Nightowl wrote:
The reason music videos cost so goddamned much to make, whether they suck or not, is that you have to pay for equipment, crew, stock, locations, insurance, rights, among about ten thousand other little things AMV creators don't give two shits about. You want to impress me? You want to be on par with an actual music video? Create your own cel-frame animation and cut it to music. Hell, create your own music. Actually make it look good.
There are Japanese MAD creators that do this to some extent. Granted, they are only doing it for fun and not getting paid for it and hence they wouldn't do ALL the things in that list. What a lot do is take still frames from video games and animate them, give motion and atmosphere to them, sometimes going for the pseudo-3d look. I know there's a fan made video of misuzu (from AIR) floating around on the internet because people mistook it to be leaked footage from a rumoured AIR anime production. I've seen some GREAT videos out there, and some rival the official videos that game companies produce.
Plus, I'm sure there's doujin circles that first draw their images, and then have another person in the circle animate them, etc.
And you know why most music videos are simply shots of the musician not cut to the beat? Because the song doesn't matter. This is a business, and they're selling the "artist," not the music. Don't even try to disagree with me, because you learn that's the way it is pretty quick when a music producer says it to your face.
Doing it for the sake of business isn't really an excuse for producing an artistically-challenged video. When I watch a video, I'm not gonna think "oh, they have to earn money, hence this video is better than that one over there." Rather, I'd think "it looks like they put 10 minutes of thought into the layout of this video."
I stand by my argument. No one here could direct a music video. You don't have the knowledge or experience. It's doubtful many of you will get it anytime soon, either.
-N
If you mean MV in the industry's sense of the word (with the whole money issue), then yeah, people here probably can't since they are doing this for _fun_, not profit. If you mean MV in the artistic sense, then I'm afraid you're mistaken...
