What's up with blatantly uncreative titles?

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Post by SarahtheBoring » Wed Sep 24, 2003 5:47 pm

DriftRoots wrote:I wonder how many of so-titled AMV's also exhibit a lack of focus/theme/cohesiveness? It's rather hard to come up with a title for something that is not well-developed if you don't already have something in mind before the project is started. (Note: Not saying all AMV's with "catchy" titles are focused/themed/cohesive or otherwise superior to simply-titled ones).
I think this nails it right here. Most of those videos ARE nothing but "random anime + random song."

Granted, most of my titles are lame, too long and/or sound like a bad translation, but I at least try to give them a little more character than anime+song.

That said, I know it's completely unfair and just a pet peeve of mine, but I absolutely cannot STAND when people just take the song's title and randomly stick in a character's name where the title had "me" or "you" or something like that. To me that's worse than just anime+song.

If your video has no concept, either go with the song title or just leave it as "Untitled"... it's a white flag that at least admits you have no creativity.

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Post by mexicanjunior » Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:56 pm

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Post by fyrtenheimer » Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:15 am

i did find one title to be funny though

someone used .hack//sign to utada's simple and clean

so their title is "Simple Hack, Clean Sign"

that's fucken great
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Post by Jebadia » Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:17 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=23450

If that isn't a catchy title I dunno what is....
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Post by Rozard » Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:20 am

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Post by Pie Row Maniac » Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:04 am

Fluxmeister wrote:Anything with the word eternal in the title should be downloaded directly to the recycle bin just to waste the bandwidth of the editor.

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Post by Jebadia » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:09 am

.........ditto?
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Post by Nightowl » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:39 am

I like the titles of the songs I use :(

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Post by Kusoyaro » Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:21 am

Nightowl wrote:I like the titles of the songs I use :(

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Post by LadyPeorth » Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:58 am

I think sometimes it works well to use the anime title and song title. For example, I called my Silent Mobius/Evanescence (not their new shit, I just want to say that) "Lies" video "Silent Lies" and it actually is a big part of the theme. I told myself I would finally upload my videos after AWA so maybe I can help put some more creative (in my opinion) titles in the new video list.

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