I think this nails it right here. Most of those videos ARE nothing but "random anime + random song."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).
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.