I made 19 AMVs between 2003 and 2007, all realistically
pretty average, but which I personally still like. It
started with a
Perfect Blue AMV set to a rare cover of
"Voices Carry" (a song which still isn't listed in the
catalogue, curiously enough).
A few unremarkable (even to me

) AMVs later came "Time
After Time" set to
Millennium Actress, the first AMV I
ever submitted to a con. I was told later that during
the show there was a technical glitch and only the
first few seconds were seen.
After that came "Feeling This" set to
End of Summer. It
was a precursor to the idea that romantic AMVs could be
sexually explicit, but I didn't really develop that
motif until later on.
A couple of AMVs later came
Tokyo Godfathers set to
"Go", which I think was the first video with that
anime.
Sometime later I toyed with the idea of an April Fool's
joke: what if the first AMV ever made had been
discovered on some old VHS tape? The result was a
Candy
Candy AMV set to "More Than A Feeling", made with
simple cuts, which could have concievably been edited
in 1976 as both song and anime became popular that
year. I never went through with the prank.
I started to attempt more visual effects, and failed
miserably. In spite of that, I still enjoy an AMV I
made of
Omohide Poro Poro set to a very rare (but
amazing) song called "These Are Our Finest Days".
Using the original a-ha music video as a guide, I set
"Take On Me" to
Video Girl Ai. It was my first and only
AMV to incorporate manga scans.
I gave up on effects. I later made an
Air AMV to a
Spanish song called "Puedes Contar Conmigo". Around
that time I saw Worlds Unbroken by Sierra Lorna and
realized I was wasting my time. I stopped editing for a
while, until someone somehow tracked me down to ask for
a copy (I always submitted my AMVs anonymously to
cons). It was my single happiest moment as an AMV editor.
Realizing that effects would never be my forte, I
focused on more dense storylines. Hajimete was a
romantic, sexually explicit AMV which used
End of
Summer and the song "White Houses". Since by this time
anonymous submissions were hardly ever allowed so I used a
pseudonym, and actually won a few contests (which gave
prizes I never accepted). My ruse was discovered after
the Anime North contest and I was disqualified from my
third-place position.
In keeping with the emphasis on storylines, I then
decided to make my AMVs even simpler. I set the nearly
5 minutes of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" to 77
frames of
Koi Kaze.
My last and final AMV is a single frame of
Millennium
Actress set to the 47 chords of "Chiyoko's Theme Mode
3". It was shown at Anime North (no longer under
pretense), and pretty much ignored. Few would agree
with me, but I consider this AMV as leaving on a high
note.