SH035 - break me down

video: Yumede Aetara
music: Adema - "Giving In"
link: depositfiles [39.3 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: March 2002

This is the same song that was used in SH027, but this was the video it was originally assigned to. This was an idea down near the bottom of the to-do list at the time, but it got pulled up as a result of the capturecardpocalypse mentioned earlier. Depending on perspective, it can be a good thing to do neat little videos like this one that don't have much in the way of ambition; at this point, it was kind of a force due to a lack of other ideas. Between SH033 and demo 3, there's a fair amount that can be contested on the logic of "well, maybe not making AMVs would have been an acceptable option", but I didn't see it that way at the time, and these videos turned out getting made.

SH027 - in to you

video: various
music: Adema - "Giving In"
link: depositfiles [39.2 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: January 2002

This video is wicked emo. I have enough other disturbingly emo videos in my catalog (no, not listing by name, they're pretty hard to miss) that I can't get off with blaming this on the spirit of the time and place (2002, college activities fair, emos are a prime target group for anime recruitment). It's the song more than any other fucking thing; even though this was a demo, I couldn't refrain from joking around on the lyrics a little, and it'd be dishonest to say that the chance to overdrive this into OTT dramedy didn't play into the decision to go ahead with this song as the music for SH035.