Amv theory 101

[Kai Stromler]

With respect to an AMV, anime is simply a bunch of pattern-organized lines and color palettes with a sequential order as delivered. If you want to use the art in roughly the same ways, to accomplish roughly the same objectives, as the original creators, you can do that. If you want to do something completely different, you can do that too.

The only difficulty with the second path is that you often have to destroy or remove your audience's expectations if you want them to "get" it. AMV audiences usually implicitly expect AMVs to be primarily connected to the source anime in some fashion, and may not immediately recognize that they're sensical and coherent when they're primarily connected to the source music or to some other concept originating with the creator. It's not easy, but if you concentrate on the video you want to make instead of the video that others may expect of you given your video source, it should be all right.

--K

[godix]

You can also make your AMVs orally pleasure you and fix you a submarine sandwich afterward.

Depends on the video. I tried to get I Wish I Was A Lesbian to orally pleasure me once. It slapped me then yelled 'So you want something to go down on you? TRY THIS FANBOY!' and crashed me computer. Once I was finally able to get the computer working again I found it deleted all 50 gig of my furry porn. So the lesson of the day is that you need to pick your videos with care, don't go for the ones that are more perverted than you are.

[Apeotheosis]

You can also make your AMVs orally pleasure you and fix you a submarine sandwich afterward.

Fhwhat?

As many have mentioned on here, creativity is great, but if you can't project your ideas correctly, the video could be affected by it. From what I've seen, it seems that most good editors started off with fairly simple plots for their video(s) that included a basic song that matched well. Could it all be a coincidence? Possibly, but overall I'd say it's better to start off easy and learn from all your mistakes before you try to tackle a great idea....but then again, I DO ride the special bus, so who am I to talk?

[requiett]

In an Amv is it possible to make the anime fit your music and the story you want to tell with it and go outside what whatever plot the anime actually follows or is it usually better to find a song that clearly represents and fits with the anime.

People are such whiny cater-demanding babies. They want to watch something ORIGINAL, but still familiar enough to not get isolated from it. Pansies. God forbid you should enjoy something unknown to you. That "spoiler" arguement doesn't hold any water in my book either. As for using the anime with a different intention than its original concept, it's obivously been done. I can say I've done it several times. And if you're too afraid to experience the "underground scene," why watch anime in the first place?

[requiett]

And by "you," I'm referring to anyone in general.

[Warheart]

In an Amv is it possible to make the anime fit your music and the story you want to tell with it and go outside what whatever plot the anime actually follows or is it usually better to find a song that clearly represents and fits with the anime.

People are such whiny cater-demanding babies. They want to watch something ORIGINAL, but still familiar enough to not get isolated from it. Pansies. God forbid you should enjoy something unknown to you. That "spoiler" arguement doesn't hold any water in my book either. As for using the anime with a different intention than its original concept, it's obivously been done. I can say I've done it several times. And if you're too afraid to experience the "underground scene," why watch anime in the first place?

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