
The most important aspect to an AMV?
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Meaning. Either intended, or intertextual. Essentially, you must answer the question, "why do I want someone to watch this?" And even then, it's not guaranteed you'll succeed in having the audience understand.
And incorrect aspect ratios piss me off, but VLC helps me deal with that almost immediately, so I hardly consider it necessary to enjoyment.
And incorrect aspect ratios piss me off, but VLC helps me deal with that almost immediately, so I hardly consider it necessary to enjoyment.
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It's hard on us old people. The eyes can't focus, glaze up, and start throbbing.Kevmaster wrote:I don't see how it can be hard on the eyes. It's pretty much just like watching at other stuff, I don't really see the difference for the eyes.
It's not necessarily the usage. Fast or slow, effects are not anime footage. I like to get vids that use familiar anime footage because...it's familiar and no matter how they use the footage it will be still be familiar. Familiar is easy on the eyes because you don't have to focus very long to "see" each part. You're just recognizing or remembering it. Effects are new. They're not familiar. You have to focus on them in order to "see" them because there's no stock memory to draw from.
To give an example, you read by recognizing words or sentences. If you see a strange jumble of letters you have to sound it out because it's not familiar. If you see an entire paragraph of 'words' made up of jumbled letters it's very difficult to "read". The more effects, the longer it takes to process each one. If the video is 3 minutes the more effects crammed into it, the less time you have for each one. After a certain point you hit the threshold of "it's all a blur and my eyes hurt so bad I'm turning it off now." There's just too many to process. It's not the quality, it's the sheer excessive amount.
Give me the best cheese cake in the world in small bits and I'll love it. Shove the entire thing down my throat in three minutes and I'm gonna throw it right back up on you no matter how prettily it's decorated or how good it might taste. My stomach's just not big enough to handle it.
I agree that falls under usage. Too much of a good thing gets nauseating. That doesn't mean it's not a good thing. It just needs to be redistributed in smaller portions.
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To answer the original question, Reviewability. If I don't want to watch it again, it's a useless video. For me. It does nothing for me so it might as well not exist. I wasted my time downloading and watching it. Too bad. And reviewability can't be broken into categories. With one vid it might be reviewable because of the subject although the capture is horrendous. In another I might never watch it again because the editing is just way too slow (or fast). It's a combination that's different for each video. And a lot of the time it just depends on my mood when I watched it. If I didn't like it then, I'd delete it and we'll never know if I would have liked it better if I'd saved it and tried again later when I was in a better mood.
That's the same answer for most viewers on the org, too, which is why "reveiwability" is the lowest score on ops. It's the only one where everyone can be entirely honest and the creator can't take offense. It's not my fault I didn't like your video. It's not your fault I didn't like your video. You didn't make the video for me, right? So me not liking your video doesn't mean you failed anything. It doesn't mean your video wasn't well edited. It doesn't mean you suck. It means I didn't like it, and that's that. Go show it to someone else, maybe they'll like it more. Who cares if I like your vid? You don't even know me.
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Re-viewability, but more importantly to me, is whether I want to recommend/show the amv to someone else, usually someone who is NOT an editor, but who watches anime (or not) that I think will enjoy watching the amv.
I suck at editing myself but continue to do so because it's a hobby of mine. I also no longer give ops because I don't feel I can judge others on something they do better than myself. I leave quick comments or if there's something I think MAY help with that editor's future efforts, I may PM him/her instead.
I suck at editing myself but continue to do so because it's a hobby of mine. I also no longer give ops because I don't feel I can judge others on something they do better than myself. I leave quick comments or if there's something I think MAY help with that editor's future efforts, I may PM him/her instead.
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TJ actually did one. he sings it, I think he'd agree with me, that is NOT music -_- ofc there's also the karaoke meps and stuff. if you can call that music ><Fall_Child42 wrote:but i have yet to see one without music.