Just putting an idea out there

[godix]

This was something that we originally wanted to do with ProjeKct Life; it turned out to be unwieldy... then it died

Anything to be learned in it's demise or is it that typical too many creators/project head lost interest death?

Pretty interesting (depending on the theme chosen, could be more or less interesting).

Any suggestions on what would be more rather than less interesting?

Revenge: couple in love or family member or close friends; death of one of the pair by someone else; grieving by the survivor; survivor seeks revenge (could be shown training or honing his/her skills); survivor searches for killer; survivor finds killer and exacts revenge; either relief at getting revenge or sorrow at becoming a killer himself/herself.

I'm not sure this idea would work with different series and characters each segment. It'd be very hard to keep it vauge enough to work with different segments yet specific enough to not confuse the audience beyond belief. Either way, revenge just isn't a theme I personally would be interested in. I saw Kill Bill. I didn't like it that much. I have no interest in creating something like it.

This sounds pretty interesting, id be interested in joining if this ever got off the ground. But id have to be a backup for a while and fill in the obvious dropouts

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that. None of the projects I've headed before had vital segments so if someone dropped out it wasn't a major deal. Backup editors, yeah, I'll need to plan for that if I do this idea. Thanks for pointing that out.

[CrackTheSky]

If handled correctly by all the participants, I think this could turn out to be an incredibly cool MEP (I especially like the "cities" idea you threw out there). Don't know if I'd join myself, but I'd LOVE to see it put together successfully.

[Tsunami Jones]

Any suggestions on what would be more rather than less interesting?

Well, for me personally, if you went with love, my interest level would shoot through the floor for wanting to participate. The cities idea would have the opposite effect on me. So, more original themes would have me more interested.

[Streicher]

Will the videos be edited at the same time with everyone getting a certain sub-theme or will they be made one after each other so the next editor can see where the other left off?

[Otohiko]

This was something that we originally wanted to do with ProjeKct Life; it turned out to be unwieldy... then it died

Anything to be learned in it's demise or is it that typical too many creators/project head lost interest death?

Actually that one fell for one main reason: first the lack of activity by the coordinator, then outright disappearance. I guess that's something of an obvious lesson.Technically the project was 70% finished, but the lack of a coordinator - and the (reasonable) unwillingness of others to take over it is what killed it.

In retrospect one thing that irked me slightly is the tendency to slip into action. Not that action is bad, but it's probably a reflection of the sources that much of "life's drama" tended to, somewhere somehow, divert into to hand-to-hand fighting and/or explosions. I was an offender in that to some degree, too.

I'd really like to see an MEP that finally accomplishes something in a serious sense thematically, rather than through sheer flash.

[Scintilla]

Life - Start with birth and move on to youth, teenager, college age, adult, retired, mentally decrepit old, and death

Personally, I've always wanted to see a video to "A Hundred Years" that ran like this, though I know that's probably not quite what you had in mind.

[JaddziaDax]

Life - Start with birth and move on to youth, teenager, college age, adult, retired, mentally decrepit old, and death

Personally, I've always wanted to see a video to "A Hundred Years" that ran like this, though I know that's probably not quite what you had in mind.

lol ive kinda had similar thoughts about that song

[Radical_Yue]

That sounds like it could kick ass...

Me likes the idea...

[godix]

Well, for me personally, if you went with love, my interest level would shoot through the floor for wanting to participate. The cities idea would have the opposite effect on me. So, more original themes would have me more interested.

Love was just there as a simple and obvious example to explain the idea. Me? Do love? Riiiight. I would sooner say nice things about Sammy or appologize to the mods for all the times they have to go behind me deleting posts of me being a dick. Dedicated to my wife is probably the closest I'll ever get to doing a romance. I prefer the unusual so the cities idea would be high on my list unless someone mentions another idea that strikes my interest as much.

Will the videos be edited at the same time with everyone getting a certain sub-theme or will they be made one after each other so the next editor can see where the other left off?

This isn't the telephone project, the deadline would be the same for all segments. Although I'd like for people to show betas and if possible to include things that reflect on each others segments. For example, with the cities idea a feudal era shrine could be inserted into later segments as if it were a historical building, similar to how some American cities have 1700 era colonial buildings in middle of a cities high rise downtown. Perhaps with careful source selection a future tech citizen could have a similar, although advanced, style of clothing as shown in a modern age segment. Maybe a car from an earlier segment drives down the street like it was an old classic. I'm sure there are other ways of tying together the segments if I thought about it. Nothing major and attention drawing of course, just small things in the background that a viewer might think is neat if they caught it.

In retrospect one thing that irked me slightly is the tendency to slip into action.
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I'd really like to see an MEP that finally accomplishes something in a serious sense thematically, rather than through sheer flash.

Hopefully making clear that the segments are meant to directly reflect and advance a central theme rather than stand on their own would cut down on unnecessary action or effects although now that you mention it that'd be something to explicitly spell out in the ground rules.

Personally, I've always wanted to see a video to "A Hundred Years" that ran like this, though I know that's probably not quite what you had in mind.

<a href="http://www.lyrics-top.com/1705-238/Five ... html">This song</a>? I've never heard it although with the lyrics I could see something like my idea to it. Depending on song length it may not make a good MEP though.

Anyway thanks for the feedback guys. Keep it coming, I'm definately getting a clearer idea of how this would need to work and what ground rules would be needed to be successful. Also of note, if someone wants to take this idea and go start their own MEP then feel free. If it's up to me to head this idea then it'll be quite awhile before it starts, assuming I end up doing it at all.

[Infinity Squared]

Hmm, I've thought about actually putting together something along these lines as well, except it was rather more plotcentric (I was thinking of MEPing Anime Academy Heroes but decided it was far too complex, however it followed through with the same idea of pursuing a common goal/theme).

In that same vein, I've thought of a project that would have each track representing a different part of the world. A tragedy or some sort of event leads the world into some combined purpose, and each track shows different anime showing what each of the characters are doing to help out in this global mission. This wasn't exactly the plot I had envisaged for AAH MEP, but pretty close.

Anyway, another idea I had would be something along the lines of a 24 hour theme... the life of a person from their waking moment, through breakfast, lunch and dinner, their school/work life, and their night life, be it they are people who love to go clubbing, or stalk the night as some sort of hero. I had thought of doing a video to this previously, and was thinking of using Clair de Lune (by Debussi (sp?) I think), however that music is probably too short for a MEP.

Out of the ideas you put forward, I definitely like the one that you put the most thought in. Almost like "A History of Anime" so to speak.

I'm definitely interested in participating in something like this, depending on the theme of course, and actually mildly interested as well in heading or helping out in coordinating this if it gets off the ground, but I'm never one to make promises because with my own videos and studio MEPs as well as AMV coordination duties for Manifest, you can say that I'm already stripped for time