AMV: Just effects?

[genestarwind21122]

I've been seeing lots of AMVs lately, to get mine hyped up and ready, and I've seen <i>hidden</i> vids that were awesome even without the flashy effects. Can a video be awesome even if it was just fades and cross dissolves? Or does it have to <i>have</i> an effect to make it <b>great</b>?

just another stupid question asked by another stupid n00b

Just to put in my say on things. I have to say an amv doesn't need to have effects to be an awesome amv. Cross dissolves, fading and overlays are great for certain amv's. For the most part the video has to have meaning or else it is just sensless. It isn't that hard to sync the lyrics to an upbeat song and put special effects in there at the same time, but I find it common in the ones I watch that they have great effects but no lyrical sync. The story in my opinion is what counts. The effects are just an add in that will improve the video. For example Shrine of the Goddess one of my earlier amv's did fairly well and didn't have any special effects in it at all. I hope this clears things up a little bit.

Gene Starwind 21122

[MikaelJuha]

amvs is about spillin the m&ms for others to grab, en if you pour them in a bowl, people will like you, if you pour them in the dirt....>_< people will hate you, take other people's m&ms, take a brown chocolate one, make it pink, and take a yellow one and take the peanut out of it, and so on and so forth, just try not to make one crazy bag of m&ms in the end, we like them to be nice or sumtin, i duno, its all m&ms to me baby!

[inthesto]

amvs is about spillin the m&ms for others to grab, en if you pour them in a bowl, people will like you, if you pour them in the dirt....>_< people will hate you, take other people's m&ms, take a brown chocolate one, make it pink, and take a yellow one and take the peanut out of it, and so on and so forth, just try not to make one crazy bag of m&ms in the end, we like them to be nice or sumtin, i duno, its all m&ms to me baby!

This man is obviously a genius.

[MikaelJuha]

lol yeah, that's right, i'm a genius, <eatin a nice bag of M&Ms as we speak ^_^> cudos to inthesto for agreein with the M&M Law of Relativity

^_^

[Castor Troy]

amvs is about spillin the m&ms for others to grab, en if you pour them in a bowl, people will like you, if you pour them in the dirt....>_< people will hate you, take other people's m&ms, take a brown chocolate one, make it pink, and take a yellow one and take the peanut out of it, and so on and so forth, just try not to make one crazy bag of m&ms in the end, we like them to be nice or sumtin, i duno, its all m&ms to me baby!

The best advice yet!

[MikaelJuha]

thanx ^_^, i try to be simple about bein a AMV-scientist of sorts lol, just kidin, sumtin i should probably post in the Newbie posts perhaps

[Pyle]

ACHHHHHHHripoff OOOOO![size]

Gotta get that cold checked out

[requiett]

I can't ignore a thread like this. I've done both, and I have to say FX-driven is far more satisfying for me to create. Yeah, I agree it does have to have at least the resemblence of a point with continuity... other wise, you end up with shit like Shonen Bushidou. That was just painful to watch. O_o

[Pyle]

Shounen Bushido was awesome

That is...the lip sync and overlays were...the white and black boxes were retarded though.

[requiett]

Heh. From the sound of it... everyone loved it but me. I can appreciate the INSANE amount of work that went into it. But I thought it was just GAY.