Good AMVs Bad AMVs, Is there such a thing?

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Fri May 06, 2005 7:33 pm

thread wrote:Good AMVs Bad AMVs, Is there such a thing?

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Fri May 06, 2005 7:49 pm

Rozard wrote:
FoxJones wrote:
IcyCloud wrote:..get this hysterical fangirl screaming reaction just because "OMG Sepiroth" came onscreen is a bit disheartening. Especially when you then see them sit silently through something truly great like Urban Ragnarok.
Bad example here. When I first saw Urban Ragnarok I was also sitting very still and silently throughout the whole AMV. It's just that my jaw was on my lap at the time...
Well, what IcyCloud meant is that they weren't interested in the AMV. I know, I was there at JACON this year when it was screening, and there was hardly any reaction, people were talking to each other and not watching the video because it wasn't an audience pandering one.

Live action Sailor Moon got a big "WTF?!"

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Fri May 06, 2005 7:56 pm

Pie Row Maniac wrote:
thread wrote:Good AMVs Bad AMVs, Is there such a thing?
I don't know

He knows

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madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:29 pm

To answer the original question:

Yes, there are good and bad anime. The problem is that 'good' and 'bad' can be highly subjective. I'm sure we can all think of examples of videos with horrific visual quality, that was still fundamentally a good video, especially if you go back and look at some of the popular ones from a few years ago. Plainly however there are many videos that I think we can all agree plainly suck, on every level. Sometimes effort does not equal quality, or entertainment.

As for how your video compares to other videos, unless you're directly competing, who cares? Same deal for people that only watch videos of certain anime, or artists.. it really all comes down to just putting anime to music. Some of us are better at it than others, ideally we all want to improve to the point that we can more closely match our vision within the medium.

Reasons I watch: Random, I like the artist, Op exchange, or I'm at work.
Reasons I Edit: Guilt, I'm at work, or I feel like it.

Hopefully someone will like what I made.. but as long as *I'm* diggin' it, that's ok too.

-ssj2gohan- · Post by **-ssj2gohan-** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:45 am

years ago ppl here might actually watch my dbz amvs and definately rate them higher (originality mostly)

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:33 pm

Pie Row Maniac wrote:
thread wrote:Good AMVs Bad AMVs, Is there such a thing?
I don't know

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:14 pm

There are good and bad amvs, it's just a matter of defining them. You have a good amv, or you don't, or, in the case of bad amv's, you have two types:
1) the kind that just really suck
2) *the best way to preview an anime in my opinion* A fan made trailer with background music disguised as a poorly edited amv.

FoxJones · Post by **FoxJones** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:02 am

..or more like there are "bad " and "good" AMVs, but "bad" ones also (could) have fans and "good" ones have someone that hates it. It's just a matter of viewers' taste.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:56 am

Pie Row Maniac wrote:
thread wrote:Good AMVs Bad AMVs, Is there such a thing?
I don't know

Holy crap, I'm buying and watching Cowboy Bebop now (seriously).

I pretty much agree that there's going to be, in some cases atleast, a fan bias in the judgment of a video. Someone who detest pop music and shojuo anime isn't going to likey find a Sailor Moon video to a Britney Spears song that favorable. Does that mean they shouldn't be able to see a good video despite what they think of the criteria? Of course not, but some just couldn't. It's like so many guys couldn't see a yaoi video as "good", no matter how hard they try or how great the video was executed...because it goes back to, as said, the finished product getting judged, not all the work you actually put into it.

Of course, this isn't always true. I definitely think though, people who just watch videos are going to judge based on anime/song composition more than technical aspects than someone who edits themselves and actually knows what it is to put work and effort into the creation of them. But eh, I can live with that.

Oh, and to answer your question, yes....definitely yes.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:25 pm

Then, as in movies, there are AMV's that are so bad that they become good. *cough* AMV4000 *cough*

madbunny wrote: Reasons I Edit: Guilt, I'm at work, or I feel like it.

Damn you and your schoolteachery ways.