Quality or Quantity?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:42 pm

I like to think I'm neither

Seriously.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:48 pm

anneke wrote:Now to my other point of discussion... Does working on 'Quality' hurt the AMV world? I've seen far to many people who spend so much time on a video, and then they send out that one video for over a year to every contest out there that they can. They lack the Quantity to enter every contest and this ofcourse cause other problems within the community (such as Trolling).

No, greed, lack of restraint, and attention whoring hurt the AMV world.

But as far as I've seen, most of the people who spend lots of time on videos don't troll the ones they have. So I guess I don't see the problem.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:02 pm

Scintilla wrote:
anneke wrote:Now to my other point of discussion... Does working on 'Quality' hurt the AMV world? I've seen far to many people who spend so much time on a video, and then they send out that one video for over a year to every contest out there that they can. They lack the Quantity to enter every contest and this ofcourse cause other problems within the community (such as Trolling).
No, greed, lack of restraint, and attention whoring hurt the AMV world.

But as far as I've seen, most of the people who spend lots of time on videos don't troll the ones they have. So I guess I don't see the problem.

Oh boy, you should have seen what happened a year before your join date.

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:14 pm

Anyone who says quantity over quality needs a head check.

Who would want a thousand shitty videos being pumped out?

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:21 pm

Quantity lasts, quality fades.

/devils advocate

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:50 pm

At this point it's way more beneficial for me to aim for quantity. I have too many video ideas started in the past that absolutely need to get fleshed out and removed from my plate. That isn't to say I don't want them to be good, but I'm certainly not sitting around pretending I'm making a universal opus that will end the need for further videos. Simply the process of cranking out average videos gives me a better sense of where I need to go that will eventually lead to quality. Typically "average" for me results in people saying they loved it, but 90% of the people here wouldn't give a second look cause they only talk about the heavyweights.

I typically don't ever make anything beyond the "this song would go nice with this anime" approach. If I do a good job editing it, then good for me. I'm never thinking of some epic monster that will appeal to fans of all ages, and I rarely consider using any songs that are popular. To some people a popular song + popular anime alone means quality, but not to me.

As Beo says, quality is only such for a few months if even a year, eventually what was considered amazing will completely fly past the more jaded next generation of editors/fans. Quality also falls prey to egos, people don't want to praise a really well done video cause it makes them look bad by comparison.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:58 pm

Ole' Zarxy spent 10 months on a Tetris vid which should be screaming quality, but it doesn't do shit for me in the way of entertainment. Add's prolly made more AMVs than anyone, and I don't like his stuff either. So if we go by my tastes, neither matters. Fun is the primary factor, baby. You can have the foxiest looking sack of ass on the planet earth, but if she just lies there doin' nothing when you're doing the linen tango overdrive on her, she's not worth the $6 of carbon atoms she's made of.

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:00 pm

Quality > Quantity

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:01 pm

By the way, Anneke... you're a pretentious fucker to prompt a thread like this as if you're some glory-bound college professor. I won't hesitate to say that yaoi is a crime against decent nature as well.

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:22 pm

I attempted to start an intellgent conversation, no crime in that. Sorry if I sound pretentious, and I will not be bated by your feable attempt to start a flame war.

You are obviouslly uneducated about Yaoi and should do some reading.
May I suggest: http://www.yaoicon.com/whatisyaoi.html

-Anneke