So how do you do it?

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So how do you do it?

Postby Aneino_Kaijin » Thu Jul 25, 2002 6:47 am

I've been told that I need to work on originality. So here's my question to you. How do you make sure your idea is *original*? Do you worry about it?

Also, is there any way to make AVIs that are not enormous (as compared to WMV)? Thanks!
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Postby turboneko » Thu Jul 25, 2002 7:13 am

Hehehe.?? being original is the most difficult process in making an AMV (but generally, anything art-related)?
You should try to watch at thing from different angles, and see if you can drop something in a context completely different from where it belongs. Watch other videos and try to think "How can I possibly improve this?"??? walk out and take inspiration from books, movies, people.
That's how much I can tell you.?? the rest is up to you, it's a tough call but I bet you can do it with some pratice ;)

Btw, to compress your avi files please refer to ErMaC's guide on this same site or read the Unofficial AMV FAQ (link below) :)
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Postby jbone » Thu Jul 25, 2002 8:20 am

"I'm gonna take this song and this anme and make something that R0XX0Rz!!!!!11" = unoriginal product

"Wow, listening to this song, I can so totally see these scenes from that thing I just watched. I could put this there.?? and this would bo so cool when played alongside of that - oh, and that'd be a powerful ending!" = a chance at an original product
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Thu Jul 25, 2002 8:40 am

I don't worry about ideas being original.?? mainly because the ideas I'm coming up with at the moment are just too damn weird for anyone to have thought of them.

As for what you can do to prevent yourself from not making original videos?

Easy - listen to obscure music and watch obscure anime :P
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Postby The Wired Knight » Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:36 pm

Just think about the concept and if anyone else has done anything else like it. Not just music to anime, but style and story and progression and execution. Really, it's not THAT hard to be original if you just try and make your video seem different from what is allready out there.
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Postby Beef » Thu Jul 25, 2002 2:12 pm

Orginality has been something that has been haunting me for a long time, if it isn't a unoriginal anime it is a unoriginal song. I am so close to just completly ignoreing this.


Just think about the concept and if anyone else has done anything else like it. Not just music to anime, but style and story and progression and execution. Really, it's not THAT hard to be original if you just try and make your video seem different from what is allready out there.


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Postby Hitori » Thu Jul 25, 2002 2:56 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Easy - listen to obscure music and watch obscure anime :P
That's considered original!! :lol:

Yes, originality is something that is hard to accomplish. Very hard to accomplish. Just doing something that no one else has done or ever thought of. The viewing public needs something fresh, new, and original. This can be done by watching a whole lot of videos. Watch the best ones to see why they're so good. Watch the worst ones and see why they're so.??? you know.??? Then watch the ones in the middle to see why it wasn't so great. Finally, think about what the videos had in common and put them in catagories. Then work on something different from the norm, something that wasn't done. When you say,"YES!! That hasn't been done before!!! hehhehe" Then you'll more than likely create something original. But hey, I do mine for fun even if they're not original.?? And also, I just started doing this stuff back in January. :roll: The struggle continues!
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Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:13 pm

Originality comes from the voices I hear in my head.???

IF YOU MAKE IT

THEY WILL WATCH

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Postby TobinHood » Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:05 pm

Some people will say you are unoriginal if you use an anime that has been done too many times or a song that has been done too many times, but if you don't really know any other animes besides the really popular ones then there is not much you can do besides watch not so well known ones. However, you can take an overused title and give it an original spin. One example is to make the story being told different from the actual story involved in the anime. Another example would be Tainted Donuts or Dragon Bebop Z. They took overused animes and mixed them together to tell amusing stories. Those are just a couple examples of the many ways to make overused animes original.
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Postby Hitori » Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:11 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Originality comes from the voices I hear in my head.???

IF YOU MAKE IT

THEY WILL WATCH

:shock:
The voices in my head sort of disappeared.??? Man.?? :cry:
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Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:20 pm

leastsuspected wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:Originality comes from the voices I hear in my head.???

IF YOU MAKE IT

THEY WILL WATCH

:shock:
The voices in my head sort of disappeared.??? Man.?? :cry:
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Postby Paul Kievits » Thu Jul 25, 2002 5:31 pm

I would rely on one of three methods:

1. Dance around your room naked chanting voodoo curses.
2. Throw darts at a list of anime/music to pick which to use.
3. Listen to music and visualize every anime you can think of and what you can do with it (or vice versa watch anime and imagine music) now check if it's been done before. Yes? Back to the drawing board. No? There's a potential winner. Now just rememeber everything you planned on doing ??? exagerate (sp?) it to make the video extra memorable.

Needless to say the first two methods might not work for everyone.
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Postby Hitori » Thu Jul 25, 2002 5:47 pm

Castor Troy wrote:*Puts headphones on your head while you sleep and plays "learning spanish 101"*
*Zzzz.???.Hola..Muy..bien.?.Y tu????.zzzZ*

YES!!! They're back.??? but they're speaking spanish for some odd reason.??? :lol:
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Postby ErMaC » Thu Jul 25, 2002 7:08 pm

Actually saying you want to take this song and this anime and make something that kicks ass isn't a terrible place to start - you just can't use it as the basis for your video.

Soul of an Angel started out as "I love this song. I love it so much I want to bear its children. What can I do with it that would blow everything I've done before out of the water?" And so I worked from there to come up with the concept. But in the very beginning it did start out as wanting to make something cool.

You just can't rely on that to make a good video. Like EK said in Failed Experiments, "Oh yea, I guess I need a concept first.??"
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