IMPORTANT: The sync is off by about half a second when viewing on YouTube. I don't upload WMV formated videos anymore for this reason, please download at the link below for MUCH better sync. :)
*Anime Boston 2007: Best Action Video Nominee*
*All-Con 2008: Winner For Best Action*
THIS VIDEO IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUSICAL ARTIST OR ANIME COMPANY IN ANY WAY.
*Update [5/01/07]: Forsaken is now available for download!* You can download a very high quality version of my AMV here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=143277
PLEASE DO NOT RE-POST THIS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE. :) I will be very grateful if no one does that. Reposts = bad. Thanks and enjoy!
If you don't want to download the video but want higher quality, make sure to add &fmt=18 at the end of my video's url to see it in higher quality. Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZzzC41Yw4&fmt=18 Doing so sometimes seems to make it a little jumpy and slightly off sync though. Make sure you let it load up all the way if you want to view it in high quality on YouTube or it will not play well at all.
The idea of this video was in my mind for weeks after listening to Forsaken by Within Temptation one day. It just hit me: The lyrics almost seem to be written specifically for the movie. The song and video are about destruction of human kind as well as the whole planet due to greed and sadness. It's about technology, new developments, how people are feeling forgotten due to everyone else's desire for power, and how the world is turning into something completely different and dying right in front of everyone's eyes.
Special thanks to ZelosWilder & Tasuki for help with converting and giving me support, Adam Ferraro for giving me the opportunity to be in the contest and answering e-mails from me, all the contest viewers and also to ALL of the INCREDIBLE AMV makers out there that got me into AMV making myself. Thanks to all!
I hope you enjoy the video, even though YouTube's conversion resulted in much quality loss, cut effects, and somewhat off timing. Those who want to download a very high quality version of this video can go to the link above. :)
Here are the lyrics to Forsaken by Within Temptation:
Now the day has come.
We are forsaken this time.
We lived our lives in our paradise,
As gods we shaped the world around.
No borderlines we'd stay behind,
Though balance is something fragile.
While we thought we were gaining,
We'd turn back the tide, it still slips away.
Our time has run out, our future has died,
There's no more escape.
Now the day has come,
We are forsaken,
There's no time anymore.
Life will pass us by,
We are forsaken,
We're the last of our kind.
The sacrifice was much too high,
Our greed just made us all go blind.
We tried to hide what we feared inside.
Today is the end of tomorrow.
As the sea started rising,
The land that we conquered just washed away.
Although we all have tried to turn back the tide,
It was all in vain.
Now the day has come,
We are forsaken,
There's no time anymore.
Life will pass us by,we are forsaken,
Only ruins stay behind.
Now the day has come.
We are forsaken this time.
Now the day has come,
We are forsaken,
There's no time anymore.
Now the day has come.
The day has come.
The day has come.
Honors:
#26 - Top Favorites (04/29/07) - Film & Animation - All
#21 - Top Favorites (04/29/07) - Film & Animation - English
#95 - Top Rated (04/30/07) - Film & Animation - All
Tags: Forsaken Within Temptation Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Anime Boston 2007 AMV Contest Finalist Action AB All-Con
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