Technician

Vidol's latest video, entitled Tellier, explores new boundaries for Halo frag video editing. The surreal style was executed to perfection down to the smallest detail; even the distortion and synchronized motion blur contributed to this dream-like state. Vidol also abstractly incorporated a story within this theme, as the clips are shown chronologically, viewed from the perspective of a secret camera stalking Caratti, the star in this video. Although this concept is not distinctly noticeable upon first watch, it is a nice touch that makes sense of the dates on the screen, and adds to Tellier's replay value.

The frags themselves are hardly impressive on their own. However, the heart of this video does not lie within the frags themselves, but with surreal theme Vidol created from the frags. Because of this, I have decided to give the content a higher score than the frags actual deserve. One may argue I am bridging the gaps too much between the content and editing. However, with a video as artistically heavy as this, I believe the content consists of the theme and style of the video as much as of the frags themselves. Judging the content solely based on the frags doesn't do Tellier's content justice because that isn't where the heart of the video lies.

The only area that disappointing me was the quality. Editing this video with HD recordings would have made the experience even more immerse. SD quality is a thing of the past, and it's a shame Tellier didn't keep up with the times in this aspect. Fortunately, the quality is still very tolerable. In fact, for SD quality, it is one of the better looking videos I've seen. It still doesn't compare to HDPVR and BMI pro recordings, though. We can only hope Vidol decides to direct Tellier 2 in HD, which, after watching this, I am eagerly anticipating.