Tasteful FX in AMVs

[requiett]

[CHAMELEON_D_H]

Yes. FX can be done tastefully in AMVs. FX should be used to enhance the normal "Cuts" , which are the base of AMVing and editing in general.
In El Generalissimo effects are used to make the "old movie atmosphere". Without these effects, the AMV was another nice Audio \ Video combo + Lipsync. The effects made it much stronger, thus more fun to watch.

Effects in Nightmare creat an associative instead of normal transitions. You see a one thing, that eveolves to something else using masks. The word "ADAM" creates "MOM" and "DAD". These words become the real mom & dad's images, and so on.

There are many other good examples, and too many other bad examples.

[Koopiskeva]

Yes. Drugs.

[Pyle]

Chya.

Lightning bolts ftw.

[Arigatomina]

Yes. I define tasteful as the opposite of gaudy, so tasteful is NOT: so grande and smack you upside the head noticeable that only little old ladies and six year old girls would think it's appropriate to display in public, so sparkly but cheap that you can pick it up at the Dollar Store and melt it with a lighter, so covered in recognizable brand names that anyone wearing it into a fancy restaurant would get sniffs and possibly be tossed back out the door before reaching his table, so expected and overdone that it makes the piercing fanatics and pink-haired mohawk crew look original and classy. Now take the idea of gaudy accessories and apply it to effects in videos. Tasteful employment is the opposite.

How to encourage tasteful employment? Pay people to make what you want them to make. Target those who thrive and adapt according to the positive feedback they receive and tell them how much more appreciation they'd get if they toned down the guadiness and aimed for classy more. Flame the heck out of the AE geniuses who are too wild to know better than to experiment and too young/blind to realize their effects are akin to costume jewelry rather than the Liz diamonds they're aiming for. Or practice tasteful effects yourself until you develop a following of new editors who pick up your style and spread it until it's so popular even the old stickinthemuds start trying it when no one's looking.

You'd have to spread the idea of 'tasteful effects' the way all other amv-fads are spread. Make it popular, and make anything else unpopular. We already have a forum-concensus that gaudy effects should not be popular. It's just a matter of making everyone else on the site agree to the same thing and getting everyone who preaches that tasteful effects are the only worthwile effects to practice the same. Nothing can ruin a campaign like having the spokesman tell others to do something he can't or won't do himself.

That said, I like gaudy sometimes because I'm bored by tasteful sometimes. It depends on the vid and my mood.

[CHAMELEON_D_H]

What about MADs? It's a great way to get an epileptic seizure.

[requiett]

Yes. Drugs.

I agree.

[NMEisMIA]

But koop doesn't do drugs.

[Streicher]

MADs? Tasteful effects? It seems you only know the very best ones.
Go watch some random MADs and cringe how tasteless and out of place effects like Shatter and Lensflare can look.

The effects should match the concept and mood of the video. When the concept of the video is to improve your drug trip while watching, nothing speaks against shifting colors and LSD-simulating effects.


Something that bothers me myself, is seeing otherwise good amvs that become totally cheesy because the editor thought "OMG there's a piano in the song. I TOTALLY HAVE TO MAKE PIANO KEYS!!!111"

And some other stuff like very foreseeable beatsyncing on every drumrolll. But that's actually a topic for itself.

[Warheart]

And some other stuff like very foreseeable beatsyncing on every drumrolll. But that's actually a topic for itself.