The Future: AMV's and yours...

[Serv0]

Influenced by many topics from previous posts, this editor, reviewer, and fellow member can only be curious of the many minds out there in this community, and their opinions about the future of AMV's.
I'm also curious of the future of the editors themselves and their dedication towards this hobby, practice for fun, profession, and/or occupation that we've all here seemed to adapt.
And as a side bonus to this 'reflection,' perhaps this post can enlighten the past as well. Perhaps mention the editors who have come and gone and how their presence and now absence influences you today.

The meaning of this post is not to fantasize about the future, but rather add some reality to the future instead. Is there hope for you and your hobby? Or do you know that one day, reality of life will come upon you and that the time will come for you to move on, full filling the real important stuff?
If the answer is yes to the second question, then why bother with your efforts now?

There is no right or wrong answer here.
I am not addressing specific individuals.
I am not attempting to define the concepts of human ambitions.
I am not trying to define meaning.
I am not trying to define anything.
I am merely curious, that's all.

This topic applies to everyone.
Everyone from a teenage individual picking a hobby to work around the harshness of high school, to a college student working their magic to disappear from the stress university, to the middle aged individual who has a home, partner, children, and job.
This topic applies to everyone.
And the questions remain the same for them. And they remain the same for you.

Everyone, including a film editor working his dues in the fields of the motion picture business. A boy who's future holds something that does not uphold or glorify Anime Music Videos. A boy who's time is made towards this business, and this business entirely. A boy who's just curious for the future of something that inspired him to merely create in the first place.

The floor is now yours fellow AMVers.

Where are you ultimately going to be with your AMV talent?
Where are AMVs going ultimately?

Time will tell.
And now it's your time.

[Greggus1]

DADADADAM

[Moonie]

DADADADAM

Hehe..



eh, i just make them for fun?
Never really think about all that other stuf
Its all like pea soup in my head
You make me sleepy now >.>


Sorry I can't add any inteligent conversation
Ben has made me lost all sense of sense sense and now everything is senseless sense to me.
I hope that you sense this post as sense sense and not senseless sense if that makes any sense.

[taifunbrowser]

I think you used the rhetorical fragment effusively and incorrectly in the above argument: I found your statements unintelligible.

The AMV has learned me:

• computer programming
• attention to detail
• creative impact of colors

, and I will probably join the film program at the college I choose. (top 10% gets me my choice heh heh hehhhh)

If the answer is yes to the second question, then why bother with your efforts now?

PESSIMISM GET OUT PLOX KTHX!
Honestly, are you doing a psychological experiment here or are you just so mentally perverted that you doubt the importance of "play"?

Sheesh!

[celibi87]

I started to edit as a way to escape from homework and school. I made it for fun, who cared what people thought about them as long as I liked them. Right??? I then found this site and when I saw that most people have been doing this a lot longer than me, I found myself wanting to edit more to compete with them. I soon realized since I lost interest in a project real fast I wasnt gonna compete with anyone. I soon just made it for myself and my friends to enjoy and stopped posting them here. I did start a few projects for the intention of posting them here but quit halfway into them since I could never do what I wanted with it or got frustrated cause it wouldnt sync right or something.

[Scintilla]

If the answer is yes to the second question, then why bother with your efforts now?

What part of "having fun" and "creating something you can be proud of that'll last indefinitely" do you not understand?

[Otohiko]

The real answer for me is probably "to hell in a handbasket". They have absolutely no bearing on my professional life and I've no intention to directly apply anything I learn through them for anything "useful".

They're just a short-term outlet for what I assume are my lifetime creative tendencies. They're not the only nor the main outlet, but they're good and I enjoy them in a community context.

I could be making them for a long time. Or that stupid AWW video I made last week could be the last thing I ever release. Same difference to me - cause whatever nice thing you say about the future, I make every AMV like it's my last. That's a compact expression of a broader outlook on life for me, if you will.

[ngsilver]

What part of "having fun" and "creating something you can be proud of that'll last indefinitely" do you not understand?

x2

[Serv0]

Honestly, are you doing a psychological experiment here or are you just so mentally perverted that you doubt the importance of "play"?

Yes to the first...
No to the second....

I'm also curious of the future of the editors themselves and their dedication towards this hobby, practice for fun, profession, and/or occupation that we've all here seemed to adapt.

What part of "having fun" and "creating something you can be proud of that'll last indefinitely" do you not understand?

I understand completely. So do all of us today. But will we understand it 10 years from now or just excuse it for a moment?
Are some of us leaving our marks here or are we just playing a moment game?

[BasharOfTheAges]

Clearly we should all just kill ourselves now since it's all so meaningless.