is Pre plan and scene selection a waste of time??

celibi87 · Post by **celibi87** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:59 pm

From the animes i have done (which probably wont help you much coming from me), i have sat down and watched the dvd's i was planning on using and when i saw a part i thought would work i would pause the dvd and write down the time and exactly what part it was. Though with the song and anime im using now its almost impossible to make the amv not what i origonally meant it to be. So choosing the right anime and the right song are important. I see promise in the anime i chose but there arent any scenes to go with the song i wanted to go with it. Thats why i havent even gotten past the 15% mark as of yet. Storyboarding seems like a waste of time but actually sitting down before you start to edit saves a lot of going through raw footage to find the right scene.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:09 am

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:57 pm

Pre-planning and scene selection aren't a waste of time at all, but it's quite easy to waste the time you spend doing it. How much footage are you going over during that 80% of the time?

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:00 am

Just hit the shuffle button and click render... it'd be no more random than many of the videos around here anyway

Seriously, it's not a waste... but for your case, maybe the problem to begin with was a lack of the anime itself. See, I think I spend quite a lot of time in scene selection, and it's takes more time the less I remember (or the longer) an anime. If you knew your anime, it would certainly lessen the time spent going back and forth over the same pages.

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:15 pm

Not if it's a project you think would require you to spend the time to plan it out. I would imagine it'd require that kind of mindset if the video were more story-based, but that's not always the case. I have a project I know I won't get to for a long time, so I've written a "script" of what I want to put at certain parts of the song. This is mainly so I can remember the ideas I've had for this particular project.