Ingow wrote:I think you gotta see it this way: Editors can't just build their footage from nothing, hentai is mainly meant to be stupid porn like there is tons of stupid live action porn. As long as there are more shows produced that are like that, the more AMVs will be made that can only focus on what the show is providing. I mean srsly, there's only so much you can alter the source without making it look ridiculous.
I agree with the above, but that's what I think makes the challenge
interesting, an AMV that can actually rise above its source
material.
I think it also provides quite a lot of creative freedom in the
following way: there is no plot to speak of that will get in the way.
That is to say, people who are familiar with the anime will have no
preconceived notions of what the AMV should be about, their
expectations go no further than the sex. As an editor I can then
make any story I want with the source, I don't have to follow
any of the plot guidelines the anime has set because there aren't
any. In other words, when life gives you lemons, you make
lemonade (pun absolutely intended :)
