PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:(No offense intended towards God or religion. Deal with it.)
1) Thou shall not take any aspect ratio except one aspect ratio.
Don't intermix full screen video with letterboxed video. Changes
between the two are distracting for the audience. You want your video
to look like one complete product, but intermixing the two aspect ratios
works against that.
PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:2) Thou shall make no image with subtitles.
Subtitles are bad. Don't do it. Text distracts the audience. They'll
be too busy reading to pay attention to the video. This also applies to
the logos that networks stick in the bottom-right corner.
PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:3) Thou shall not let characters talk in vain.
Avoid having characters talking in the video (unless their lips are
synchronized with the lyrics.) If characters are talking while you
can't hear what they're saying, the audience is left wondering what
they're missing.
PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:4) Thou shall honor thy fellow creators.
Don't take anime footage from other videos. If you actually want to
make a good video, you'll need to do it right and record your own source
footage. Go buy the DVDs.
PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:5) Thou shall not steal.
Yeah, Napster might be fun, but if you're going to use a song in a
video, go out and buy the CD. MP3s aren't the same quality anyway.
Plus, you'll get a warm, fuzzy feeling for supporting the music artists.
PatrickD's Ten Commandments of Anime Music Video wrote:6) Thou shall not let video static lie.
If you're recording from VHS, put a mask over that video static in the
bottom few lines of the screen. Seeing that hop all over the place
while the video plays is distracting...and it looks bad too.
8) Thou shall not use footage more than once.
Avoid using the same video clip more than once. It shows that you
either have a very short memory or you didn't capture enough source
footage. If it's a humor bit, keep in mind that there's a reason
comedians never tell the same joke to the same audience twice.
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