Re: The Shinji Red Suit Dress-Up Award (Best Parody Video)
Strictly speaking, a parody is a creative work that imitates certain aspects of a different creative work, for comedic effect. Not to be confused with satire, which is a more general term for a creative work designed to reveal (usually unflattering) aspects of a person, institution, abstract concept etc.
IMO, All Hell Lelouch is satire, not parody. It satirizes Lelouch by highlighting unflattering aspects of his personality. To parody Lelouch, you would have to create your own original anime character with Lelouch-like characteristics, and do something with that.
The South Park Movie (and its soundtrack) is a parody of Broadway musicals in general (new creative work which imitates a different creative work). It is also a satire of American society and foreign policy. Does the fact that the source audio is a parody make the AMV a parody? I don't know. The Exploder Evacuator source audio was parody.
Friend Request, Darkest of Places - funny yes, satire maybe, parody no.
Every Anime Opening comes pretty close - it's blindingly obvious what it's parodying, and it gets the point across while making you laugh. The problem is that for parodies, it is unusual to actually use the source material that you are parodying. That's like trying to parody House, MD by putting together a montage of funny House, MD clips. The only true way to parody anime OPs would be to make one from scratch that contained recognizable elements of existing OPs. The Kujibiki Unbalance OP is a good example.
You can take this analysis with a grain of salt, because I obviously have a vested interest in discrediting all the videos but mine, bwah hah hah. For the record, I think all of the finalists in this category are fantastic and made me laugh my ass off.
IMO, All Hell Lelouch is satire, not parody. It satirizes Lelouch by highlighting unflattering aspects of his personality. To parody Lelouch, you would have to create your own original anime character with Lelouch-like characteristics, and do something with that.
The South Park Movie (and its soundtrack) is a parody of Broadway musicals in general (new creative work which imitates a different creative work). It is also a satire of American society and foreign policy. Does the fact that the source audio is a parody make the AMV a parody? I don't know. The Exploder Evacuator source audio was parody.
Friend Request, Darkest of Places - funny yes, satire maybe, parody no.
Every Anime Opening comes pretty close - it's blindingly obvious what it's parodying, and it gets the point across while making you laugh. The problem is that for parodies, it is unusual to actually use the source material that you are parodying. That's like trying to parody House, MD by putting together a montage of funny House, MD clips. The only true way to parody anime OPs would be to make one from scratch that contained recognizable elements of existing OPs. The Kujibiki Unbalance OP is a good example.
You can take this analysis with a grain of salt, because I obviously have a vested interest in discrediting all the videos but mine, bwah hah hah. For the record, I think all of the finalists in this category are fantastic and made me laugh my ass off.