AMV Making Workshop?

LightPriestess · Post by **LightPriestess** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:04 pm

I have a tendency every now and then to post in the wrong forum. If I've done this just now I apologize beforehand.

I'm homeschooled, and there are quite a few other homeschoolers in my area that are interested in AMVs. The thing is, not a single one of them knows how or where to start, and they don't have the money to spend on expensive software (even $50 is too high). Some don't even have a computer at their disposal.

I'm not going to claim I'm an expert in AMV creation, but I do happen to be one of the few who has a lot of anime dvds, music, and several computers available for AMV construction. And I also don't mind teaching, since I have experience in that.

What I'm trying to ask is, do you think hosting an AMV Making Workshop is a good idea? If so, has anyone tried to do this and has it been sucessful? Are there any suggestions you can offer?

Any feedback, comments, and responses are welcome.

Thank you in advance.

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:09 pm

hehe i ones gave a amv workshop... its shitty to give... anyway i like the idea id say go for it even though im not gonna be a part of it =P

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:21 pm

Argument 1

I tried to teach my roommate how to make amvs and she (being the "perfectionist" she is) would get upset if i tell her that some timing is off o.0 "waah! but I worked so hard on it, do you know how hard it was to do (insert effect here), I had to cut it into so many clips and blahblah blah"... yea, I dont know how hard some things are, cause its not like I dont sit here and do it every day /sarsasm... then I would try to show her how to fix it, and she would get upset and say "are you making this or am I? cause I want to make this and I dont need you trying to say you made this!!"

also, she refused to learn how to rip DVDs, she would sit around and tell me "well you know, i want to make an AMV" and I'd be like "what do you want me to do about it?" I showed her about 3 times how to do it, and she still refused to learn cause "it was too technical/difficult" OH POO!

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Argument 2 (counter)

I showed my husband how to drop clips on to the time line, and after a few days he was teaching me how to do things...
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o.0

so all I can say is that if you go through with it I hope you get good students, but there are dangers to being a teacher of sorts... and why I would probably be too frustrated to do something like that myself...

you might want to plan out a lesson (song/anime combo) and maybe start off with Windows Movie Maker and a really short song...

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:32 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:Argument 2 (counter)

I showed my husband how to drop clips on to the time line, and after a few days he was teaching me how to do things...

lol

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:34 pm

SuperFusion wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:Argument 2 (counter)

I showed my husband how to drop clips on to the time line, and after a few days he was teaching me how to do things...
lol

o.0 what threatened by a guy smarter than you?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:09 pm

All I will say on this is, if you want to do something like that at least try to learn the proper way to do things yourself, so you don't teach them bad methods. A good starting point is this: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/

Kobe101 · Post by **Kobe101** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:15 pm

You sould start a business and charge.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:16 pm

Kobe101 wrote:You sould start a business and charge.

Nah, not enough people fall for that

Kobe101 · Post by **Kobe101** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:18 pm

Even with advertising?

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:55 am

Meh, who you gonna advertise to? Similarly poor anime fans?

I've been invited to do a AMV workshop accross to another state (accross the sea actually in Tasmania) by a university anime society... they got it into their heads that just because I was working for a mainland convention in the AMV department, that all of a sudden I was some sort of expert...

But anyway, it was free airfares and lodging for the weekend so who was I to say no (of course I should have probably thought it through better seeing as how they could have harvested my organs while there

)... so yeah, started there to do an AMV workshop with them, they even hired out an entire LAN joint so they can edit, with VirtualDub all around the computers...

The problem was, with such a limited amount of time and with me only doing it, in the end all we really did was talk, much like if they would have attended an AMV panel... I guess in some ways it was informative, but I don't think it served the purpose of what a workshop is suppose to be about...

So my advice is, don't hope for one day and bam your pupils are 5 star AMV creators... Treat it like it would be any other class in any normal school... let time pass for the knowledge to sink in.