Kionon wrote:Is this guy a columnist?
I hope for damn sure no one considers him a real journalist. He doesn't mention this site, he doesn't mention contests, he apparently hasn't spoken to any creators, and he completely ignores videos that contain original material, such as many of EK's works.
Someone needs to go back to Journalism 101.
I believe he would be considered a columnist though he just seems to be a general questions guy for ANN when people weant to ask things.
That said I'm actually glad he didn't bring up the org.
In lieu of all the copyright fiascos and his long discussion how how we violate copyright laws I think it's a good thing he didn't point to this site because a relation would be drawn by people who read it. Furthermore, ANN draws so many hits per day that I'm certain it wouldn't be too long before the wrong person read it.
That aside I really have to disagree with a lot of what he says. Though I do agree that most videos on the tube are bad I don't feel that that's entierly representative of AMVS as a whole being of poor quality.
More importantly I really disagere with his statement taht AMVs are inherently uncreative. By that definition, writers for movies are uncreative (insert joke regarding cinema here) when they take from a book because all the material is there allready. Just because the sources existed prior does not therby make any sort of amalgamation of them a bland sum.
Secondly I don't care of rhis allusion just saying Music Y + Anime X = Video Z and that is not creative because the idea is obvious. Soem ideas are not depending on the respects you look at it from and more importantly a video is not created just by the idea of the two sources. The editing technique and style and the way it is portrayed creates the larger picture from which the video is judged by.
By that logic all videos using the same music and anime are all equal in their creativity because of from what they were drawn from.