by DriftRoot » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:24 am
Aside from the oft-used reply of "lots", a few of mine have a little history:
Portrait of the Addict: My first full-blown attempt at making an AMV resulted in, among other things, a near-nervous breakdown as I tried to figure out the technical aspects of AMVing, the purchase of the entire Saiyuki series, multiple hard drive failures and well over one hundred hours struggling with approximately 15 seconds of footage. Today, Portrait of the Addict remains an attractive AMV concept (I still have all the clips I ripped because I learned to back everything up on disc, lest one's hard drive die), one that I'm inevitably asked about when the conversation turns to AMV amongst my friends, but it's just got sooo much baggage... Plus, in the six - seven? years since I conceived it, other people have gone on to exploit a similar concept with huge success, so I feel I'd be viewed as extremely late to the supper table if I pursued it.
In the Key of V: Not sure if this makes me seem very creative and smart or just incapable of doing my homework, but I got the idea to create an AMV entirely out of still images (from animated footage, no less) before I knew what a MAD was. Talk about taking the wind out of MY sails. This idea was partially born out of the above trainwreck, when it looked like my computer couldn't handle video editing unless I worked with still images.
XII: I've attempted this AMV twice and am hunkering down for a third go-round. This means obtaining Netflix footage for the third time, ripping the entire series for the third time and creating custom (and time-consuming) artwork for the third time, since I destroyed all materials from previous attempts in fits of rage/as a warning to myself never to attempt this video again. This time it's do or die, though. If I don't give it everything I've got, I think I'm going to regret it...and I hate that feeling.
Untitled: Ripped and clipped the first season of MOHS four times for this, the second season once, got key scenes on the timeline and liked them...then abandoned it over and over when I got distracted with other projects or didn't like the direction it was heading, deleted all materials, etc. Clearly I love wasting my time. I think I just love prepping footage from this series, it's got so many great scenes that can be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes.
The trend here is that I get so in love with ideas that I'm willing to pursue them fanatically...only to abandon it all when the unpleasant truth that AMV creation involves a lot of compromise rears its ugly head. I'm a creative control freak.