"#1 Contender FMVC Championship Match" - sts vs Charismatic

[dead sarcastic]

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sts - 

Charismatic -

[[pain]]

I already want to end this torture
sts: I'll be honest I didn't understand anything, I don't know the wrestler because I don't watch female wrestling, it seems like a waste of time, I prefer to see Ibushi's butt. Continuing I did not understand anything but I think it was about her being a face and turned heel and suffers a lot but I don't know, anyway it's a good video.
Charisnatic: Too short a video, it looks like a Goldberg vs Lesnar match, this basically meets entertaining and nothing else. I did not end up crying but neither was I excited by the end of the Stylopz video, my suffering is finally over.

[Storm]

sts: This IMO is your best video yet. Intro was a beautiful touch and entire beginning was very well done, loved especially "and our chances flowing by" part, "I will remember you with me on that field" was also so well synced. Effect that you used to build a chorus was pretty nice but chorus just wasn't working for me. It didn't feel like it had any direction nor pace and I just couldn't connect to it whatsover. Tho as soon as song slowed down you continued with pretty good job, really smooth editing with nice pace play that made everything feel emotional. Everything like with first build up was on point but again same problem with chorus so I will just skip it to not repeat myself. After this is my favorite part, beautiful introduction and building up of 5 star gp with shots of the trophy while subtly showing past winners. That was incredibly creative and beautiful, standing out part of the edit IMO. Then showing the determination to win the entire thing, this was MUCH better than choruses and it was a pretty enjoyable part. Ending was beautiful and honestly even tho choruses weren't that fun to watch, this entire edit was incredibly smooth and I can see thought and care put into it. Awesome job with this and I hope that you will continue with this quality onwards!

Chari: You can do better than this Chari. I feel like song choice was terrible because it doesn't really go with his emotion for this tournament and because of language barrier I can't connect nor understand lyrics and tone by itself isn't working with this. I feel like this edit suffers terribly from being too short, matches have no explanation and someone who doesn't watch the product regularly wouldn't understand the meaning. Tanahashi and Okada matches shouldn't have been that short, both of them had huge meaning. Final match was the best edited part, it was really fun but it shouldn't have been edited this way. It's synced but nothing has space to breathe, viewer doesn't know what match this is, doesn't get to know the meaning of it and because of too fast paced moves, match just goes by and nothing has any depth or meaning. His final finisher had no impact in this video and it was a very emotional and dramatic moment. Honestly this is overall a fun quick edit but for this story it was a bad decision, it should have not been this type of edit to present Kota's story. It's not bad by any means just incredibly shallow and it shouldn't have felt like a freestyle, honestly you can do much better than this Chari.

[thegoodguy]

sts: this was pretty cool. the intro, text work and slow build in the beginning was absolutely beautiful. your syncing is somewhat inconsistent in my honest opinion, but its not horrible. like it's maybe like the tiniest frame or two off during the fast parts, i think put some more care into that. what you seem to struggle on the most is concept and trying to get people to care about the wrestler you're editing. some people will be ignorant and hate it no matter what, but i know others want to genuinely learn about a new wrestler. i always try to keep an open mind with wrestling. anyway, i felt like 5 minutes was way too much. this could've been done in half the time. small utami recap (can be done in a minute), 5 star gp recap and her winning it. maybe 2:30-3 minutes would've been ideal. the flashbacks to previous winners seemed a tad unnessesary and felt like filler to cut more time. last part of the video really picked up and i enjoyed what you did. nice twitch, nice flickers, generally good stuff. for future i'd say really think about the wrestler you're editing, think about their moveset/attitude/gimmick and find a song that'd fit them. by the way feedback sometimes tends to seem overly negative, but it's there to help. this was overall a solid video, but if you improve on some things it could be great.

charismatic: this was a fun short video, although i'm not sure much else to say besides that. i thought this had a lot more potential, but wasn't realised. it very much seemed like "cool song, i will do an ibushi video" and you know what there's nothing wrong with that, but for me it just lacks substance. i think you could've worked on the structure for this a little more and the beginning half seemed somewhat weirdly synced at least for me. working around slow beats is not the most obvious or easy thing to do, but listen to the music closely and you'll find a way to sync it well. i thought the last match had some decent signs of syncing and i appreciate the fast pace that it kept. although, i do think the syncing overall during that section was on and off. keep it up though, you show good signs of potential with all your videos!

[stylopz]

Charismatic: This didn't meet my expectations at all, sadly in a bad way.
After your Benoit video, I thought while your video wasn't super well edited but at least you showcased to be skilled enough,
to structure it with goood clip selection, hitting some sick lyrical syncs but,
this time, got nothing on me to chew on or really rewatch on this one sadly.
I think that I could go rewatch P1's "Lost and Found" video right now and I bet it literally started with Tanahashi beating him or Tanahashi match overall.
Then, you jumped right into the G1 29, no proper transition or showcase of Ibushi's 2019 struggles like him getting concussed by Ospreay,
him winning and then losing to Naito almost having put an end to his career due to that neck bump he took on the apron or his best friend
leaving him all alone making feel numb and lost. And yes those struggles were definetely important to show because not only it would
give your video a lot more personality and storytelling but it just would make his G1 win a lot more meaningful, you know?
I wasn't a fan of song choice as it literally gave nothing more than a vibe match due to the fact that it's a Japanese wrestler you're
showcasing, but most people are not gonna understand what exactly the song talks about and I doubt you even do so, so yeah.
Editing wise I can say this was ok , although you lost the pace a lot of couples of times, it's like you go fast, but then you
stop editing like on that White superplex so it is a little bit odd. I wasn't a fan of the color correcton as it felt like contrast
wasn't necessary there and ghosting was distracting and I would right click on each clip and "disable resample" on them.
I think that to find your own groove, you need to take risks until you really see what works for you,
everytime I watch a video of yours I have the feeling like you get stuck on a line or limit of what you are going for, it's like you can't
get outside of the box for certain stuff,but then you're afraid of making mistakes and that will only hold you back.
Don't consider this like I am trying to bash you, I just analysed your video so you could understand what exactly you need to work on
for next time, I think you're really good but you need to expand your creativity and work on structuring your videos to start standing out.

sts: I love how you are now going for longer videos, I think you absolutely are on a good path in terms of that, taking risks is something I admire
I do still get confused not sure if it's because of my little knowledge, or the video's structure or
overall all of that. I do admire your effects, they always look nice and I really loved the vignettes in that intro. I just thought
that maybe some font work below "WORK" could've been done as it was hard to see. But I have few questions I would like you to answer.
When german on Piper is about to happen, what did that effect at 1:09 mean in the process of it? Was it the amount of people she had to
beat to get to Piper ? Or you randomly did a unique type of freestyle? Also, that part of you showing other wrestlers who won that 5 Star Grand Prix when she was entering
was well done, I loved it bro I think me who doesn't watch Stardom got a really good idea of your ambitious side to the video and I'm
glad you did so. Color correction, flickers and twitches was all very nice to look at at.
Personally, this could've been been synced and paced better and I also didn't feel the song choice didn't feel like it was well
thought out for the topic. Other than that, good stuff my dude.

[N.g.N]

STS VS CHARI
STS: I don't know much about you but this video was quite good, the effects, transitions and others were very beautiful, the only thing I did not like was the duration, it was a bit long but still, good job

Chari: it's not my favorite video of you, you could do better but it was still entertaining, algún día te enfrentaré

My vote is for sts

[dead sarcastic]

sts: I remember you showing me a preview as you were making this, and I just knew this was gonna be phenomenal. I feel like you've had a good string of videos for the past 5 months with the Kai, AZM. and now this Utami MV. This one being probably my favorite. Everything about it is well executed IMO.
Only nitpick I had was the small cookie cutter flashbacks in the center throughout the video. I dont think they were necessary nor were they too appealing. But in some way it made the video more unique and fun.
Love the text and graphics you've been making for your videos. They look so professional and always do a good job at presenting the type of aesthetic you're going for. This one seemed to have a more serious tone, as it was about Utamis journey from debuting in Stardom not long ago to becoming this years 5 star grand prix winner.and although it's a pretty simple narrative of a wrestlers journey from point A to Point B, it was still very fun to see and I honestly could t take my eyes off the video. It seemed very detailed and you understood your subject very well. I loved how you showed clips of the past winners of the tournament showing how much it means to win it.
You're easily one of my favorite editors and I hope you keep improving. Each video just keeps getting better!

Charismatic: Very different from the rest of your videos. I like the different approach with your subject. Rather than showing a long video about Ibushi's journey to becoming the G1 Winner, you took went another route of mainly focusing on the match itself while also adding a little backstory as to why winning this tournament would be a big thing.
I like a majority of the editing. Especially during the Final recap part. You do a great job at highlighting that match, cause your White V Ibushi recap from mo ths ago was fantastic. And although this short recap was like a minute long, you did a good job at managing the pace with the song and syncing everything pretty well. Only concern I had with this was the quality of the Ibushi vs Archer match. Normally, I'm not too harsh when it comes to quality, but I do think it would have been better if you had gotten a higher quality of that match. Also, do your best to crop all the watermarks out of the frame whenever you use the black bars on the top and bottom. They can so.etimes be a distraction.
Other than that this was a fun watch. Awesome song choice btw. That's gotta be one of my favorite song choices from this event.

[omzy]

Sts: I didn't understand much, I hardly keep up with womens wrestling but besides the story and the wrestlers involved, effects and song choice were well thought of. Beautiful transitions as well, shows how much effort was put into this.

Chari: definitely something different, this was short and sweet so it was fun to watch. Im always picky when it comes to quality but again theres not much you could have done, most of the edit was good though.

[peterkowalski]

STS: Great Stuff Mate, as a sucker for intros I loved this one it was so nice and polish. I like others around here don't follow Stardom or any other Joshi Company but it didn't matter this felt great. The transitions were smooth and in overall I thought it was a fantastic piece, The story you told was easy to follow for someone who has no idea about the subject, I liked the dark vignette you used it really enhanced the video like other guy said I don't think the song choice was the best that's obviously something subjective but to me it really didn't match but that really doesn't matter like I said it's just taste so keep doing it.
Good Edit.

Chari: Alright given the fact that you had to edit in the conditions that you did It came better than I expected, you are a talented editor and to me it shows in this video in particular, since you had to trim a lot of the plans that you had I thought it came out nicely. Obviously it's too short and you did add some little storytelling to make it better which I can appreciate.
The quality it's not the best but it's understandable the song choice it's polarizing haha but I kinda see what you wanted.
Nice Edit.

[p1]

sts: This is probably one of the best videos I have seen from you. I think you should go for longer videos like this one more often because I feel that you can showcase wrestlers and add storytelling elements better than in let's say 2 minute video. Editing wise, the video was really smooth and everything flowed pretty well. I also noticed that the video sped by, without any moments that felt too dull. All in all, I am really satisfied with this video, keep up the good work.

Chari: This video has one big flaw that leads to many other flaws, and it's the length. There are 1-minute videos that can work in some other context, but I think that Ibushi's downfall and path to getting back up can't be told properly in that short amount of time. When I said that one big flaw leads to other flaws, I meant that because video is 1,5 minute long and you had to throw in all of his pre-G1 and G1 run, which leads to really fast moving and kinda rushed edit. The viewer has no time to feel bad for the character and the feeling of satisfying conclusion isn't there. There were good things obviously, when I forget about the context the edit is enjoyable, but overall it isn't what I have come to expect from you. I don't know what's the reason, is it lack of time or motivation, but I know one thing: you can do a lot better than this.