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• Member: Ingow
• Studio: Powerstorm Studios
• Title: Mädchen
• Premiered: 2005-07-07
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
• Song:
  • Glashaus Wenn Sie Weint
• Anime:
  • Ranma 1/2
• Comments: Yes, it seems I have become a complete patriot.
  
  The title is german and translated it reads "Girl" (pretty simple, eh?) and the
  song title means "When she's crying". This time I can really be sure that you
  won't need to understand the lyrics of the song because it's all about the main
  idea or the main concept of this video.
  
  What I wanted to achieve here was to extract the drama from this very episode
  of the anime. Yeah, it's just one episode, I didn't use anything else. It's the episode
  in which Ranma gets hit on the head and starts believing he's a girl. Yeah, you're right
  - this has been used quite a lot. But I thought it would be a good idea to try and
  eleminate the parody and the slapstick of this whole episode and make it look like
  it's serious and dramatic. So I had to close a lot of mouths since they're talking and
  talking all the time in this anime series. I had to play around with the saturation and
  color settings as well as blurs to get a more dramatic atmosphere out of the footage
  as well. In the end you can see how it looks in it's original forms.
  
  As for the action synch I thought about effects and how to get the beats done but
  nothing really seemed to be looking good. That's why I once again decided it to be
  simple fades and simple editing. I tried to go along with the background flow and the
  vocals if anyone notices that besides myself - I would have gone crazy trying to synch
  the foreground beats. And even if it seems I'm just saying this because I couldn't do it
  I think that this way of synching was better for creating the more dramatic feeling of the video.
  
  The video tells the story of the relationship between Akane and Girl-Ranma. It shows
  everything from the beginning to the end. That's why it's a kind of Character Profile
  as well. Maybe not much about Akane, but there's enough about Ranchan.
  
  Video Quality was something I spend more time on than usual. I wanted to get you
  a small size file since a lot of the end is for germans only (some little gimmicks) and
  it wouldn't have been nice of me to let you download a 90mb file where 20% is stuff you
  can't understand. Still I had run some filters through VDub and AVS to at least keep some
  of the quality. The orignal DVDs are german - they suck. As said before I tried to get
  the best out of them.