Describe your crative process

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:45 pm

I want to know how everyone here makes their AMV's. How seriously they take it, where their ideas come from. And most importantly, how they make their videos. Do you watch the anime through once with a notepad and jot down scenes to use or do you do it by the seat of your pants? Do you choose your anime and then the song? or the song and then choose the anime? What is the deciding factor in a scene that makes it stand out over all the others? When do you use a special effect and why? things like that.

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:47 pm

I go by, "Hey, that look pretty cool!"

That's about it.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:54 pm

I do the ballerina twirl.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:18 pm

I listen to the voices in my head. And then do the opposite.

You choose Sam,the rest · Post by **You choose Sam,the rest** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:42 pm

I follow the images in my head.....

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:02 pm

(ignoring the funneh spam)

I'll pick up on a certain song, on the basis of lyrics that seem to match stuff I've watched.

I then listen to the song until I get sick of it (usually 4 or 5 times at a stretch on the way to and from work), analyzing the lyrics and imagining scenes to put to them. Once I hit this point, it's usually a given that I will go through with the video.

Then it comes down to DVD-ripping and editing.

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:12 pm

Usually I'll hear a song, and by now, every song I hear I try and think if it would make a video, so I'm always seeing video ideas, and the only cure for this is more cow bell!

Anywho, I usually visualize the video in my head for a good week or so, because by the end of the week, I'd of gotten off my lazy ass to start the video.

Alot of times a song will carry a part in it that may be long and drawn out (good point for a dramatically animated scene in an anime, almost any anime, but that is usually for..uhm...more dramatic videos, as for action hell, any scene can work at times) that gives me ideas, not dirty ones either, well, sometimes, then again, I find myself without pants at those times...but it's cool.....

Ashton · Post by **Ashton** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:21 pm

Old creative process: Pick a song and an anime (any two will do) and think of about 2 clips which might or might not look cool in certain places. Then, struggle with the footage and song until you have spent 70 hours on even a rudimentary AMV.
New Process: Take out a pad of paper and a pen. For the next day write down every interesting song you hear. Then, go home and download all of them. Think about what anime might work with those songs, and then decide weather or not purchases will be made. Aqcuire footage and CDs. Next, get back to the pad of paper, and break the song up into general sections (puting tons of space below each heading.) Listen to the song several times, then re-watch the entire anime (for movies, twice would be fine) making notes on scenes that fit the sections of the music. Next, listen to the song a whole bunch more times. I typicly make a list at this point that looks like this:
1. Slight pulsing/intro
no background(4):
violin intro(6):
tension build(2):
2. Explosion to first chorus
chorus intro (4):
chorus end (2):
bridge(6):
and so on and so forth. The numbers represent the number of measures in each of the sub sections. The more measures, the more footage that will fit. Next I might watch the anime one more time, and this time around fill all those sub section slots with definate scene selections.
Thats the planing part anyway. After that the work is all exicution in premiere/AE. So, yeah, any questions? ^_^

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:25 pm

*listens to the radio*
DUDE THIS SONG FITS......

or

*random song stuck in head*
You know, this could be fitting for.....

or

*recieves blow to the head witha blunt object*
It just dawned on me that.....

or

Beer, gin, whisky, wine, champagne, bourbon, sugar....

After that come endless hours of listening to the song and taking notes on a lyrics sheet. Then I get to work.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:26 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:Beer, gin, whisky, wine, champagne, bourbon, sugar....

The greatest sources of inspiration!