madbunny wrote:
It sounds like what you're saying is: "I just threw stuff together and timed it, you're the one that decided it means something"
Actually, somewhere in that rambling of mine, I was saying that I could have done just that and that whomever viewed it places their own meaning upon it... However, I was clear in stating that I edit videos to reflect the emotion that I picked up from the video and music source and that whatever 'story' comes out about it is simply coincidental and is just what the viewer perceives there to be within the context of the sources that were used.
I don't hate people that simply look for that story or theme. I would be lost too if the video I was watching didn't have a focus, but having a focus doesn't necessarily mean that there has to be a story or a theme. It could be a focus on some redundant special effect or anything else, and most videos do focus on some aspect of either the anime source, the music source, or something else entirely. Now that doesn't make the video good or bad, but it certainly does not make something pointless. It may have a stupid point/focus, but it still exists and someone looking for a story within a video and simply stating it pointless for not having a story is completely wrong and simply undermining whatever focus that the editor intended.
Those are the people that I hate. The people that believe that their view on videos are the only views that matter and state their opinion as if they were fact... making themselves look superior by acting as if the editor had the wrong intentions in creating their video and therefore edited a video without substance.
madbunny wrote:Lets face it, most of the music that we use has an internal structure based around some form of storytelling.......
In a sense, you might have felt that you were just sticking pretty pictures in to match the music, but the reality was that it's a lot more than that.
That's most likely true, but when one listens to a song, or at least when I do, I listen to it and perceive it in my own way, pertaining to my life and the events that have shaped me, not the artist that created it. So, whatever storyline, unless direct, is usually lost in the twisted way many artists portray them through the song. Basically, the song takes shape in my mind probably as something else that the artist had intended, the story then changes from person to person... so I usually do not focus on the story, but rather the emotions invoked by the presentation of the song. This is how I treat amvs, how the presentation of both sources are put together. I don't try to retell a story, I simply try to capture the emotions I felt while viewing the source and listening to the song. They then come together in the editing, which may then create a sum greater than its parts, but that doesn't mean it has a story and/or theme at all... it then becomes apparent to me that it is simply up to the viewers to perceive these in however they have been trained to do so.
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