ef AMV: Nothing’s Missing (Anime North 2011 winner)

Anime North 2011 MVC: Novice division GOLD MEDAL! Thank you everyone! (DISCLAIMER: As per Anime North MVC rules, only one of the No Name Losers was involved in the production of this AMV. The rest of the team merely provided feedback and suggestions.) ARTISTIC NOTES Please bear in mind that this was our first attempt at an AMV. That being said, we wanted to avoid the cliched pitfalls of too many special effects and lip-syncing. They’re good if they’re done right, but we felt ef was strong enough to not require those. The first challenge was to pay tribute to ef - a fairy tale of the two, or more specifically, ef - the first tale, since that’s coming out first. In order to do so, we restricted ourselves to only using stills from the visual novel and not from the anime. This would make our music video unique, but introduced another challenge: trying to bring the stills to life. We read up on the Ken Burns effect [] and app