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2008-07-14 22:27:49
I don't want to ever have to rush a video to completion again.
I did it last year for "Restless", and the result wasn't THAT bad.
But then I had to do it again this year for "A Raven's Pride", and this time, I was decidedly not pleased with the result.
It would seem from the star ratings that the general viewing audience agrees with me.
It wasn't always this way. When I first started making AMVs, I just made them whenever I made them, and submitted them to whatever conventions happened to have their deadlines coming up. I felt no need to rush... plus I had more free time back then anyway, still being in college and all that.
But that's changed. Now I actually know which conventions I'll be going to well in advance, and so those take priority (because nothing beats getting a good reaction from a gi-freakin'-gantic con audience, much less *winning* and being there to see it happen).
Plus, the actuarial exams happen on a set schedule, and they take mad priority over AMVing. The world won't care that there are only two weeks between the May exam dates and the deadlines for the summer cons I visit -- I HAVE to pass those exams.
Still, unless it's a case where I know I'll be attending the con, I don't think rushing to get a video done is worth it -- both because of the sleep loss and the reduced quality of the finished video -- just to make a deadline.
And that is why I probably won't be entering AWA's Professional contest this year.
... of course, deadlines CAN be a powerful motivator, and motivation is something I could use more of these days. But there has to be some balance, somewhere between never working on anything and making sloppy rush jobs. - @Kaysow 2008-07-01 06:29:42 At least you finally realize it. Now make some more original stuff. :P
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Scintilla's AMV Editing Tip of the Day, 6/22/08
2008-06-22 21:49:24
You don't have to synch something to every single beat in the music.
But if you've got something BIG happening in the VIDEO, be it a ginormous explosion, a Makoto Shinkai sunburst, or a money-shot Disney kiss, it had better be synched to SOMEthing in the music.
I really only realized to put this in words a few days ago, and I'm happy to report that a lot of people who sent videos to AnimeNEXT this year seemed to understand this concept. -
NEW VIDEO UP
2008-06-22 01:25:18
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=88974 is the announcement thread
:O - 5 years and still going...! 2008-06-20 19:09:38 For the first time ever today, somebody at a con recognized me just from my black Aquiline Studios T-shirt.
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