The 2008 genre challenge

Devil^Shin · Post by **Devil^Shin** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:34 pm

well this is very good idea, maybe i'll join

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:20 pm

servo101010 wrote:The question is, who's going to be the first to post?

By the end of january I will either have a non-romantic drama or a horror done. It depends on which one grabs my interest. So I don't know if who will be first but hopefully I'll be one of the early ones.

dwchang wrote:I can think of PLENTY of non-sappy songs in the 80's that kick ass, but yeah...they'd still be cheesy 80's songs >_>

I look forward to your Twisted Sister romance video.

prYzm wrote:uh what about people who have no idea how much they will edit, but may find halfway thru next year they have say 4 diff vids, late entries accepted? =D

Nerd got it right. The 'prize' for this is whatever self satisfaction you get from challenging yourself and succeeding. The price of failure is whatever self loathing you get from challenging yourself and failing.

Some of you are reading far to much into this. This isn't a set contest with die hard rules, this is basically a call for people to expand their abilities. Since people actually tend to respond better when given limits than an open ended 'improve damn you' I set the categories as a goal. If someone only does one or two videos in a new style instead of 8, well at least that's one or two more than they may have done otherwise.

Incidentally, there may be some value to doing the effects whore video first. That way you'll learn enough about effects to be able to add them in to later videos without screwing it all up. Just something to think about

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:46 pm

godix wrote:I look forward to your Twisted Sister romance video.

We're Not Gonna Take It (Up The Ass)?

Aneino_Kaijin · Post by **Aneino_Kaijin** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:21 pm

What a good impetus to get that dance-type video out of my system so I can go back to drama/serious. Eh. Actually, I'll try for all 8. Fail, yeah, but I'll try.

NS · Post by NS » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:39 pm

I'll prolly do the trailer first.. Since I've wanted to for a long time. Then i'll prolly do the effect whore one sicne That'll prolly take me the longest.. seeing as how I'm a perfectionist and will not know where to start with the effects.. The horror will be kind hard cause.. My sources are hard to get there, oh well. this should be interesting

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:03 pm

I'm most probably in..
Good motivation, and nice way to make 2008 a better year for amvs.

NS · Post by NS » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:07 pm

actually.. prolly 2009 a better year for amvs, since many of these will prolly suck, but 2009 will have people doing different things with experience behind it :O

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:41 pm

NerdStrudel wrote:actually.. prolly 2009 a better year for amvs, since many of these will prolly suck, but 2009 will have people doing different things with experience behind it :O

But 2008 will still be a year with bigger variety. Which will mean a better year, no matter how bad the videos will be at what they do (there will most probably be good ones among them). :O

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:00 am

I for one can simply not wait for all of the "Other" videos.

people had better not chince on those

celibi87 · Post by **celibi87** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:08 pm

Id be in if I edited any these days.

*thinks on it* Eh, I will join for the hell of it.