Vivy: How to IM.PACT
Vivy is the most high impact anime I am watching this season. But while much of it can be attributed to its fast-paced sci-fi plot, I feel much more inclined to breakdown one of the more subtle reasons that made this anime so thrilling -- Its structural composition. Now I am a sucker for structure. Shit like introduction, rising action, climax and then ending makes me a happy man and when writers go out their way to subvert conventional structures in their stories, that is when my brain juices really start pumping. Vivy does this perfectly with their sharpest technique -- The art of the hard-cuts. Sound cuts This scene uses two sound cuts in two polar structures. The first is the use of the explosion sound cut to the music and the second is the use of music sound cut to the explosion; The first explosion provides a hard cut into the sound track, emphasizing the impact of the dreadful melody. The latter sound cut does the opposite. Instead of using the punchy sound effect to place ...