Cry of Achilles official music video contest

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Oh goodness, there's 12 now. I guess Will is right. People submit it at the last minute to make sure that the competition was not stealing the gist of the idea.

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Holy sheitz, this animated one is pretty badass haha! http://genero.tv/watch-video/38299
Haven't watched the other 'last-minute' ones yet... although I see more animated videos!


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I think there's 12 and people should put their favorite links here so I can only watch the good ones...lol.
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anguyen92 wrote:So. What does everyone else think about these videos?
They're all meh. Granted i'm not saying I could do anything better; but nothing really stands out in the videos except for the animated one.

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I put up an entry in that contest (Drenco Creative). It took about a month's work part time at night. More of an art project than anything. As an artist, I wanted to see what I could come up with. $7000 would be great but as with any contest …no one should rely on them for rent money. There are about 16 entries. Some are really cool! See a making of my video here: https://vimeo.com/98344258 You'll see how I made the car, puppet etc.

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I loved the animation vid!
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Theres not a single video that I could sit through watching.
Again, I hope the band only picks the concept of a video and works further on it.
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Andy92 wrote:I think there's 12 and people should put their favorite links here so I can only watch the good ones...lol.
All right, 16 total. That's pretty decent. I think I like this one the most from what I've watched.

http://genero.tv/watch-video/38293

Nothing like some weird dancing lady from afar doing whatever she can to spiritually not let a guy commit suicide by falling off a cliff.

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I'll have to check some more of them out. That one you posted isn't too bad. Thought it was kinda weird at first, but it made sense as it went on.
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I don't know. I greatly admire the talents to put something like these videos together, whether they're animated real life, but of the first 10 I've watched, none of them really fit the song well. It's the first time I ever wished CoA weren't so long.
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I felt that way with Lover Greg lol. It got old watching all those videos in a row.

I haven't watched these yet. Didn't know there were that many yet. I'll have to watch them later when I get home.
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At least some of these video contest entries are effective tourism promotion. I want to go to Europe.
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gbruin wrote:I don't know. I greatly admire the talents to put something like these videos together, whether they're animated real life, but of the first 10 I've watched, none of them really fit the song well. It's the first time I ever wished CoA weren't so long.
That's what I have been thinking! The entrants had to make a mini-movie. You almost have to have a plot or something. Cool images, and weird/fun to watch stuff works for a 3:30 min. song, but when you're at 6-7 minutes, you have to have a story, some reason to keep watching.

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gbruin wrote:I don't know. I greatly admire the talents to put something like these videos together, whether they're animated real life, but of the first 10 I've watched, none of them really fit the song well. It's the first time I ever wished CoA weren't so long.
haha i had to watch the animation one to see where it was going...watched it till the end but still didnt get it--some good bits but some not so good--kudos to who ever did it but not for me

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I watched all 16 videos and none of them fit the song. Truth be told, CoA is a very peculiar song with very peculiar lyrics to be well made into a video.

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So here's my thoughts on all of the videos. I sorted the list by most viewed so these are in order of "most viewed videos" as of this morning.

If any of these videos were made by people here, please don't take offense to any of my comments. Just trying to be honest. :)

1. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38284
Too many scenery shots. Dragged on a bit... didn't care for this one.

2. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38302
I really liked this video. While it can be improved, the concept was great.

3. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38294
I appreciate the art and animation in this one, just didn't do it for me in terms of a music video.

4. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38288
I liked the concept and story of this video. It's probably my third favorite video.

5. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38282
Didn't care for this one either.

6. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38293
This one was ok, just didn't fit the song I don't think.

7. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38301
Didn't care for this one. The "story" was distracted by all of the abstract skulls and stuff going on in between IMO.

8. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38299
Loved it. This would be my pick for a winner if I had a say.

9. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38280
Didn't care for this one.

10. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38305
The story was good in this one and I was getting into the video and then they started flashing still photos of the band. I thought that ruined it. Guess they needed time to fill for such a long song.

11. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38292
So this video was about running. And more running. And even more running. Eh...

12. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38297
Eh, didn't care for this one at all

13. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38298
Didn't like it. Seemed boring with a lot of the same stuff going on for a long time... running... wolf bite... etc.

14. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38283
Video didn't fit the song at all.

15. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38296
The first 2 minutes of the video is a naked woman writhing around on a floor or her dancing on stage. More started happening later on but it kind of dragged on.

16. http://genero.tv/watch-video/38300
Didn't like it. I didn't even finish it. Skipped through a bunch of it.
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hmmm..just dont think any really fit.

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I've seen one and didn't like it at all. It was about some girl/guy with a magical pocketwatch. It was painful to watch.

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who do you think people are that enter these competitions? are they fans or just video/film makers looking to make some cash to further their career--I havent seen any that I would think would be from a fan?

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