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TalonBot
11-17-2008, 09:13 AM
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Machinima (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/machinima/), WoW Moviewatch (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/wow-moviewatch/)

This is a tough review. I'm a fan of music, especially ballad-like songs. I've never felt we see enough original fan-made music about WoW, and I'm still known to hum the tune to Big Blue Dress (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/14/wow-moviewatch-big-blue-dress/) from time to time. Yellow Grows the Grass (http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=94925) is a great song with good lyrics. I really enjoy the subject matter, and I appreciate what Boreas was trying to do.

Unfortunately, the production values fell short in this video. The animation itself is a relatively unmodified over-the-shoulder view of the game. The music track itself popped and cracked, sometimes even obscuring the words to the song. This kind of pained me, because I was really behind what the author was tryind to do here.

I hate to see a great effort plauged by production issues. I hope he can get some help with a better audio track, especially, because I thought the song was strong enough to carry the video if not for that issue. And though the animation, as I said, was relatively plain, the chosen imagery itself wasn't bad. It seemed to me like there was a very strong script, but the "camera-work" itself is what let the piece down. And like "Big Blue Dress," if the audio were clear and crisp, the video itself wouldn't really matter.

[Via WarcraftMovies (http://www.warcraftmovies.com)]

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