what is considered an original idea?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:04 pm

We are the collective mind.
Originality is futile.
Your AMV will be assimilated.
We will add whatever distinctiveness it might have to our own.

Yeah, I guess that sums up my ideas on originality. Which is why I usually give 9's and 10's...because it doesn't really matter

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:10 pm

trythil wrote:We are the collective mind.
Originality is futile.
Your AMV will be assimilated.
We will add whatever distinctiveness it might have to our own.

Yeah, I guess that sums up my ideas on originality. Which is why I usually give 9's and 10's...because it doesn't really matter

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godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:50 pm

I ask two questions with simple yes/no answers: Have I seen this idea before? If I heard just the song could I guess with high accuracy which anime it was paired with? These two questions determine if I give originality a high score or a low one.

I don't care how well it's done, a Linkin Park song to Cowboy Bebop is not original. I may give it a 10 in everything else, it may be the best damned linkin park/cowboy bebop AMV around, I may even go so far as to claim it is the best video I've ever seen but I'm not going to consider it an original idea. Along with this goes the style of the video. If someone makes an effects video that makes me think 'Hey, he stole that from Euphoria' I'm going to consider it an unoriginal idea even if it's done well and uses a different anime/song.

Similarly, if I hear a song on the radio and go 'I bet there will be several AMVs to XYZ anime within a month' I'd consider it unoriginal even if it's the very first AMV to use that combo. Certain combos are just so blatently obvious I can't call it original.

Once I have these questions done with then I go to other criteria. Did the linkin park/cowboy bebop use the same clips everyone else used or did they find other source? Was it a Euphoria knockoff the entire time or was it a few effects here and there? Was that blatently obvious song/anime combo taken in a direction I didn't expect?

The main exception to all this is parodies. IE if a video is making fun of all the countless other DBZ fight videos then I consider it much more original.

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:59 pm

trythil wrote:We are the collective mind.
Originality is futile.
Your AMV will be assimilated.
We will add whatever distinctiveness it might have to our own.

Yeah, I guess that sums up my ideas on originality. Which is why I usually give 9's and 10's...because it doesn't really matter

Assimilate THIS!

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... d_id=28493

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:50 pm

trythil wrote:We are the collective mind.
Originality is futile.
Your AMV will be assimilated.

And don't forget:

All your idea are belong to us.
You are on the way to conformity.
You have no chance to stand out make your time.

And by the way, it would appear that ".." doesn't work in URLs.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:51 pm

Webster's defines "original" as:
1 : of, relating to, or constituting an origin or beginning : INITIAL <the original part of the house>
2 a : not secondary, derivative, or imitative b : being the first instance or source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is or can be made
3 : independent and creative in thought or action : INVENTIVE

Synonym see also NEW

Antanym see also Cliche

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:21 pm

technicaly you cant say what an original idea is because as soon as you do then it no longer becomes one. hmmm

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:05 am

thanks for all the replies.

Pwolf

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:48 am

Going of what Rozard said, don't based originality of genre either... I've seen romance amvs get reduced scores simply due to the fact it was a romance amv

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Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:23 pm

yea, i've seen the same thing, "i gave you low originality cuase i hate romance". which is why i don't think of the reviewing system as anything good, except for good feedback. even then, 90% of all ops i get are useless feedback.

Pwolf