Year of Slump

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 6:06 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:I never once specified that technical expertise was a prerequisite to great amv making.

I don't consider them to be necessary. A lot of people love doing them now and that's great, thing is "effects" easily impress a crowd now and it's rather annoying in my opionion. If you do an effect right you could probably create a really crappy AMV but if the effect is correct you could probably get a very good crowd response. I'm with Hsein (as he said in another thread) and prefer to stick with straight cuts, I don't like doing fancy things especially. And there are plenty of newer videos out there that don't use them either.

Darkseid · Post by **Darkseid** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 11:53 am

Hmm... I was thinking about some things when I read through this topc and happened to see the comments William and EK left about my Cobra vid. Needless to say I was honored and humbled to see this. I'll have further comments when I get through with my journal post.

As to this being the year of the slump.. I'm sorry, but I do not see this at all. There were many excellent videos present for AWA's contests (that I got to see at Quu's place) and several others that I found quite enjoyable before that con (The Gundam 08th Team "Shell Shock" and Urusei Yatsura "It Wasn't Me" vids, though enormously different methods, really stuck in my head.)

I had the opportunity to enter into this subculture via the school equipment available to me and was happy to contribute to it in a small way. I hope others continue to do the same and learn from each other.

Hmm... starting to turn into a speech. Better do my journal really quick where it's better to expand longer thoughts....

jescaflowne · Post by **jescaflowne** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:53 pm

paizuri wrote:I'm not sure if we're seeing universally decent videos so much as mediocre videos. I don't know about you all, but I think a good music video.... The bottom line is: if you're not sure what exactly you're trying to do with your video, you may very well end up with a mediocre video.

Woe! A serious post on AMV's from paizuri... what is the world coming to?

I'm not good at speeches so i'll just say I agree that there were some kickin' vids as AWA this year. Hooray for editing! Hooray for anime!

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:21 am

jescaflowne wrote:Woe! A serious post on AMV's from paizuri... what is the world coming to?

Yes, run for the hills and hide your daughters! paizuri is in love!

Or not.

Gosh, that'd be cool if they made a movie called "Paizuri in Love". It'd be a box office smash!