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I'm laaaaame.
2007-04-22 20:52:13
I must apologize to the world.
I'm sorry I had such a freak out over AMVs and how I'm not very good at making them evidentally and I cried to the world about it with a journal post.
I am going to take this opportunity to get better at AMVs even though all I have is Windows Movie Maker.
But I'm kind of sad that there are so many rules people have to follow when making AMVS. Well, not rules so much, just "things that make good AMVs."
Where's the originality in that? We might as well give 1s in the originality category if everyone uses the same formula for AMVs. I don't know many of the rules, but I know most of the ones I have heard I don't want to follow.
Like someone just told me about a "no seether" rule. What is up with that?
So what if people don't like them. So what if their songs have been used too many times, which I might doubt to be the case. I better check on that one.
Okay, there is a fair amount. But really, just because someone said "no seether AMVs on this site" means I really have to follow it?
I don't think so. If I make an AMV to a Seether song, I am going to post it here. And if I get yelled at and flamed for "No Seether!" then so be it.
It's time the "rules" are thrown out anyways! ;) -
Holy crap
2007-04-20 23:37:46
If it weren't for the little "New Journal Entries" on the front page, I'm sure no one would have even looked twice at my whiny little journal post about how no one likes my video.
I was shocked when I logged back on tonight to see that people actually wrote me private messages about it and everyone.
I'm pretty positive most of your messages were meant to be sincere, but my brain is in attack mode right now, so I think I took most of them as hostile at first so bare with me here.
First of all, YouTube and the people there have been both very kind to me and very very mean to me as well. I've had lots of flaming over there, so I'm used to it. What took me so off guard about this site is the nit-picking.
Over at YouTube, my videos and the videos I judged weren't looked at second by second as technical problems or digital effects, but as videos as a whole that conveyed a message or said something about an anime or a character..
Trust me, none of my stars are rated as fives over there. I think the best I have is a three and a half, which I can live with. Because I know over there people are giving me honest opinions and not just looking at my AMV as a whole instead individual transitions, effects, and clips placed at a certain time.
When I watch a video, I don't look and see that at 1:48 this person used a certain digital effect. I guess I better stop giving opinions on peoples videos because I don't judge them technically nor do I judge any video harshly.
To me, when I read some of the quick comments or opinions people have left for me, it makes me feel like I should have uploaded a perfect video, and the fact that I am a newbie at AMVs and make these horrible mistakes offends people to no end that they wasted their time watching a horribly flawed AMV like mine.
I use any free DVD ripper I can get my hands on. If it leaves a watermark in the corner of my clip I don't care, nor I didn't think it would make people freak out so much. I've seen some amazing AMVs that have watermarks on them, one reason why I don't understand why I am getting flammed so much for it.
I use Windows Movie Maker. I go through so much grief with the piece of crap and I don't care. It's free. I don't want to pay for anything else because I can't afford it. I can't affort to pay for a DVD ripper and I can't afford to pay for a video studio that is better than WMM. Is that so wrong?
Yes, I do want to get better. But obviously I can't get any better because I use crappy stuff and can't afford to use anything better.
Well fine, I suck at making AMVs. I'll accept that now.
I appreciate everyone who sent me a message saying don't give up and that opinions are meant to help me improve. Well I can't improve with the tools I have right now.
Right now my only reason to keep making AMVs is to get better, which I am not doing, my newest Sasuke AMV proves that with flying colors.
So I got all dramatic and said I'm never going to make AMVs again. Which right now, is still standing a little bit true. Windows Movie Maker isn't getting me anywhere and won't take me anywhere better, because it sucks. And since I won't pay for a better studio, all my AMVs will suck because of it.
Now I am just repeating myself. Now I feel a little better.
I'm a human being and all I wanted was for one person to like one of my AMVs but it doesn't look very good for getting that still. I like them, so that's all that matters, right?
Wow this is long. I'm surprised if anyone will give me the time of day now.
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I guess this isn't the right place for me.
2007-04-20 17:56:14
I should have stuck with YouTube.
Reviewers there gave people the benefit of the doubt.
I didn't realize that in order to post a "good" or "acceptable" AMV on www.animemusicvideos.org you had to be a professional AMV maker with the best DVD rippers, video creation programs, and such.
Here I am, a college girl who makes an AMV once and awhile with good old free Window's Movie Maker. Heaven forbid I taint all the other fantastic AMVs on this site with the crappy videos I make.
And after spending hours downloading and giving high ranking opinions to videos where I expect no opinion in return, I get some back only being told how there's really nothing going right in my videos.
Of course, I am well aware opinions are personal and everyone is entitled to them and I shouldn't get so worked up because of them, I guess it's hard when you are constantly told your AMVs are crap.
This day probably ended my AMV making days, since I won't devote my life to making masterpieces because I have neither the time nor the talent, I'm not going to even bother anymore because I'll I will produce is more crappy AMV that give this site a bad name probably.
There, I don't feel better, but I have whined and bitched sufficiently.
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