All right guys, I need your help to narrow down some ideas I have for the intro. Usually I'd like it to be a surprise, but I don't have as much time as I used to anymore, and I want to use it wisely, so I need to ask you all what you think of a couple ideas I have for the intro.
FIRST IDEAFirst idea I have is to do something which emulates AMV Hell 3's intro. When I came up with it, I didn't remember it had an intro like this, but I wanted to do a Star Wars intro with AMV Salad 5 as the title. But then as the Star Wars style logo goes through, a space ship or gundam or something will fly through and take it out, along with the music. Then the Great Will of the Macrocosm from Excel Saga will come through and the intro will pick up at the rolling credits into the background. It'll say "Episode 5: Happy Meal" then some text will roll for a few seconds. Then I want to cut in the dialogue from Space Balls with Helmet and Sanders "That's much too early, PREPARE TO FAST FORWARD!" "Prepare to fast forward!" "FAST FORWARD!" "Fast forwarding sir!" and then do a spoof of the fast forward portion with anime characters with a bunch of ridiculous stuff happening to a certain character who says the lines. I was considering using the King from Ouron, he's just the first one to come to mind. If anyone has another series they know of that would be fun to spoof characters doing the 'fast forward' lines, please let me know. And also it'd help if they are in a Gundam anime or something. I haven't seen any Gundam after Wing, so someone else would know. One other thought is to integrate Haruhi again, with them playing the computer game, where it'd fit that Kyon would go "In fact never play this again!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHGSXmO ... re=relatedThe scene begins at exactly 1 minute and goes for 30 seconds in case you haven't seen it.
SECOND IDEAThis idea is something I came up with recently. I think it's a more epic intro, I love the music which is what gave me this idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mxHe8T_QVAThis person combined two Dr. Who intros into a rather excellent rendition. It gets me pumped when I hear it. My intention is to take Lelouche from Code Geass, and have him do a Geass on Suzaku, and as soon as that little bird portion of the Geass comes out, start this song. Then have a bunch of wormholes happening. I wanted to see if I could edit together the portions of the wormhole from the Dr. Who intro with fades, but there's only a few seconds at best that are clear enough to do that. I can try and make it myself, but I don't think I have time. One other idea was to try and get a bunch of different wormholes together, like parodying multiple things. Like Dr. Who, then the Stargate, then a couple others, I don't know any more off the top of my head, if you know any, please tell me.
All through this, I was going to find anime characters that could go into the distance and mask them in flying through the wormhole, and adapt the 3D intro I did last year so that AMV Salad 5 could be displayed in the wormhole, either like the Dr. Who title, or just have it fly in with the percussive drum beats. I was also going to do things like have the R-wings from Starfox fly through and such. Little jokes.
THIRD IDEAThis idea was kind of where I started and the first idea kind of formed from it. I was going to start with the Geico Money with the Hypnotoad eyes, have it cut out to show Haruhi watching it on the screen, then have her shut it off and have another Harvey Birdman scene to briefly introduce AMVS5. Problem is I don't know what dialogue I can assemble that would work, but I haven't really tried. Unlike last time I don't have certain dialogue in mind that would work. This idea offers connective tissue to the end of AMVS4, which is why I like it, but I won't be able to tell if I can make it amusing until I listen to Harvey Birdman a bit more. I was then going to have Haruhi introduce the movie and then cut to the Star Wars style intro. So this is kind of a third idea, but kind of just another adaptation of it. If I could get Phil Ken Sebben's dialogue to work again, I'd like to try this one, but I wanted everyone's impressions.
FOURTH IDEAThe emperor from Code Geass singing "Good Morning USA" from American Dad. Basically just Code Geass footage used ironically with him bellowing happily and finishing with 'AMV Salad 5: Happy Meal' at the end of it. Much faster as an intro. I was going to use this as a clip either way, but it also works to a degree for a fast intro with the trumpets to draw attention. Not quite as creative as the previous ones in my opinion, but a lot less work.
Those are the ideas I have.
I would like some input and if ANYONE has any additions or adjustments or whatever they can see with these ideas, plus I could use some help if possible, especially footage that fits the ideas, such as characters going into the distrance for idea 2, or wormholes for that matter.