DJ_Izumi wrote:Castor Troy wrote:Actually Kit, being an editor is also being all of the above things. Editing amvs already makes you a producer, writer, and director aside from being an editor.

I'd have to largely disagree with this. A producer mostly handles preproduction, budgets, arrangement of actors, sets, hireing, making sure the script gets done and finalized, even hireing the director. Most elements of pre-production, which is what a producer's primary job is, doesn't exist in AMVs.
I also wouldn't call it writing. The song already has a story and the AMV itself also already has a story, you're just artfully arranging it. It's editing, which can be very artful, but it's not writing, everything's been written for you. The same goes for calling it directing. You arn't involved in the create of the visuals at all, they've been made for you.
AMV's are editing and just editing I think.
I disagree with your disagreement. I've outlined quite a lot of this in my
So you want to be a "Professional Editor"? Read this first thread I wrote a year and a half ago.
Any type of editing, regardless of it being amvs, film, commercials, etc requires a dedicated amount of creative input and absolutely is more than "just cutting the clips". Editors are absolutely the directors in the post production phase of any video related projects because they *still* have to choose the best looking performances, angles, etc just like a director has to.
Yes, while producers handle everything you mentioned above, they are also responsible for
green lighting ideas to go into production. Since amv editors already green light their own ideas, that makes them producers.
Regarding writing, while many vocal songs tell their own stories, there's also instrumental/foreign/etc songs that don't rely on lyrics which require editors to tell their own stories. However, editors still have to come up with a concept to tell their own stories regardless and even though it's not written in a script, it's still a "concept" and coming up with concepts are still a form of "writing" in a way.
But amv editors aren't cinematographers, on-screen actors (this can be changed

), gaffers, grips, etc.
There's an old saying that goes "You're already a filmmaker the moment you decide to make films, even if you haven't made one yet. Don't
think of being a filmmaker, you
are one already".
There you have it. AMV editors are still everything I've mentioned above in some capacity. While not as intense as a real production, they still wear all those hats in some form or another.
I know you're in the "Hey, I make *real* stuff and doing everything other than editing is cool!" phase, but try to give a little more credit for amv editors as well.