by SarahtheBoring » Thu Jun 05, 2003 7:42 pm
Wanted to make a Strawberry Eggs AMV - don't have it.
Have an idea for a partly Saiyuki AMV - don't have it, the series is fucking enormous, and it'll be a month of Sundays before I can afford it all.
At any rate, thing is, people make AMVs with what they have. Personally, I am stuck making vids with the same series or two for another year simply because I can't fricking afford to buy the entire run of DVDs for six or seven series. I have rent to pay and my job sucks. Not whining; just explaining. If I could buy up a ton of obscure DVDs and make videos for them, TRUST ME, I would. (I wish I could make vids for Rose of Versailles or Oniisama-E, for one. I've wanted to see both since I heard of them through fandubs and whatnot.)
Anyway, the second part to that is that most people start with what they first see, or the obvious stuff, and work their way up to / into the more obscure stuff. It's a rare fan who has a copy of ObscureAnimeX on DVD, but nothing like Eva or CB or Tenchi. It's just the usual path of things.
So, that's why I think many people have AMVs for common series. It's kind of like an exponential curve, with a few people having nice big ranges of source, and most people having the same dozen titles.
Of course I could be completely talking out of my ass. Your mileage may vary. 8)