Welcome back Praxeum fans. We're going to jump into another video here.
It seems like it's an unfinished one - "J v. D" so...
Jeff versus David
Which David though?
Both of them
Oh boy. Very short one - only a minute. Oh wow.
So let's see what it's all about here
Guessing they're probably using it more as a promo
Oh yeah. Makes sense. It's unfinished. Get people's attention.
I'm liking the music. Yeah.
That'd be a good way to do it.
Have your promo have a song like this and have more of a traditional instrumental/classical piece for your actual video
Really liking this song. It's very fitting.
It's a very "you" song.
I like that bass right there
Definitely gonna have to look up the song. Should I Shazam it?
I'll Shazam it.
I'm liking the fighting style too. Yeah it looks like it has a lot of potential. Looks cool.
That's definitely what I'm gonna be looking up here.
Oh, I didn't Shazam it. You were too slow. Yeah - apparently.
Shame. A Sith being too slow.
I'm not a Sith. No surprise there.
You're out of character, sir.
You cannot resist a chance to take a jab at Lady Malice.
Nope
She's such an easy target
So... But yeah, let us know what you think of that one and
I look forward to watching the full product
Should be exciting. Maybe we'll do a reactional video to the full one. Yeah
So let us know what you think and we'll catch you in the next video
Welcome back, Praxeum fans. We're gonna start the next video here called Traitor Redeemed
It's from a Lightsaber Philippines.
Whoo, my people. Half your people. This half of me.
Walking down the city. Very epic!
I feel like I've seen this location in their Facebook content. Yeah.
They post a lot of training stuff
Enjoying the music. Nice meditation scene. And the backdrop
Nice view of the city - curious which city
I like when people aren't afraid to take their time setting the stage for the video
They're not like, "We need to cram in as much fighting as possible."
Very Anakin move - he rushed right into that fight despite his master's wishes
That's a cool effect for the Force Push. Yeah
Seems like the Dark Side user's not there to kill
We're not always bloodthirsty barbarians. It doubt it.
The moves are really graceful, which goes well with the music. Oh, yeah
That was a nice spin. Both into reverse grip. That's nice
Stalking their prey
Always a good move
Sure he's got a headache - getting up like that
Oh!
He's gonna strike first. Oh, I love the color on the face
That looks really cool...
Still the city glittering in the background. Yeah
Cool focus
I thought that was really well done
Yeah, very pretty. Lots of focus parts
Music was fantastic
Yeah - I enjoyed that. That was a pretty good one.
Well Traitor Redeemed, it seemed like he redeemed himself. Yeah, so
But we'll catch you in the next video and let us know what your thoughts are
All right, so Praxeum fans
thank you for spending the time with us and watching these videos with us
if you want to see the better quality and
the rest of the videos that we didn't cover
Just look up the Lightsaber Choreography Competition 2018
and feel free to check out the previous years. There's definitely a lot of good ones
My favorite still has been Ferocity. That's a real old one, I think 2011
Yeah, something like that
That was one of my first lightsaber fan films that I saw
but with this year, we're gonna talk about our favorites and
what we look forward to doing in the future and hopefully we get to enter next year.
So, what was your favorite?
Um, I made a list
I'd say my favorite was Darkness Unveiled, which was the one that had the darksaber.
I was pretty edge of my seat
Yes, you were
...with what was gonna happen, plus - Darksaber - and a lot of really cool visuals. I liked the costumes
I thought the choreography was good as well
Yeah, there were some definitely good bits. I loved the introduction of bringing in the Darksaber
I'm a huge Darksaber fans and the sound of it is just beautiful
It's a beautiful sound
It's definitely one of my favorite sabers, sorry Darth Maul, but it's the darksaber.
I was quite happy when Darth Maul did get it though
I would love to see him with like a staff and the darksaber all at one time
following in my footsteps
I would have to say mine is still
the Ender's Game. Endgame
Oh, was it Endgame? Yeah
The chess style was quite unique I definitely enjoyed that and
I just thought it was a nice
touch to it and the Pawn becoming the Queen
was definitely a nice touch and the King realizing he's about to die knights the new King. So I'm curious
...how the next one's gonna start. I think it would have been funny like seeing someone putting the pieces away with the faces
Or something like that if we wanted to kind of like break that fourth wall
Yeah, it was very visually striking and creative
Definitely one of the... I always enjoy those creative moments and they definitely had that
That's probably in my top five.
So I think one that we can agree that we liked was Divided though, definitely
Very artistic
Yeah, definitely interesting concept. They always leave you on a cliffhanger
Definitely a lot of good ones. I also really liked Light/Less. I'd say that Darkness Unveiled
and Light/Less were the two teaser photos that were posted on Facebook that really grabbed me
Light/Less had really good costumes and lightsaber colors and hair
As you'll find out I'm very big into - need to have the right hair to go with the costume otherwise
you can make or break a costume
True, I mean... And I thought they did a really good job at that.
Elements of the cosplay - you gotta make sure things are you know functional, efficient
'Cause like there are a lot of things you could do that
...aren't really practical, so - one issue I've seen
is like...kind of bracers because they can limit your wrist movement
The little shoulder armor. We tried it out at one con
Yeah, it looks super cool, but it's very limiting
Your not gonna be able to do a lot of head strikes and
like you even see like Darth Vader in the movies have issues with that and
if you ever decide to cosplay as Darth Vader you're gonna realize you can't lift your arms up
...past your face and that's why you see Darth Vader
in the movies leading back and lunging and coming down kind of like a sledgehammer technique
Which video was it that was using our Juyo?
I don't know, there were so many
But I really like when people are using lightsaber forms that aren't your typical...
I definitely enjoy when people are using the moves from Darth Maul or Obi-Wan/Anakin fight, but it's nice when
people use some of the forms that aren't quite as well known or actually use some of the exotics
like the tonfas, or the staff, or Jar'Kai, or pike in a way that makes sense for the weapon and isn't just because
"Oh, I thought this would be cool"
Yeah, definitely, you've got to be careful with using different lightsabers and you know
Making sure you're using a technique to go with that lightsaber instead of
Oh, I'm just gonna use this and then use, like the pike, as a regular lightsaber
You know you're...
you're at a disadvantage now because
you've got something with a longer hilt so you can't really use it as efficient as a single bladed lightsaber
And you're losing all the benefits of the pike, so...
Here's a thought for the purposes of creative, constructive criticism,
what advice would you give to people who are entering based on just having watched all the videos?
And with our experience as well. Start soon
Editing does take a good bit
Try to make sure you have a solid story line
Because the issue with like the time frame of
five minutes or less, is it's hard to put a story element in
there and a lot of these videos did a very good job
some did like here's the little caption at the very beginning kind of the Star Wars scroll or a narration or
Just kind of quick "Here's what's about to happen"
Or something that was classic enough that you could pick up on it pretty quickly
Yeah, so I mean there's definitely different ways of doing that storytelling
There's always no way is better than others, that's really how you go about doing it.
'Cause like the Star Wars scroll
it's fantastic for the Star Wars movies and
It gives a lot of the story right there. You know what's about to happen. You jump right into the movie
And sometimes a lot of movies do narration at the beginning to
Kind of sum-up, hey this is what's happening
If you watch Cinema Sins on YouTube, they
definitely jump on people who do the narration and whatnot all the movies that do because it is overdone
Eh. But, it's effective
so I mean, yeah, it's overdone but
If it's a working formula
you know don't reinvent the wheel
I liked how a lot of people weren't afraid to do something
unusual or something more light-hearted
Because it definitely breaks up...
They're all enjoyable videos, but when you sit and watch the whole playlist they can all blend into each other
So it can be nice when you get something like Cookies and Cream, it was just completely different
And I mean always throw your own twist on things
It adds to that story element, so you are expecting like the stereotypical Star Wars
You know Master vs. Apprentice, or Light vs. Dark
So it's always good to have that extra twist, like Cookies and Cream, or you know
the flashbacks from Friendship, throwing in the added element
So make sure you guys are having fun
That's what this competition's about, is having fun
So the people you're doing it with, try and have fun
So, how about you? Any constructive criticism for next year?
Definitely the story element. It can be really easy to, in your head, make sense because you're the one who
came up with the story, but then somebody else can be a little bit confused
This is more of a pet peeve, but I don't like people use non-traditional lightsaber colors for their characters
because when you have five minutes, you need to immediately be able to tell
who the good guy is or the bad guys is, who you're rooting for
and, while it can be creative to kind of throw in - oh, it's a Sith with a yellow lightsaber, or
the Jedi steals the Sith's lightsaber, I feel it makes it kind of hard to follow that story and keep track of who's who
Yeah
Most people tend to focus more on the lightsaber, so
you definitely tend to follow like - Oh, the red lightsaber's with him. Now, it's with him
They can get confusing at times but
If you throw in like the...
Because some shots are usually from more of a distance
so unless you can't really tell by the face all the time, so it's definitely
make sure there's different clothing involved and then you could tell even from a distance
I'd also definitely encourage everybody to put your logo on the video, or like come up with a name for
even if it's just you and a few friends, or production company, or whatever else
because it's nice when you can kind of follow people's work from year to year
And like, Oh I really liked their video from last year, I'm excited to check out the new piece
and kind of that branding and marketing aspect.
Yeah, definitely
Because more than likely most people aren't going to remember your face or
your YouTube channel or anything like that, but when they see that logo pop up that you created from
year after year, they go, "Oh, hey - I remember them from last year."
So definitely, you know think of a unique name. Think of a nice logo
Really set yourself apart. That definitely helps stick out in people's memories
Sammie has some advice
She wants to know why they were no puppy dogs. True. There were a lack of puppy dogs
That is why she was not interested in watching
But yeah, let us know what you all think of all the videos and
we enjoyed them. Hopefully we get to enter in next year and like my co-host said we're hoping to
finish up our video that we did this year
Shoutout to TC for putting in hours and hours of work
and we just kind of messed around with lightsabers for like an hour
Definitely hoping to enter next year. So we're looking forward to what the theme is next year
Now keep an eye out. We might actually enter finally
Third year's the charm
So until next time, May the Force be with You
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