Motivation

LightningCountX · Post by **LightningCountX** » Fri May 07, 2004 7:27 am

I hope you get your will to make amv's back, im slowly gaining mine. I was on the verge of quiting cause everytime i edited the video looked like trash. Right now i do have motivation to work on my videos. But good luck to you.

btw...

I feel bad for you Paulo, your such a great editor but you never have time to make videos cause you are part of Japan's workforce. That sucks =\

hopefully you'll get some breaks from work, and we can chat on aim like old times

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Fri May 07, 2004 11:46 am

Otohiko wrote:
)v(ajin Koji wrote:
RiderX wrote:oh i was born in london, ontario
I can't begin to say how wrong that is...
Naw, come on, nothing wrong with that.

They even have their own little Thames. True story

Oh...dear.

Anyway...Could anyone give an example of a vid that was created competitivly and one that wasn't so wqe could have a looksie and see if it really does motivate people more?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Fri May 07, 2004 12:12 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:Anyway...Could anyone give an example of a vid that was created competitivly and one that wasn't so wqe could have a looksie and see if it really does motivate people more?

I can't say 'competitively', but I can give you examples of vids I made for myself, and ones I did for a target audience. That won't tell you which one motivates people more, though, just give you vids so you can decide which turn out better - the self-made ones, or the ones done for others (the masses). I don't think one or the other motivates more people. I think a person has something that motivates him, and that one thing motivates him more than anything else will. For example, the people who said they do it for attention (wanting praise, wanting to compete and be seen as better than others) - they do it because that attention motivates them. For those people, making a vid for yourself is probably strange sounding.

For people like me or Paulo, or Sarah, the idea of spending that much time for someone else probably sounds crazy. I mean, chances are it won't even work. And even if it does work, that rush won't last forever - eventually you'll be left sitting back looking at that thing that people liked, but which only served for a short bit of attention before people go on their separate ways. If you'd made something for yourself instead, you could have had something you would enjoy long after the masses get bored with you. And anyone who spends more than 15hrs on a vid would probably agree that it's a lot of time to waste on other people if you aren't pleasing yourself in the process.

I've done one vid that was aimed at someone different from myself, and I still don't like that video. Oh, it served its purpose at the time, and got praise from the person I was trying to impress, but so what? I don't like that video. I want my time back. I could have spent that time making something *I* like instead, who cares if it impressed anyone else. I think this is what Otohiko meant by being selfish. My time is very important to me - very. I don't like to do things that I don't enjoy, and when I edit, I'm doing it on my own time - my own free time. I'll work for other people if it's a job and I get paid for it, but I'm not going to sacrifice my free time for something that I get nothing in return for. So long as I make vids for me, I get something - I get the fun of editing (unlike some, Omni for instance, I *do* like the little tedious business of editing, making cuts, looking at the time markers - all but the rendering since that's just boring waiting). And I get the fun of watching the finished project. A finished project can keep me happy and occupied for days - that's more than I can say for any video I've watched that was made by someone else. There were a few when I first started that I got addicted to, but I could never watch them the way I watch my own - because they aren't mine. There's no rush, no little 'DIC' caption of "I made this."

If I'm out to impress anyone, it's me. And since it doesn't take much to please me, I'm left pretty satisfied. ^_^ If it were any other way, I wouldn't bother editing.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri May 07, 2004 1:59 pm

Good points Ari.

I can't really give an example of a video that was made competitively, because I don't claim to be psychic

So I really don't know what people are thinking.

I think people's 'con videos', videos they made specifically for a contest, are probably the best example of that, but I don't want to single anyone out at the risk of being wrong...

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As for me - I actually hate editing, just as I do most things technical in general. But I guess the motivation to see a video I imagined come to life is just too strong to resist.