I am an adamant believer that comedy will come with time and intent when you don't try to force it. This year, every one of us was focussed on other things, sadly, so we understandably lacked collective focus and have weak points that will hurt us a bit because of it. Like the credits and the slow start. I was focussed on survival, and didn't get to some of the clips I really wanted to do, however my career restarted again, and quite frankly I want to make my money animating, so that took precedence ^^ If I'm not mistaken, Miko got married, and of course that takes distraction to a whole new level for a hobby project like this. I'm sure everyone else had certain things come up that stopped focus as well.
Basically, as long as we have intent, then we'll have the things come to us with time. Geico Money proved that well I think (I keep using it because I think we all know how it ended up being more brilliant than either of us imagined). I believe that Energizer Bunny, while a fine idea, didn't come to fruition because it really didn't offer much with the current existing footage, but it did get us rolling in the right direction. Fluffy and explosions ended up working well in a spiraling inward on one another, and then that wonderful FMA final clip came from the conversations and brought it together. In fact happily proving me wrong that two running gags wouldn't work. However it was because they weren't forced.
That said, I believe a theme can and should act as a guide. If you say 'what about children's shows' and someone gets inspired, that's what should be happening. If you say 'only children's shows' then it's like the creator's mind is a child and the parent is saying 'don't take the chocolate chip cookie.' It doesn't work. If this project were a specific context and not disjointed clips, it would be different and our minds would adapt accordingly (like how mine has to for the parody I want to make), but I don't do AMVS to feel limited, I do it to be insane and take an audience with me
A lesson I am more and more happy I learned the more I keep trying to write this script.








