The Future: AMV's and yours...

Serv0 · Post by **Serv0** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:46 pm

servo101010 wrote:
Yet many are still confused by this author's confusing words.

So I'll ask again and a little more simply.

Do you see yourself editing AMVs two, five, or ten years from now?

Do you see an evolution for AMVs in the future? Or do you see AMV's being the same concept in the future?

Okay, maybe that wasn't a little more simply, but the questions still stand.

purplepolecat · Post by **purplepolecat** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:48 pm

I hope to be doing AMVs, or something similar, for a long time to come.

Right now I'm in my mid 30s, with a job and all that grown up stuff.

As for the future of AMVs, I think that if advances in the level of technology available to the consumer continues to improve, things could get very interesting. Maybe in 10 years an average joe could make a full length OVA in his spare time on a home PC. That would be fun.

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:38 am

Well, i want to be the very best ....like NO ONE ever was! To edit like fuck is my real test, to make vids is my cause, i will travel across the net, searching far and wide ... shit ...i forget the rest ...

To be Hokage.
That is my dream.

*puts on his wizard hat and cape*
That's is castor, I'm kickin your ass. Bring it.

As far as where amvs are going, i'd say it won't go much further, we've already done most of everything from cool seizure synch and flashy effects, to colorful dance explosions and amazing 3d graphics. There isn't much left to do ... i think amvs will get more popular over all, but nothing new or exciting will happen. If you ask me, Daydream was the final revolutionary video, and skittles was the sign of the end. Or maybe in the end our courage will pull us through ...you teach me and i'll teach you, ppookkeeemmmoon, gotta catch 'em aaaallll ...pokemon!

Ha, i remembered it

Bote · Post by **Bote** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:00 pm

I like creativity which is why I create

, though right now I look at all the amv's I made just as a stepping stone towards something more important in my life-art and artistic endeavours.

Serv0 · Post by **Serv0** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:33 pm

guy07 wrote: As far as where amvs are going, i'd say it won't go much further, we've already done most of everything from cool seizure synch and flashy effects, to colorful dance explosions and amazing 3d graphics. There isn't much left to do ... i think amvs will get more popular over all, but nothing new or exciting will happen. If you ask me, Daydream was the final revolutionary video, and skittles was the sign of the end.

purplepolecat wrote: I hope to be doing AMVs, or something similar, for a long time to come.

Right now I'm in my mid 30s, with a job and all that grown up stuff.

As for the future of AMVs, I think that if advances in the level of technology available to the consumer continues to improve, things could get very interesting. Maybe in 10 years an average joe could make a full length OVA in his spare time on a home PC. That would be fun.

Despite of whether I agree or disagree with both above assumptions doesn't really matter. If there's one thing that the future guarantees, it's the ungaranteed. Or the unexpected.
As I have stated at the beginning of this post:

servo101010 wrote: The meaning of this post is not to fantasize about the future, but rather add some reality to the future instead.

The increasing power of technology is something purplepolecat mentioned. His statement brings an interesting road ahead for not only the world of AMVs, but for the Internet as well.
Another reason why I bring this topic to address, is to perhaps give hope to those that are committed to this AMV experience. To perhaps reflect that the future holds many great things for this medium. And that it will not die, and that our talents and desires will not die with it.
This isn't fantasy. This is reality.

I myself have hope for this AMV medium. The inspiring power of ideas is growing, and it is growing fast. I am making a call to know who else has faith for this remixing talent. And if they have any predictions for this unpredictable future.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:12 pm

... Kindly find a fire and die in it. please.

Serv0 · Post by **Serv0** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:14 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:... Kindly find a fire and die in it. please.

Then it shall be a martyr.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:24 pm

Uh. Lemme see.

I plan on doing AMV's until I either lose interest, become overworked, or get too old.

I plan on going to AMV events this next year, and depending on how that goes depends on how things in that field go for me.

As for the technical future...

Hmm..

I hope that editors make it so that you can point and click what you want to mask, and there is no brain hurting involved.

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:46 am

All we need is to take it one year at a time and we dunk old persons will make it to the end of the amv revolutions.
REFLECTIONS FTW!

BTW, lack if ideas won't kill us, but driking will. fireball ftw

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:47 am

servo101010 wrote:Despite of whether I agree or disagree with both above assumptions doesn't really matter.

So why are you posting if you don't think your opinion matters? Why are you quoting guy07 if you've nothing to say about his words that you've quoted? Usually on a forum, you quote a person if you want to address something that person has said, that being what you've marked in the quote. Because you agree or disagree with what's being said in the quote. You have an opinion that you wish to state regarding what is said in the quote. Why are you quoting people when you have nothing to say about those quotes? It's very annoying to be honest. Like you're just doing it to have an excuse to reiterate what you've already posted because you like to hear yourself talk. Aside from being annoying, it's kinda redundant, too.

servo101010 wrote:The meaning of this post is not to fantasize about the future, but rather add some reality to the future instead.

servo101010 wrote:Another reason why I bring this topic to address, is to perhaps give hope to those that are committed to this AMV experience. To perhaps reflect that the future holds many great things for this medium. And that it will not die, and that our talents and desires will not die with it.
This isn't fantasy. This is reality.

No, seriously now, that's fantasy. It's called being overly optimistic. Dreamy, even. You've serious delusions of grandeur and it's not to your benefit. It's fine to have faith in the future of something you enjoy. It's even fine to wax poetic in finding others who share that faith with you. But don't delude yourself that you're any more realistic than those who see an inevitably glass ceiling in the hobby's future. Especially when they're supplying reasons for their predictions and you're relying on "because I have faith and I want to believe my faith is not in vain".

servo101010 wrote:I am making a call to know who else has faith for this remixing talent. And if they have any predictions for this unpredictable future.

Redundant. What's the point making a prediction if it's unpredictable? What's the point of having a discussion in an open forum if you're going to dismiss any opinion not agreeing with your own? How can you keep a straight face while calling any predictions based on reasonable thought "fantasy" all the while touting your own optimistic hopes as "reality"?

This is an openly pointless thread as far as the origin is concerned. But it's brought out a few opinions that are interesting from a community standpoint.

Where do I see myself 30 years from now? Dead or retired. Carpal tunnel's been threatening for years, I'm sure in 30 years my fingers will be gnarled and my eyes too shot from staring at a computer screen to use the internet, let alone edit amvs.

Where do I see the hobby 30 years from now? It depends on the anime genre. The trekkies stuck around for a long time, but they died down considerably when the source ended. As long as anime continues there'll be fresh fans and the hobby could last indefinitely.

If there's a change on the anime front - new laws in Japan referring to exports or entertainment itself, a crack down on internet pirating of anime episodes, right-wingers stamping out subversive entertainment in the US, better encryption on dvds and control over the internet to prevent 'hacks' from being distributed the same day the new prevention methods are set in place, cultural upheavals in any of the countries supplying the bulk of our amv editors that result in new young people having less time and unmonitored computer access - any of those things could kill the hobby in a second. At the very least it would impede new fans from joining up, leaving the hobby to suffer a slow decline before dying out as the participants succumb to old age and all the time consuming problems that go with it.

Assuming nothing negative happens in the future - a very optimistic assumption, in my opinion - advances in technology will give us better animation to use as our source, better programs to use to improve the sources, easier access to said programs. In that case, we'll continue to outstrip professional "music videos" and people will continue to push the "fair use" clause with hopes of redeeming a hobby that is entirely illegal. Whether that means we'll eventually have amvs on regular television in the place of anime commercials is a fantasy, so I won't go there.

How does the potential future of amvs affect my participation in the hobby now? It doesn't. I don't look that far ahead when I'm watching or editing an amv. I'm seeking momentary relief from boredom. I don't worry about the future of movies when I pop in my favorite dvd. Whether the genre goes down the crapper or pulls itself to new heights makes no difference to my enjoyment or dislike of the movie I'm watching. I need no justification for devoting time to something I enjoy. My time is not wasted. No matter where the hobby ends up, I'm not going to look back on my videos and bemoan the time and effort put into them. I had fun. Nothing else matters.