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by Driftpeasant » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:34 am
The theme is hate. If you want to make a drama based video that centers around hate, go ahead. Same with parody. It's a theme, not an indication of the way the video has to go.
I admit I'm not really an AMV creator past the "hey, that idea sounds cool" stage, but I can think of several ways off the top of my head to make a fairly funny video centered around hate. "Stars" from Les Miserables set to Digi Charat footage of interplay between Rabi en Rose and Digiko would seem to both be funny, damned weird, and go with the hate theme. "Hate Is All You Need" by Delgados set to footage of Touga from Ranma 1/2 would probably end up fairly touching, but could very easily be played for laughs. Much as I am loathe to admit I know what the song is about, Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" could be set to any of the many painful relationships in Marmalade Boy and come out quite well. If you make it with Rokutanda as the central character, I can't see it coming out as anything but funny. While I don't know if it qualifies as a music video, per se, I imagine you could come up with a decent trailer rehash of "The War of the Roses" to anime footage and I don't know of much that symbolizes hate better. Pretty much everyone on this forum is better than AMV creation than I am. I have every confidence that these are not the only possible ideas centered on hate.
We're not looking for some ode to hatred, or a paean to pain or anything. Just something centered around a central theme. That theme, this year at least, is Hate. I imagine next year it'll be Winter, or Cows, or Texas, or perhaps Slurpees. Possibly something else entirely.
But to answer your question, yes, we did give this some thought. I'm sorry if it doesn't meet with your approval. Part of the reason for the decision was to try to encourage new videos for submission, because it seems unlikely that lots of folks will just randomly have hate themed videos lying around. At the same time, if you happen to HAVE a really good hate themed video, we don't want to exclude you from submitting it. Part of the reason was that we didn't want to just have a traditional AMV contest. We'd like to be a bit different. Thus, a theme contest.
[jibe] Of course, if you don't think your skills are up to it...[/jibe]
Also, given that this is also posted in the AMV Contests forum, perhaps the discussion over the contest, now that we have one, should be had over there...
