Style

godix · Post by **godix** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:43 pm

OtakuForLife wrote:as for FX, someone should make a joke video with tons of Effects
and like a single frame of anime

Actually I'm kinda curious, anyone know what the lowest amount of anime actually used in an AMV is? I did one with just 44 frames of an anime but I'm sure someone has me beat.

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:51 pm

godix wrote:
OtakuForLife wrote:as for FX, someone should make a joke video with tons of Effects
and like a single frame of anime
Actually I'm kinda curious, anyone know what the lowest amount of anime actually used in an AMV is? I did one with just 44 frames of an anime but I'm sure someone has me beat.

1 frame.. it wasnt really an amv.. but it had a popframe of anime...although i will NEVER release it.. *seeing as its not really completed... still in beta form...* but its a good beta... maby next year i'll finish it..

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:26 am

Style sucks.

*cheap Web culture joke*

DDramone · Post by **DDramone** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:04 pm

i don think i bin doin this long enough to have a style, unless you count only usin punk

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:01 am

If someone explained to me the kind of style I had, I'd be a little taken back.

Mostly because I'd feel like that person was stalking me.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:29 pm

I'd say I have a distinctive style, but you can really only see it if you look at the video's technical aspects in terms of the other earlier works I've done. I mean, even when I was editing based on the flow of the clips rather than the music or linear-rip editing or doing truly randomly-edited videos (I would actually cut a whole bunch of clips from my sources, number them, and then use winamp's shuffle feature to randomize them-I only used this technique three times, and it really only worked out 'well' once) I could see there was improvement, and I think the linear-rips and last random video I did excelled because my eye for clip selection had become better, and so the videos didn't turn out *quite* as bad (heck, I actually enjoy watching them from time to time).

When I actually sat down and started focusing on not being impatient and throwing a video together in an afternoon or over the course of four hours in two nights, the style started showing through a lot more. Overall, mood, lyric sync, beat sync, and very atmospheric shots that are usually skewed in some aspect tend to be my trademarks. In my newer videos, starting with New Disease, I switched over to pure beat syncing with some emphasis on lyric matching (and balanced the two out with my newest vid), and have since toyed around with purposely throwing in an off-beat cut here or there or syncing the action in a clip to the sudden silence after the beat happens (there's an Akane shot in my second-newest video that uses that one). My comedy tends to be sick, dark, and sadistic; my drama/romance vids tend to be insanely atmospheric (although only one of them is well-done), and my action vids tend to be timed well (in my newer vids, anyway; otherwise it was just a lucky accident). Other people have told me these things, but I'm generally aware of it while I'm editing.

I've been told before that my editing style nowadays switches from video to video, but I can pick out certain things in my own editing that make the editing style seem somewhat familiar. I can't wait to see what happens when I finally start using After Effects