orchestral i was kinda burned out and felt like i would need to take a break. 2015 has been a crazy year for me but i hope to create many more new videos in 2016. But 2015 was also a lot of tying up loose ends and finishing old projects (and creating my soon to be released 10-year editor anniversary AMV which you soon will be able to find here). It took me a couple of Iron-Chefs and MEPs to get back into the swing.
I really loved the early Gangsta episodes and wanted to edit to it. However, the Anime did not proceed like i hoped it would. And i knew that if i would ever want to edit to it, I should do so now. Because in the end it's not a very good Anime and will likely be forgotten soon. But everything was already in place so i decided to stop complaining and just do it.
I started editing late November 2015. Things went easy at first but i faced some real challenges connecting the dots. There was just not enough character based violence for the end. Not enough drama for the middle part. Once again I had to compromise and include story threads that i originally did not intend to use. Like the kissing in the rain. Originally i wanted to portray the two male leads even more crazy and ruthless towards the girl. I wanted the revenge to feel more like it was just fun for them. That they just walked through the life of the girl because it pleases them. That they actually didn't care about her and were just out for blood. I kinda did that. That's kinda how it goes in the Anime. But i my head it was up to 11. I still like the outcome.
The AMV changed quite a bit during beta testing. I always had planned for color corrections but didn't include them in the beta. Sojiro suggested to go all Jessica Jones, which i had considered before. His approval was all it needed. He also showed me some tricks in photoshop and i developed my visual concept from there. ceddic helped my with achieving these goals in Sony Vegas while we collaboratively working on Mc Force. Pic4 noticed some major flaws in the original audio file which lead me to purchase a FLAC file of the song. Big thank you to all three! Now here's to waiting for the AkrossCon 2015 results!
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SOFTWARE USED:
Sony Vegas 13
Adobe Photoshop CS6
VirtualDub
Avisynth
Zarx264
