Creator Name: Warlike Swans, CMN
Date Completed: 9/5/2011
[Visual Effects]1. Seizure-inducing strobes/dips to color
2. Purposelessly fast edits
3. Heavy effects that obscure the video.
4. Only lips sync-ing over still images.
5. Videos that look like samples for all the transitions/effects the editing program came with.
[Style / Genre]1. Drama -context = Bullshit
2. Action- other elements= Generic
3. Romance that is merely a random compliation of tropes (holding hands, tears, hugs, beaches)
4. Convention videos that rely on the audience already knowing the anime for context.
5. All of the categorical elements coming from the song rather than the editing.
[Anime / Visual Source]1. Mixed up casting; When one character is linked to a voice as 1st person, and then the voice seems to be 1st person for someone else, especially if lip synced.
2. Various sources/various couples in a romance vid if the song is personal or definately about 1 couple.
3. Irrelevent artifacts; subtitles from the anime source, watermarks, timestamps.
4. Interlacing.
5. Lack of color correction especially with very dark scenes.
[Additional Grievances]1. Writing fake subtitles for Japanese audio, especially when super basic words are false-subbed.
2. Videos that are longer than they should be because the editor feared cutting the audio. (So many AMVs that would be strong at 3 minutes get weak by 5.)
3. Long intros/production tags.
4. Videos that force jarring occipital movement over and over again.
5. Foriegn language songs not subbed when the lyrics seem relevent, especially when there's a target audience (like a convention) that won't understand the words.
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Hagaren Viper wrote:[Style / Genre]
4. "It's funny because they are/aren't gay" - at least when that's all there is to the concept.
Can be disquieting as well as a comedic miss.