What keeps you from quiting an amv?

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:42 am

x_rex30 wrote:If I can't make the video in a few hours. I quit it. lol

quiting is for the weak.. haha.. guess I'm weak.. -_-

fixed

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:44 am

Ha!

The way I don't end up quitting my projects is by constantly telling myself, "you're totally awesome, this video rocks!"

Seriously though, a video must have some goal or a point (whether that be to make it purely random action, or to have a punchline in the joke, it doesn't matter). And you just gotta realise that that point must be reached... Now if you had like some concepts, or new effects or just about any point in your mind which you have pictured happening in the video then that's what you push forward to achieve. What I mean is, say that in the first chorus of your song, you pictured a screen shatter effect mixed with a light source streaming from a fog behind with the main characters connecting fists at the same time, then you aim for that first chorus and make sure the lead up to it is perfect. And once you reached that first sign post you tell yourself, "you're totally awesome, this video rocks!"

Repeat and rinse till the video is done

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:37 am

I just quit... unless I have a group of people waiting for my work and I dont want to turn them down... wich sometimes dosnt even work cause I also have school to consider...

dannydylan · Post by **dannydylan** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:13 am

Usually if i start to think what am i doing, or this is stoopid, i just save my work and then go and do something else. I'll come back a few hours or even days later and think, oh i remember that, and start working on it again. By working in short periods, you don't start becoming tired or bored and usually the video will be the same quality work throughout.

Well thats what i do!

hope it helps!

jubjub2 · Post by **jubjub2** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:11 am

I have a couple of projects that I have on *cough* hold *cough* because editing them was like pulling teeth. It just wasn't fun anymore, and ripping out my har wasn't getting anything done (except making me bald).

However, if you have a clear idea as to what you want to have happen in a video, set aside some time that you know you won't be disturbed or have other distrations and just edit.

If you don't like the ending you have, then try something else. Often, the best solution happens accidentally!

ssj4lonewolf · Post by **ssj4lonewolf** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:48 pm

teh end man i wanna see what comes out of my hard work

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:04 pm

Jasper-Isis. Seriously.

If she tells me to finish stuff, I just finish stuff.

Otherwise, I tend to edit videos in a very short space of time so I don't really get a chance to slack off - by the time I get lazy, the video is done.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:23 pm

Otohiko wrote:Jasper-Isis. Seriously.

If she tells me to finish stuff, I just finish stuff.

I've got my own group of people that hit me over the head with a verbal stick when I'm slacking.

Obligatory Boobies would never have been finished without my wife contantly telling me to add more bouncing boobies.
Burning Love would never have been completed without Aiel Ileia constantly telling me to finish.
And so on.

Most of my finished projects are actually done as a way to avoid the thing that I should 'really' be working on. So, while I should have been working on my dramatic artistic revolutionary Mafia video, I was actually working on a fanservice vid.

Mostly: it's fun to have a finished project. I just try to remember that.

Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:35 pm

madbunny wrote:Mostly: it's fun to have a finished project. I just try to remember that.

yeah i think that's a big influence in trying to finish my stuff

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:42 pm

jubjub2 wrote: If you don't like the ending you have, then try something else. Often, the best solution happens accidentally!

heh...yup. I know how that goes. Most of my best work is accidental (but it's getting better, I am starting to edit really good sections on purpose).
...I really need to get going on my current project...
but it's only... erm... 4 months late...