Hello again. Just got back from work.
Hehehe, well yeah, I definitely have to agree about the eye-candy you know? I mention this because I don’t feel I’m particularly clever or skilled on coming up with direction ideas, not even so in 2002 when I did the SMJTX video lol. I feel as if that one was more like an exercise in story telling with effect mash ups

. So in consequence, it ended up being a complete spoiler party

hehe.
So there you go. However, I’d also like to bring up a point and possibly a question about the Boogiepop video I authored.
First of all, I'd like to discuss that, for most AMVs I’ve seen, I have noticed that their content and main ideas are usually guided in most part by the lyrics of the song. And while I’m totally neutral about this, I would definitely appreciate it if someone could cite some examples of good instrumental AMVs which display clever direction and mixing of available visual (the anime) and audible (the song) material without resorting to lyrics.
I guess this would also help me in part to understand if this may just be a subjective perception of mine, or if this is really the current guiding principle for AMV authors.
This brings me to my particular instance in Boogiepop – Trails. Here, the song “Six days” by DJ Shadow contains this huge instrumental gap in its middle section and some supporting lyrics at the beginning and the end. At times it felt as if I was just staring at a blank canvas with nothing more than the organ and guitar beats moving around, precisely the moment when I decided to resort to text play.
Now, if we also bring in the fact that most of the time, the available anime source footage may not necessarily contain what we would expect or wish to blend in with the music to create a new concept, then things can get a little more difficult to put together. But personally, this seems more challenging to me.
For example, I would have considered the option of drawing my own anime shots with the characters reflecting what I’d like to see at a particular moment, but I guess it would have taken me very well over a year to go that way hehe.
So anyway, after stating this, I now would like to ask you guys if you may happen to know about some recommended practices or methods to create good direction concepts which have worked for you in your AMVs. Again, any feedback here is highly appreciated.
Finally, I think that if there are not a lot of instructional materials about the whole process of making an AMV, I might as well start thinking about something to fill this gap and hopefully, leave something useful to anyone interested in creating this kind of videos.
Well, that’s it for me at the moment. I thank you again for your time, and I’ll keep in touch.