AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (next stop - Nekocon)

[Squancho]

MaggIvy: I do have your stuff. I need to look at it again.

Dar: Which entry was yours? I don't see it in my files. Might wanna resend? It happens.

[Dar]

MaggIvy: I do have your stuff. I need to look at it again.

Dar: Which entry was yours? I don't see it in my files. Might wanna resend? It happens.

Side boob hour... O_O
You said you got it before @_@

[Squancho]

MaggIvy: I do have your stuff. I need to look at it again.

Dar: Which entry was yours? I don't see it in my files. Might wanna resend? It happens.

Side boob hour... O_O
You said you got it before @_@

Okay, then I do have it. I got confused because your name was Darfurnub before. Didn't know you'd changed.

[Squancho]

UPDATE:
Apparently, Gmail now has a 25mb file transfer limit. Unless and until I can figure out how to set up an FTP account, I'm gonna need you all to send me your clips through Rapidshare or Megaupload. Send me the download link(s) along with the clip information to the same email address.

In other news, I haven't heard from anyone in a while. I panic and worry when nothing moves. To this end, I think limiting the theme to even something as expansive as TV may be still too constricting. I think I'm gonna open up more and go with how we did it last year since it seems to work so well.

In other words, I still need more theme material but will accept "regular" clips. I'll probably go back to the [adult swim] concept but will personally create some spots (game commercials, bumpers, etc) to legitimize and solidify the theme. There will be a different opening (I'm considering something along the lines of Robot Chicken) which I'll try to have a rough sketch for within the next couple of weeks.

Again, it feels like the TV theme might be still too limiting so bring me whatever you had planned. I'm not saying I want TV theme songs, show clips, commercials, etc from only [as]. Practically anything that is or has been on TV is fair game so keep moving in that direction. Just know that I'm accepting your non-theme clips as well.

[Angelyco]

I didn't think it was too restrictive at all...quite the opposite, there are pretty much endless possibilities. I'm already thinking about my second submission

[Gaelstrom]

I'd like to request you think hard on how you can avoid the adult swim theme again. It was done for AMVS3 and as soon as repetition comes into the mix, you start killing the project's uniqueness I think.

Maybe you can go back to the "smoke" mentality and think of an inside joke to underline the entire thing without it needing to be as present. You asked for TV stuff, so perhaps going along those lines for something that unifies it will birth some new ideas. Like for example the TV ratings are absolutely insane if you've seen some of the strange acronyms. I have access to a professional microphone, we could dub in "The following clip is rated PG13, for irrelevant violence, a single curse word, and hypocrisy to the rating system." "The following clip is rated TV E. L. P. for "Everybody Loves Pantsu," for gratuitous fan service, endless Moe and please help us we are locked in this basement being forced to... rate... these clips...?"

Not that funny, but it utilizes the TV concept. I just came up with it randomly, and it's not a good idea if it's done seriously because it will prepare people for potential clips and ruin the surprise and humor potentially. If you did something ironic like "The following clip is rated X for unwatchable levels of eye-damaging pornography" followed by a Hamtaro clip or something. I dunno, but you have plenty of time, please do your best to go for something unique. And don't try too hard, best thing to do is just say "I'm looking for something, I'd like to be open to a good idea" and then just let it come to you without trying too hard. Give it some time and don't worry, we still have at least 3 months.

[Squancho]

I'd like to see someone do one of those prescription drug ads where they list a million side effects. I also wanna see a few well-known TV theme songs done. I think I might do the Scrubs theme song with Dokuro-chan and call it "Scrubbed."

And, after a moment of thought, a couple of ideas for an opening came to mind. One is rather brief, fashioned after 24 ("The following takes place between whatever time it is now and 24 minutes from now..."). The title would be adjusted as soon as I know how long this year's episode actually is. Another idea I had was a Real World opening...something where we can introduce the editors in the beginning. Still thinking on it. I'm open to other suggestions.

Someone had an idea for the running gag but I haven't seen or heard from them in a while. This is probably the toughest part each year because it needs to bear the most impact. Again, let me know if any of you have ideas...

[Angelyco]

As soon as a gag is decided on, I'll definitely contribute to it

[krvabo]

Anyway, krvabo sent his first submission for this year's project. It's pretty awesome; almost epic, really. Classic, to be sure.

Ok this 'almost epic' BUGGED me for months , so now I had some time and decided to do something about it. I sat down and removed a couple of things that where annoying me as well. The video stayed the same length, but I repositioned a small part of video and stretched some other part to fill in over a piece that just didn't fit in (I'm sure you'll agree). I've also removed some lip action in the part following that, because it always annoys me when it's not correctly synced. There is some mouth action, but this is the best I could do without drawing a part of her face again. It's more her mouth closing though, no muttering, and it looks very nice.
I'm almost sure it shall now be labeled 'EPIC'.

Also I've sent in my second submission which has -a LOT- of lip sync, I've started work on that months ago, but due to lack of time I never got around to finishing it. The lip sync isn't awesome because the series doesn't have that either, so it's really hard to find good parts to use. The result is pretty cool and I'm sure the clip will get some laughs. ( During encoding I noticed some serious 'saw action' due to wrong aspect ratio and encoding errors.. FFFUUUUU. I've sent it in as a 95MB DV avi o_O. That's the best I could do without utterly destroying the result, this looks fine. ). I might send in a v2 of this as well with some small adjustments (there are some parts that have changed colors / person movement because of scene changes that where pieced together.) For now, please see this as a final as I have no clue if I'm going to have time to fix this.

I've actually got quite a number ideas which are perfect for the Salad, but I'm not sure they will get a real laugh, though the combination is fun / original. I've also got a few ideas that are the same joke as in previous 'hell / salad style amv' but with different music / clips, so I won't do those..

[Squancho]

I liked the clip and will PM you about the specifics soon. I'm just curious about why the color change? Was it something like a show where there's a conversation at dinner and the first person to talk is eating steak, then they cut to someone else for a second, and they cut back to the first person but now there's salmon on their plate? In other words, was that an error in the anime or a program glitch? Either way, there's potential there still. Again, I'll PM you about it.