Reviews for Mulan Kinetic Typography

[saridout]

Needs Work, but Good Start

To me, this seems like a good rough draft. It needs quite a bit more polish. To start with, the background is pretty boring. You might think about adding an inner glow in a darker color, like in this kinetic typography vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejweI0 EQpX8

I know you used all red text to maintain continuity, but after watching for under a minute, i started to lose interest in it because the text was so monotonous. Even if you choose to stick with red only, you might consider different tints and shades of red to add some interest.

I agree with TheInXorable, the horizontal to vertical orientation change is hard to follow. It's also confusing when you use a letter from one word to start another word, scrabble-style. You need to keep a close eye on your leading and kerning and tighten it up overall. Some of the words had very irregular kerning and it was distracting.

You made a good song choice, with lots of interesting imagery in the lyrics. You need to take advantage of that imagery with some variety regarding color and texture.

kazoodac responds:

Thank you very much for taking the time to write this review, especially since you created a NG just to do so.

I really appreciate the constructive criticism agree with pretty much everything you have said here. In essence, any piece of work can be improved upon, and this is no exception. If I had more time I would definitely go back and experiment more with tints and shades, and definitely do something about the vertical readability. Anyway, the project has already been submitted, but if I end up going back in to do more to this, I will definitely take this to heart!

[Jumpcut]

Allright

Pretty decent for a flash typography project. Nothing special but okay. Timing on the words was good. You should've used different colours for the different voices though (especially the "be a man" chorus). Would have made it more interesting and contrasted. Also maybe add some more visual elements here and there, and textures. Basically I agree with most of what saridout said. Keep creating :)

[SirPuppy]

it was fun

It was pretty cool, I'm no expert but the timing was good, I understand what the one guy was saying about 'scrabble-y' but it was fun to watch in any event.

kazoodac responds:

well, I'm glad you enjoyed it to some extent!

[TiffanyRae]

ehh

I liked it just because I love the song, and the timing was pretty decent -- but I think you could do a lot better. It's typography, so it makes sense to change the font & color, no? And it would also make more sense to put emphasis on the words that the singer puts emphasis on: such as "SPINELESS, PALE, *PATHETIC" lot, and not "spineless, pale, pathetic LOT."
Punctuation would also help it, where necessary ("did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?").
But you've got the right ideas!~

[LongshotLink]

It was alright.

It was a good idea, but it just seemed lacking to me. The flow of the words seemed confusing, appearing out of strange directions. Honestly, it just felt really crowded, like I needed some space to look at the words rather than the whole screen being taken up with giant red words.