Song's you'll never hear in an AMV

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Postby RamonesFan2020204 » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:54 pm

Any song could be used in any AMV at any time.
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Postby AMV_4000 » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:59 pm

RamonesFan2020204 wrote:Any song could be used in any AMV at any time.


look who i finally run into....

yeah, me and you can do a vid to any song at anime time... but then again.... no one said it had to be good, right??
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Postby RamonesFan2020204 » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:32 pm

AMV_4000 wrote:
RamonesFan2020204 wrote:Any song could be used in any AMV at any time.


look who i finally run into....

yeah, me and you can do a vid to any song at anime time... but then again.... no one said it had to be good, right??


If you don't want it to be good, then sure.
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Postby Mew Lime » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:37 am

In ANY anime AMV:
The Henry the 8th song. 'Nuff said.
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Postby shumira_chan » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:33 pm

Clearly any and all songs can and will be used in AMVs.

However, what I'd be curious about is whether certain
songs can actually be set to an AMV. In particular I'm
thinking about songs with clear storylines for which
no single anime exists (using more than one anime
would be "cheating", unless massive masking and
compositition is done). It's cheating because if the
song says that a certain character does something
(say, Belldandy), you can't use Ai-chan later on as
the same character just because OMG! doesn't have
the right scene.

For example, take the song
[url=http://canciones.astalaweb.net/CancionesE/M/Mecano--Cruz_de_navajas.txt]
Cruz de Navajas[/url] . It's a 4-minute tale about
infidelity, jealousy and murder (with a twist at the
end). It's a story-driven song which hasn't been
used on the org, and for which I cannot think of any
anime which could be edited in such a way so as
to follow the lyrics.

Are there any good examples on the org of
story/lyrics-driven AMVs? I'm asking for _faithful_
interpretations of what is being sung, not just
the two-or-three matching scenes which AMV
creators claim "tell the story".[/url]
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Postby Iamshadowkiller » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:49 pm

was that a poem?

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Postby RamonesFan2020204 » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:39 pm

Dude, the footage doesn't have to always match the lyrics, but it DOES have to match the feel you're going for.
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Postby shumira_chan » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:19 am

RamonesFan2020204 wrote:Dude, the footage doesn't have to always match the lyrics, but it DOES have to match the feel you're going for.


I agree, but let me explain: I'm not talking about footage
which matches things the lyrics are describing. Indeed, I
find it annoying when an AMV creator digs up a scene of a
rose every time a damn rose is mentioned in the song. I
much prefer clever allegorical symbolism, so if the song
says "rose" the AMV shows a red blood stain or the such
(corny example, but anyway).

What I meant is footage which describes the story which
the lyrics are telling. For example: consider the song
"Don't Stand So Close To Me". It's your basic three act
structure: two main characters are introduced, conflict
arises, tragic resolution in the end. Can an AMV be made
which tells this story faithfully? Matching footage _and_
feeling from beginning to end?

Can someone suggest AMVs (any story-song) which
accomplish this? It's very hard to do well, I think...
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:21 am

I've done it.
Kusoyaro: We don't need a leader. We need to SHUT UP. Make what you want to make, don't make you what you don't want to make. If neither of those applies to you, then you need to SHUT UP MORE.
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Postby shumira_chan » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:47 am

Flint the Dwarf wrote:I've done it.


Link?
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Postby nailz » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:08 pm

Ploink! Magic Cupcake! <a href="http://www.elvenking.net">Elvenking</a>. I'm sorry, I can't hear you over how awesome I am.
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Postby requiett » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:03 pm

shumira_chan wrote:Can someone suggest AMVs (any story-song) which
accomplish this? It's very hard to do well, I think...

I just did.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=132142
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Postby shumira_chan » Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:46 pm

OK, I've downloaded a couple of your vids, watched them a
few times...

nailz, I got your Nightwish AMV. It's ambitious, no doubt
about that. The song has nice imagery and there's a good
match between the lyrics and the scenes you chose. Both
the music and the anime have that "epic" feeling, it's
a good selection. A bit long for my taste, though, but then
again audio editing is a cop-out :)

That said, I failed to see a story develop. It's not that you
cannot make a story with that song, it's just that the song
itself doesn't tell one (perhaps only in the most vague
terms, i.e. love and death?)

requiett: I liked your AMV a lot, and the song is great (will
have to get that Muse CD... reminds me of early 80s U2).
It's very well edited, even if 2/3rds into it you start showing
space battles just because the song speeds up (the song
talks about hope, expectations, black holes and
revelations... but no mention of mecha fighting in outer
space).

It's a cool song, and yes, thematically it's a great match with
Voices of a Distant Star, but again, it does not tell a story.
It's a love song and you chose to interpret "starlight"
and "black hole" literally. The feelings within the song
are mirrored by the anime and so you managed to make
a coherent, harmonious AMV.

But... it's a love song about feelings, not a story about love.
It is not what I was asking about.

Here's another example of what I'm looking for:

Island of Souls

Again, this song tells a clear-cut story, no need for
fancy allegories or clever interpretations (yes, there's
also social commentary, but I'm looking at it in the most
obvious way). Interestingly, this song hasn't been used
for an AMV as far as I can tell.

As I said before, I'm not saying AMVs have (or even should)
be made this way, but someone must have challenged his
or herself this way, yes? It's hard because songs which
tell actual stories do so based on real-life events, so
no aliens, space-battling mecha, magical elves, or
naughty tentacles (essentially ruling out 90% of all anime).

Someone? Anybody?
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Postby ZeroEffect29 » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:35 pm

music i never want used in any AMV is christian rock or whatever crap music group they show on TBN. those TBN televangelists give me creeps, especially that big haired woman who looks like a cross between anna nicole and the predator. Ugggghhhhhh...
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Postby thehunterscorpion » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:12 am

Good man that's the work

youtube.com I think very good good site
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