**VCR-EDITED** Akira - "Tourniquet," Marilyn Manso

[Dugan]

I'll be releasing a few of my old AMVs over the next few weeks. The first is a VCR-edited one that I made in 1999. When making this, I did not have access to a state-of-the-art computer, professional-grade software, or even good AMVs to learn from. I did not own my own equipment or even my own copy or Akira. Yet I tried for quite a bit.

In fact, I began by extensively studying Marilyn Manson's video to this song. That means I watched it two or three times on TV and then played it over and over in my head. I took note of the editing style, the nature and arrangement of its images, and even the color palette. How much of that could I recreate using footage from Akira? I also read Angelynx's Worms With Angel Wings, a song-by-song analysis of the Antichrist Superstar album. It made me I think about "Tourniquet's" place in the album's flow, and I designed the AMV accordingly.

In the end I memorized the movie, then cut the AMV in 4.5 hours in the back room of a video store.

The name of the AMV is: One F**ked Up Dude