I've been thinking lately about how a common critique with AMVs is that the songs are too long.
I got one recently on my last AMV saying that the song I used for my drama vid (approximately 4 min, 15 sec) was too long and got boring. I hadn't even considered the possibility of the song being too long, having felt that it was of normal length.
I started wondering why it is that songs are considered too long at all. I can understand a comedy video that utilizes only one joke is best kept short so that the joke isn't exhausted. However, some of my favorite action, adventure, or drama vids are on the longer end of the spectrum, and are very well done.
For my next video (action/adventure) my song choice is 6 minutes long. I was looking at how I could shorten it and I could probably shave it down to about 4 and a half or so without too much difficulty. But I started thinking about it, and started wondering what exactly was wrong with a 6 minute video anyways. I wouldn't mind editing to the full song and being able to use all it's parts, and I think the series is long enough. After thinking about this for a while I decided I needed some outside opinions on this.
What factors do you think makes the shortening of a song necessary? What are your thoughts on longer amvs, and what's wrong with them, if anything? I'm basically sitting on the fence on this one as far as where to take the audio of my next amv, so any outside input to inspire thought and discussion would be great.




