Do people take the date an AMV was created into account?

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:51 pm

I always try to judge something in relation to the time it was made. It just feels right to me. The same way to don't watch a movie from the 40's and say "WHAT THE FUCK WHERES MY COLOR".

A funny example would be Wonka's Holy Leeping Ninjas video made almost two years ago. He used Aerials by System of a Down and was the first to use it on this site. Recently he got a review from someone who gave him a 6 for originality because the song is overused.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:09 pm

Nope, I don't consider the date at all when watching. In fact, a lot of "older" video are a hell of a lot better then the current crop of new ones poping up. But I won't hold that against all these newbies flooding in.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:19 pm

Beowulf wrote:I always try to judge something in relation to the time it was made. It just feels right to me. The same way to don't watch a movie from the 40's and say "WHAT THE FUCK WHERES MY COLOR".

Wow, NO words could have better stated!

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:23 pm

As far as compression is concered, yes I take that as a factor for a videos age. Back when MPEG-1 was the best you could get I'm not going to write an opinion chewing the creator out for not using MPEG-4. Outside of that, the experience of the creator, if this is someones first video and they make a newbie mistake I'll let them know and let it slide. If it's an AMV veteran I'm going to be much more harsh when they make a mistake because they should already know not to do whatever it is they did (IVTC and deinterlacing is a good example.)

And Quu needs to remake that Escaflowne vid with Chemicals Between Us.

BogoSort · Post by **BogoSort** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:25 pm

Beowulf wrote:I always try to judge something in relation to the time it was made. It just feels right to me. The same way to don't watch a movie from the 40's and say "WHAT THE FUCK WHERES MY COLOR".

So you would take a relatively recent movie that was shot in black and white like Clerks and say "WTF?!?!? WHERES MY COLOR"?

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:16 pm

not unless a video really sparks my interest

Vorghagen · Post by **Vorghagen** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:22 pm

BogoSort wrote:
Beowulf wrote:I always try to judge something in relation to the time it was made. It just feels right to me. The same way to don't watch a movie from the 40's and say "WHAT THE FUCK WHERES MY COLOR".
So you would take a relatively recent movie that was shot in black and white like Clerks and say "WTF?!?!? WHERES MY COLOR"?

I guess he'd take Clerks in the same way he'd take Playground Love by Nightowl. Deliberately "primitive" looking for artistic effect.
^^Absolute class video by the way.^^

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:39 pm

Well, it should make a difference, but at the same time, an older video should have the same chance of being just as good as a newer one even without the fancy editing tools we now have....

Actually, for AnimeEvolution in August, I want to take a poll of selected creators for the top 60 videos of all time to be played in coundown order in the AMV room over the weekend... BUT, I don't wan't to see is vodei from just the past year or so only.. I think there are quite a few older videos that should be on that list... Well, more on that in the next while

Vlad

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:50 pm

Maybe you should clarify in the poll you plan to make that a certain amount has to be this year, another amount for another year, and so forth.

aluminumstudios · Post by **aluminumstudios** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:04 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:...
Actually, for AnimeEvolution in August, I want to take a poll of selected creators for the top 60 videos of all time to be played in coundown order in the AMV room over the weekend... BUT, I don't wan't to see is vodei from just the past year or so only.. I think there are quite a few older videos that should be on that list... Well, more on that in the next while

Vlad

That's a cool idea, but it would be tough to do since fewer people have seen the older videos. I'd hazard to say a majority of people have gotten into AMVs in the last few years, and they would mainly know the videos that have been popular more recently.

I vote for that Bebop video from Otakon 1999(?) with the falling cows