How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

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How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Vivaldi » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:34 pm

I've been curious, I know that for myself, I either keep a few specific points in my mind, or just improvise after I start. The only thing I know being what type of amv I wish make. I would expect this, or some variation thereof is common for quite a lot of people. What I'm more interested in is those of you who make extensively pre-conceptualized amvs, with immaculate attention to detail. I can only assume these have at the very least phrase by phrase planning. Do you make a traditional storyboard? Do you have a written system? Do you store it all in your massive brain? Come and tell.

Of course, I'd also like everybody to share their methods. Even if the extent of your planning is anime+song, feel free to pipe in.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby AaronAMV » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:45 pm

Yeah, I tend to improvise, but keep certain points in my mind... I'll find clips that match the part of the song I'm working with while I'm editing. If I find a clip that matches more, I'll change it.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby hasteroth » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:40 pm

I'll go through the source looking for clips that would work, I right them down.

I don't plan it out 100% most of it is improvised. I just try to make it easier to find stuff that I'd like to use.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Panky » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:43 pm

I do not usually plan on what I'm going to do in an AMV. I have noticed that I did just the same when I wrote stories for the school, the start, and the end, but the middle :nono:. I believe the most important thing is to know how to start it and how to end it. Though, it's way much better to plan at least something, because else you'll either don't know what to do in some point, or your video (just like it can happen with a written story) will turn pointless.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Knowname » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:29 pm

yeah most of us are probly doing it wrong and improvising lol. I know that's what I do :). But I keep thinking I should plot it out some day that way I'd stay in one idea (not that I tend to flounder anyway... by this point), but I'm just too lazy.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby hasteroth » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:52 pm

Well I improvise it. But I go through it countless times and changing things. It feels like the first beta is planning, and the next beta is the real beta.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Knowname » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:04 pm

yeah you can do it that way and just say the first beta is like your storyboard. That's how I usually do it... but as far as writing anything down I don't do that lol. Cuz out of like 30 projects the final is rarely very different from the betas at all. so yeah after the first beta it's 'storyboarded' I can agree with that!
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Vivaldi » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:39 pm

I'm talking more about what happens before you even rip the source. I for one can't keep a detailed plan in mind for the amount of time it takes to rip.


Anyway, I guess I was right about that particular method being very common. :roll:
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Kevmaster » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:41 pm

I go with the flow.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Kariudo » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:47 pm

I usually have 1 part of the song that I know exactly what I want to put there (from whatever series I use. On a related note, I pick the anime after I pick the song).

From that, I have a rough idea of what I want the story to be. Then rip, clip, edit some, clip some more, edit more, etc... until finished
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby mirkosp » Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:01 pm

As Kariudo, I only pick my source after I hear the song and have the video in mind. If I can't envision at least a good half of the song, I won't even bother trying to do it. >_>
Anyways, after that, I try to plan the whole song in my mind, but the only video that required me to extensively plan the scenes was cookies... for that one, first I knew exactly which scenes I wanted and had scene selection in mind. After that, I'd go hunt down the scenes while watching the anime, checking if different scenes would eventually work better, or if scenes I seemed to remember actually existed and weren't just my imagination. I then wrote the timestamps of the scenes on a block notes with the lines of the song I wanted to set them to, and just clipped in virtualdub to later put them in premiere. This, though, I did only once I reached perhaps one third of the timeline done. I originally were clipping straight in premiere with the episodes imported in avs... when editing became too slow, lagarith clips became the only solution to make it doable (I was still on a 1.7ghz single core... it wasn't nice to edit on that one...).
For the other videos, while I always had the timeline more or less in mind before editing, I never had to write down the timestamps.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Pas » Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:07 pm

Firstly I get a brief from my client. I then set about researching the subject in all it's various forms and media. When I have completed a sufficient amount of research I move onto concepts, testing out how many alternative routes I could take. At the same time I continue with research. Once I have a good deal of concepts I pick out the 3 I think would work best and begin developing them. In the development process I begin culling down the options until I'm left with just one, which I proceed to polish and send to my peers for feedback and suggestions. When I have finally exhausted all possible options I add the final touches and it becomes the finished product.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:02 pm

Timestamped notes in a txt file is about as detailed as I get. They tend to run the gambit in detail based on what i feel is needed to jog my memory if I have to put the thing down for a while.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby Athena » Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:06 pm

I rarely storyboard physically, but I always storyboard in my mind. Which can be troublesome, based on the fact I sometimes storyboard that which doesn't exist in the source. I have to pick alternate scenes or rotoscope.
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Re: How do you storyboad\plan your amvs?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:45 pm

I plan the final scene.


Then create the rest of the video so it leads up to that.
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