It can be done!

[SSJVegita0609]

No, I'm not making it up, why would I make something up an make a huge post about it detailing a fake scenerio? From what I gather, Hollywood is a big lumbering giant, and some people have been trying more overt AMV style editings, like Man on Fire and The Matrix example you mentioned, but by and large everyone hasn't.

I'll vouch for that. I used to work in the industry, and it's a real old boy network. Mostly, the fancy stuff doesn't get done mainly thanks for punishing deadlines. The real world usually doesn't have the time, or the willingness to care about a movie trailers coolness the way that AMVers do about their videos. Pretty much, you have to make whats handed to you, and it has to be fast, and good.

Congrats Beo! Working with people that are at the top of their game, and in a studio with money to burn is a treat and a privilage that should be enjoyed.

x2

I've heard this from many a professor that either is, or used to be involved in both the film industry and mainstream television. There are quite a few art-oriented filmmakers (and there have been since the dawn of the medium) that LOVE this kind of experimentation, but the problem is their own autourship (sp?) limits their audience to people with their specific tastes. Since they are making stuff for them, they're willing to try your patience, which is a sin in most of the industry. Finding balance is tough, and it seems that mainstream media these days is way closer to being financially motivated than one would hope. Hence, I'm gonna have to say that Beo is right, and there are probably a ton of people in or around Hollywood that would find the type of editing and artistic experimentation in the upper ranks of AMVs to be quite refreshing, especially when they're used to producing "American Idol Rip-Off #6" or "Romantic Comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker #5".

It's fan-freaking tastic when someone can be both sincere AND appealing.

[Ezmereth Moriquendi]

that's so cool. ^_^ congratulations! i hope i can get a job that way someday. like, maybe i could even work in making anime because of the fanart and other stuff i'm doing now. i'd love to do something in anime or video editing. -^_^-

[SQ]

(hasn't read anything but the first post)

Congrats, Beo. This makes a whole lot of sense, actually. When I was in highschool, I took Video Productions class at a school that had a news station thing.
After showing my AMVs to my teacher, he instantly started keeping all my tapes and showing them to other students, saying "this is how you edit."

When I was making a video on one of the boxes that I didn't finish as fast as I normally did, one of the news reporters took it from the box, even though it was unfinished, and aired the thing during the credits marvelling at it's "beat synch."

The first day of my college, the teacher for cinematography showed us a demo tape and he went on and on about how awesome the "beat synch" was, and that that's good to have. The funny thing was the beat synch wasn't as good as some bad first AMVs. XD

Anyway, as far as beat synch in movies, Matrix had it down pat, although it was hard to notice(which I guess makes it better). Saw (the first one) also used a lot of beat synch. Which, would've been awesome if it hadn't repeated scenes so many times. The first time I saw Saw, I watched the credits to see if some AMVer made it. XD

But for an awesome example of beat synch that would probably work well with movies over the long run, try watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimerron. That's just one huge music video.