M@D's as a category?

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Post by BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:15 am

LivingFlame wrote:What, exactly, does M@D (same as MAD?) stand for? I've yet to figure that out. =\
There was a thread about it not that long ago... I thought it was in GAMV but going back 20 or so pages got me nothing - also the search doesn't seem to like the @ symbol (didn't even find this thread).
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Post by LivingFlame » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:18 pm

So you're telling me to go look for it myself? XD

Well, I suppose I'll try when I get home. I just know I wasn't able to find it up to this point, but hopefully I'll have more luck this time. Or, if anyone else knows what it means, I'll gladly listen to you. :P
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Post by Streicher » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:27 pm

When considering MADs as its own video category. Could you please also make German AMVs it's own video category. And while doing that, consider Russian and Finnish AMVs also.
If necessary, we'll even invent our own words for AMV to be applicable.
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Post by BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:43 pm

Streicher wrote:When considering MADs as its own video category. Could you please also make German AMVs it's own video category. And while doing that, consider Russian and Finnish AMVs also.
If necessary, we'll even invent our own words for AMV to be applicable.
If taken, that line of reasoning would allow any animation to be here as well. Anime is what the Japanese call animation and all.
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Post by JaddziaDax » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:53 pm

to me M@D is more of a style than it is "a japanese amv"

I've seen someone get mad at a Russian chick for making an Air M@D O.o

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Post by Kalium » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:17 pm

Start by offering a good and working definition that lets me define what is an is not a M@D.

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Post by godix » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:26 pm

Kalium wrote:Start by offering a good and working definition that lets me define what is an is not a M@D.
Do you feel like you just saw an AE effects demo reel? If so it's a MAD.
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Post by EvaFan » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:11 pm

I dunno about all this talk about a mad category however something slightly related:

Like next to the anime your selecting there is a button for: "Spoilers" and "In Video"

There could be a button for "Manga" or "Game". Dunno how that would be incorporated into the search function though. But if it was, it could help people looking for AMV's using pictures and outtakes from games or manga.

I know there's a lot of games with unique titles differentiating from their anime counterparts but this is more for the mangas and games that have the same name as the game with no differences. It might take some cleaning to get rid of a lot of the redundant names but the listings wouldn’t be as big and it would be easier for people to find exactly what they are looking for and not select the anime when they were trying to select the game or vice versa. They will also be able to tell people whether or not they are using the manga instead of the anime.

It's more of a, "do the benefits exceed the workload kinda thing" i guess when considering if its worth it.



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MADs are more of a style if you ask me. Calling them japanese amv's is just generalizing. I remember once me and my friend compared some of the top 10% amv's on this site with MADs and clearly seeing major differences. We tried to establish the points of main focus for MAD's as an acronym and came up with: Motion, Ambience, and nothing for "D". D was too hard to think of a word that wont need a dictionary to understand. We were trying to incorporate "still images" with a word starting with "D" but were unable obviously. Just said that to help portray it as a style.
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Post by badmartialarts » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:19 pm

M@Ds do have a kind of distinct style, but that doesn't have a lot to do with being what defines them as just something that has grown out of the Japanese M@D community, in some effort to outdo each other in technical skill and achievement. And there are plenty of M@Ds that look a lot like the AMVs we make, and there are probably plenty of crappy M@Ds that resemble the worst 'Tube videos out there (and browsing the various Japanese versions of the tube proves that point rather well).

Far better to leave M@D it's original definition as "the term for an AMV in Japan".
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Post by Kitsuner » Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:35 am

Eva-Fan wrote:D was too hard to think of a word that wont need a dictionary to understand. We were trying to incorporate "still images" with a word starting with "D" but were unable obviously.
Douga?

Or am I thinking of the other type of M@D? (Szcechuan?)
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