Talk about your videos that you never released / never made
My first one was maybe back around late 2001, maybe early 2002. I wanted to use Bubblegum Crisis set against the English version of Two-Mix's "True Navigation". The rather naive noob that I was, my goal with the video was to create an amv with the most impressive special effects yet seen. (keep in mind, this wouldn't have been hard AT ALL back at that time) I actually got a few seconds of this one edited, but then something happened. I saw my first Japanese MAD - Winter Planet. It blew my mind so hard that I completely gave up on this amv.
A short while later, I began working on a live action Battle Royale video. I got about 1 minute into it, but then just gave up, because I thought the video sucked. This was the first time (but not the last) that I would give up on a video after having edited a large chunk of it.
At some point early in my amv career, I had an idea to use Battle Athletes Victory with Vitamin C - Graduation. The concept would have involved creating something like a school yearbook and showing some clips within the pages. I held onto this idea for several years before finally losing interest.
I wanna say around 2002, I got an idea that I carried with me up to this day. It was to be an Utena video set against X Japan's "Rose of Pain". This was an ambitious idea - An 11 minute long epic, with multiple storylines held together by a central theme. I bought all of the utena dvds in anticipation of making this video. But you know, the sheer intimidation of having to work on an 11 minute amv ensured that I never actually got started on this one. I kept thinking I would do it at some point, but it just never happened.
2003, I had an idea for a full moon wo sagashite video. It would have been one of my most ambitious videos yet at the time, and to be honest I'm still not sure whether I have completely given up on this one, so I wont say anymore.
After that, I went through a period where I had tons of AMV ideas, too many to actually make. I never even made efforts into starting most of them, aside from starting to plan them out in my mind. I don't even remember some of them, but I guess there were about 4 or 5 that I really wanted to do.
During the Retro Video Game Project, VG3, etc, I had lots of ideas for videos, but most of them didn't pan out for multiple reasons. One that I actually started working on was a Streets of Rage 2 video mixed with Ikkitousen. I was actually VERY pleased with what I had edited, but after the beginning of the song, I just couldn't really figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of the video.
Other video game concepts that I gave up on included: Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Kart, ToeJam & Earl, Bubble Bobble, and the Touhou inspired Mega Miku.
Probably around 2006 I started working on a Nadia video set to Dead-eye Dick - New Age Girl. It seemed like a pretty solid concept, but I started running out of good clips, and there where parts of the song where I just didn't know what to do. I got the video about 1/3 completed before I stopped. I would kinda like to see what I did on this one, but alas, I've lost the work-in-progress copy that I had.
At this point, I really can't even say that I edit anymore. I've got at least 3 videos that I really wanna make... but, who knows if that will ever happen. I do however, wanna make at least one of them before I stop editing altogether.
















