I second this, and is the very thing I did when I came here. My first vid got No response at all when I posted it. (I was totally new) My second vid, got 2 responses, (I still wasn;t posting much then) Even though now after Got active in the comiunuty and people know me more, people have had good things to say about both of those aforementioned vids. THen I created and Posted AR and got lots of response. I think people who know you at least a little, and have some respect for you, will check out your AMV even if they wouldn't be interested in it otherwise. I am like that to an extent. SOme people, I automatically download from since I know them somewhat from their forum presence.Otohiko wrote:One of the best things (I think) is just try to be involved with the community in a reasonable and perhaps even useful ways. Trade and offer opinions, respond to people's announcements, give opinion on issues in threads and participates in activities like challenges, projects, and such.
Just my $.02...I started cranking out AMVs about 3 weeks ago and now have 4.5 (one short remake for a special project). It looks like my videos fall into the middle ground...not the kind to make people stop and go "oooooo!" but not too crappy either. My star ratings are consistant '3's. My 3rd video received a couple of crappy reviews and made me wonder if it was worth continuing. I dropped back and relied on my friends who were my primary audience to begin with. They enjoyed them and that is all that really matters to me. Not every video is going to appeal to everyone else. The kicker to getting your vid noticed is to make it available, on the local level if not also hosted on your own. Once it is listed and available to see, those that are either interested in your anime or song will look it up. I just downloaded a bunch of videos in a contest to judge and realized that these were not the things that appealed to me and I was not qualified to be a judge of these types of videos. Go with what you like and the heck with everyone elses opinion. (Unless you feel they are constructive. Too many reviews are the 'liked it/didn't like it' without explaing why.)ladysun36 wrote:I just got finished with my first anime music video a few days ago. The problem is, I've been working on it for about 6 months and put a lot of work into it and now I want to show it off, but I've realized that this site is so big and so cluttered with music videos that it's hard to get noticed. So now I really want to make an effort to get people to notice it. Does anybody have any suggestions for me to get my video out there and somwhat recognized?
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