Need Help for an paper on Kevin Caldwell !

[outlawed]

Doing a paper just on Kevin I think is wrong imho and really you should take a look at him as well as a lot of other great creators from the late 80s / early 90s. I have a special place in my heart for that time as that really propelled AMVs into what it is today in my humble opinion and it wasn't all on the back of Kevin Caldwell.

Hi Joe! Awesome point. I never really was involved in those earlier days. In terms of influence it was really these people who shaped the upcoming group that would get known thanks to the Internet.

One reason I mentioned Duane Johnson is that he often isn't cited when he really is hugely influential in a specific time period for several reasons. 1) Particle man. There were people who didn't know about anime or AMVs but thanks to the automagic file propogation powers of the internet this video was exposed to a lot of people. And that was with modems too back in those days! 2) Duane went on to run several AMV contests. There probably were people before him that did this but he is one of the ones I remember because of the time period I became involved.

like when I saw his EVA (classical)

That was always a favorite video of Kevin's that I liked. Awesome mood with great scene buildup. One of the common failures people have with using AMVs and orchestrated stuff is dealing with the rise & fall of the piece. It's not really enough to just go ballistic when the percussion section goes off and say hey look I have synch. Breakdowns in scene selection usually become far more noticeable with complex stuff like orchestrated themes, overtures, and symphonies.

The music in that video is not really "classical" in the true sense as it's a Gregorian chant (Media Vita in Morte Sumus) arranged by John Barry for the film The Lion in Winter. Then again not that many people know the difference between Renaissance/Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern. It's not like usually they teach western music history in most schools until you take a course at the University level. This is called getting off track and potentially starting arguments. But that's OK because I'm just trying to revive the style of "ye Olde AMV ML" ^_^

[Kitsuner]

One reason I mentioned Duane Johnson is that he often isn't cited when he really is hugely influential in a specific time period for several reasons. 1) Particle man. There were people who didn't know about anime or AMVs but thanks to the automagic file propogation powers of the internet this video was exposed to a lot of people. And that was with modems too back in those days! 2) Duane went on to run several AMV contests. There probably were people before him that did this but he is one of the ones I remember because of the time period I became involved.

Not to mention the fact that he might be president in four years!