by Arigatomina » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:31 am
It *could* go here, if you look at it the right way - instead of asking about an amv idea, he's discouraging a whole mess of ideas based on the genre - that has to do with amvs, and it's definitely a suggestion (sounds more like an order). And my answer:
Never!!!!
Heh, never give up, never surrender. I don't stop anything unless it's against the rules, and so far there's no rule against crappy amvs, or overdone anime amvs, or anything of the sort. Not that I'd make very many dbz vids (I only did one, so there!), but there's something to say for them. And this has been discussed all over the place (I've been here only a few months, but I've already seen it run to the ground) - but I didn't give my piece, so here goes - the benefits of dbz 'first' vids:
Reviewing - it's easy to compare them to all the others, easy to give pointers about commonly done mistakes and general editing. For someone who's not an expert, I can still take a newbie dbz vid and point out all sorts of things that, if applied, can be very helpful to future projects. DBZ is accessible, so it's easier for new amv makers to get criticism by using an anime everybody knows and has seen vids for (not like me - I started with a mess of Yu Yu Hakusho, and they were as bad editing-wise as any of the over-done dbz, but not enough people had seen the show to tell me point-blank what needed to be done, with dbz it's easier). And once a new person comes in with a dbz, or a mess of them, they can get a quick lecture on over-used animes - making them stretch their imaginations to find new stories in the anime if they're that big of fans for the show.
As for telling people what to make and what not to make - don't like it, don't watch it. If no one downloaded or watched the dbz vids, people wouldn't have much reason to make them except for personal enjoyment, and that's their right if they enjoy poorly made or overdone amvs.
'nough said? I think so. 8)