dschlag007 wrote:However Anamorphic Productions made a very good edited video (technically well edited) which apperently had a story behind it, however if you hadn't seen the series, you were lost on the story and thus it appeared to be random images with music.
I have to disagree (no offense to Anamorphic Productions as I have not seen the video in question). If the general audience can't grasp the story you're trying to tell in a video, without seeing the source material then you have not edited it well enough. Good storytelling through editing means that you are able to present the emotions and events through your choice of edits regardless of whether or not the viewer is familiar with the source.
dschlag007 wrote:So basically, the point to my "rant" and long speech is it doesn't matter about the popularity of the song as long as the video is well made to the song and they both fit together.
Actually, I think this is somewhat untrue. To get the most acceptance out of the general public, you have to shoot for the lowest common denominator. An easy way of achieving this is by using popular music/footage because the audience has a higher chance of recognizing/sympathizing with things they are familiar with. If a video has a song that you like, you may be more forgiving of the video's faults since you are grooving to the music. If it is a popular song, the chance that there are people in the audience that enjoy that song is that much higher. If you choose an anime and your video is telling a story that fits the personalities established by the show for those characters, then people who have seen the show will have a preconceived notion of what to expect and, if that is the sort of thing they like, then they will most likely enjoy the video as well.
Of course, popularity is a double-edged sword. A song could be infamously bad and, even if your video is otherwise excellent, people may be turned off simply by the song choice. Or if you are trying to put characters in situations that they never would have gotten into in their respective series, it may piss off purist fans of those shows because you are presenting them in a different light.
So I wouldn't say that picking a popular song/anime makes no difference. Although a well-edited video with a song and footage that blend well with each other will probably always be recognized as a good video, I don't doubt that a lesser video using a popular song/anime/both could overshadow it.
However, if you have an idea and feel strongly about it, you should use whatever song/anime makes the most sense for you, regardless of the popularity of the sources you choose. Why? Because for the most part, people will put more effort into things that they themselves enjoy rather than things that they force themselves to do.