Well, the usual suspects are stirring up acrimony, I see. For my part, I'll just submit the same advice I've given to a few people in my reviews and leave it at that.
Where bumpers are concerned:
1. Put your bumper at the END of the video, and save the bragging for later. Until we've seen what you can do, we the viewers want to watch the video itself, not the bumper. Even if you've already made a good AMV, you'll always have first-time viewers, so you can't count on people to appreciate your visual boasting unless they've first seen the quality of your work.
The only decent credits bumper I ever saw at the beginning of a music video was a custom piece on an Invader Zim video which ran with a voice-over of Zim taking orders from his superiors, and this is the exception that proves the rule: the bumper was about the video itself more than the people who were making it. If you absolutely must say anything about yourself at the beginning, I recommend saying it in those little captions down in the corner the way MTV and VHS1 do.
2. See to it that any audio you have in the bumper is consistent with the overall tone of the video. If you're doing something to Enya, for example, your viewers will not appreciate hearing a sudden blast of Iron Maiden in the bumper. Likewise, playing a nice romantic piece by the Carpenters right after you've screamed your punk-rocker viewers' ears off with Jon Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" will probably creep them out. If the bumper must have sound at all, I recommend rolling something instrumental from the AMV's song, as was done in More Than Toast's "Mother" video.
27 second intro...too long?
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