Which is harder to pull off...

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Postby Brolli411 » Sun Jan 12, 2003 3:24 pm

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Postby Nightowl » Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:34 am

MistyCaldwell wrote:Maybe if he happens across this thread he'll say something.


Wow. I am so late on this thread. See, this is why the vast majority of the AMV community is usually like "who in the hell is this guy?" I'm slow on the uptake in the forums. So, five days after the thread apparently died or moved to another section or something, I say something. Sorry about that.

I just couldn't pass up the chance to talk about Flowers in a public forum. Yeah. I win!

When I did Flowers I did plan out both scene placement and effects meticulously. What became a way to cover up subtitles became a jaunt into the territory one might call artistic interpretation, whatever that means. Yes, there are dramatic elements. And yes, there are comedic elements. And a lot of effects. And some failed lip-syncing. The video wasn't finished and I don't really care to go back to it. It was a week from completion and I wanted to get it shown at Otakon, so I figured, what the hell. People seem to like it sometimes, and I've moved on artistically.

In response to Ashton, the crotch/nipple flowers shot was actually an incredibly difficult decision - utilizing that pushed the video into slapstick for that particular scene rather than just dark comedy. But it got good responses, and eventually, gambitt convinced me to keep it in. I simply thought it would be fun to hop back and forth between dramatic and comedy, thus marking it dramedy, or satire, or... something.

In response to the thread itself, both are difficult. Depending on what you're going for one may be more difficult than the other.

And if you spend enough time making stuff and showing it to people, you can guarantee certain reactions more often than not. After almost ten years of studying audience reactions I feel it's fairly simple to manipulate certain audiences. If Vash is on the screen listening to a walkman doing a silly dance, you always get a reaction in the current climate. But why do that? Audience manipulation is possible, however, it's also pointless, so don't try it. Artistic vision is a far more important endeavor.

Okay, back to work.

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