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There was something I felt was important to record in my journal, but now I can't remember what. This is why I try to record such things.
2009-05-26 19:44:41
Hrm...
Well I've come to a bit of a decision regarding AMVing. First, I really need to find a new job, so if anyone knows of a place where I can take potshots at Advent Children all day and get paid at least $20 an hour for it, my resume is ready to go. This is further proof of how much I loathe making AMVs, in that I'd rather job search and go on interviews than sit down and edit. It's pretty bad.
Ah! I think what I wanted to write here was regarding ethical editing. Let's say there's a rather famous AMV out there to a song I want to use in my own AMV, but I'm a bad editor and so would love to appropriate that famous AMV's editing decisions (giving due credit, of course, for the inspiration). Something tells me this would be frowned upon, even if I were to obtain permission beforehand from the editor. Still, from purely an experimentation standpoint, I would be curious as to how fast people caught on to what I did and whether - somehow - it would be a method for learning how to become a better editor.
I mean, I'm sitting here looking around at all these talented editors and thinking "Hey, what if I attempted to recreate one of their AMVs using a different (but similar) series? How much would I learn about what they did if I tried to copy them?" Probably a lot, I'm thinking. Might make an interesting multi-editor project - have scenes from well-known AMVs duplicated by other editors using other series. Could be quite interesting (and frustrating). Heck, it might already exist. A few people have duplicated the intros to certain anime series...why not AMVs themselves?
Because it's not THEIR'S to copy!! You can't go around stealing other people's creativity and taking credit for it! That's wrong!
Last time I checked that's pretty much what AMV editors do every time they touch their keyboard. :| And hey, for all I know it's already been done.
Also, the fan on my graphics card is getting ready to die, and it sounds like a hyper hamster is running like crazy on his wheel in my computer. Reminds me of that new car commercial with the hamsters. Or are they gerbils? Don't recall.
Oh yes, and ALSO I finally got to show off my lovely little Footloose segment - aka my most favorite thing created ever - and elicited the reaction "Hell YEAH!" so that was pretty sweet. I still doubt it will ever be made public, but maybe if I can figure out a way to get it into AWA's short attention span theater thingy, I can finally share my insanity with the world. Well...more of it, anyways. -
No wait, it IS AB '08 all over again
2009-05-24 22:17:45
They've gone and swiped my AMV and plastered it on the Tube...AGAIN. Whhhhyyyyyy?? At least this year there's not some hand-cam assault on it. :|
Oh, and this is GREAT! I ...wait, I could make a banner out of this...MWAHAHAHA. wait, can I? It contains questionable language. Ok, ok, so here's what my twisted, AMV.org-t-shirt-loving brain came up with last night at Anime Boston (yes I wore my t-shirt, two days! And had several interesting conversations as the result of): Screw 'Tube, I'm going .ORG!
:D
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AB Recap v. 2009
2009-05-24 21:33:01
So I'm back from AB, this time without an award in hand and thankfully without suffering any terrible mishap and/or getting horrifically sick. In fact the differences between this year and last year were so dramatic - last year being a feverish blur to this day - that I realized last night that the reason seeing my AMV in a competition seemed like such an otherworldly experience was because I was not really all "there" when it happened.
This has made me wonder what it's like to actually experience that sort of thing in person, as it were. To that end I sat through most of the AMV showing thinking "Damn it, XII blows this all away" and, in essence, attempting to convince myself to make another AMV. One that I already ditched, at that. It's quite ridiculous, when one looks at the matter logically. Attempting to explain the matter to a companion, I put it this way:
"Here's the thing. Even if I really got down to work and made progress, I could put in 8 hours a week tops on a video. Let's say the deadline is August 1, that's a measly 64 hours of editing. Not enough time! That's possibly ONE QUARTER of an AMV done! Even if I somehow edited for 16 hours a week (an impossibility) for two months, that's still only 128 hours, a little more than HALF an AMV! It's impossible!"
And imagine my going on about this for approximately another hour and half. This is why I prefer not to become engaged in AMV discussions in person, I go off the deep end.
In any case, AMV competition this year was ok. Nothing blew me away (or most people away, from what I saw), but I didn't feel like gouging my eyes out, either. My ears, however, were assaulted most terribly when I wound up being seated approximately 15 feet away from the speakers at the competition. I think I sat through almost two hours of videos with one finger in my right ear. The people next to me actually left after 10 minutes b/c they couldn't take it. @_@ Definitely had a negative impact on my viewing experience. The good news, however, is that I got to see the winners again from a safe distance, and DEFINITELY enjoyed them far more at that point.
Speaking of which,Takeout was well received in the AMV overflow showing. People laughed in the right places and they were properly shocked/appalled/entertained by the ending. In my book this proves it's not too "cerebral" to be shown in front of an audience, however I will say I personally did not like it in this setting. Not at all. Definitely works better as a stand-alone video. It's not like other comedy videos and it was quite obviously doing its own thing for its own reasons - something that to my mind seems the antithesis of what a competition AMV should be doing. But hey, it still got a little time on the big screen in front of a packed room and I didn't hear crickets chirping at its end, so it's all good in my book.
This 2009 convention makes Drift history as being the first one I got more than 6 hours of sleep each night at. It was amazing!! I've got to try it again some time.
So now...what do I do? Attempt to make another AMV? Which one? XII? YCDTTAC? (aka yickedtack) Something else? *throttles self* -
Wooo!!
2009-05-20 19:18:44
My baaannner came up when I got into my journal. That's always cool. I haven't seen one of my banners for a long time. ^_^
I am definitely wired for AB this weekend and am determined to have a blast. Looking forward to the AMV panel(s) as always - this my second year of sitting in the room not suffering raging jealousy at the lucky bastards who can get away with calling themselves "real" AMV editors. YES!! I AM ONE OF YOU, NOW! MWAHAHAHA I was always so...consumed with rage at those panels. But, no more...though if I never manage to make another AMV that is certainly a possibility. Makes me want to incite a big group hug session for all the struggling AMVers in the audience. I've been there, and if I can make it to the end of an AMV...well anyone can. Oh yes!
Clearly I am way too psyched about this...helps that my high-speed Internet is (sort of) back. Suddenly I'm not being forced into early anime retirement by lack of access to all the latest and greatest from Japan.
*GROUP HUG* :D
Also, I need to make good on my DSL and download a whole heapin' helpin' of AMVs... -
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2009-05-19 10:24:50
I think I'm being harassed on the Tube, but I'm not sure. Do weird comments by people claiming to know me on some level count as harassment? I'm not even that annoyed, but I'm getting the impression this person maybe wants to annoy me...but I can't tell b/c I just don't care enough. heh, that's pretty bad...unless they're not trying to annoy me...but again, it's all so under the radar I'm almost completely incapable of determining this.
I AM going to Anime Boston! To hell with financial ruin. I also am determined to have a good time and am regretting very much I can't make the editor's dinner. Not regretting very much that Takeout didn't make the finals, however, because as I said before now I feel like I can go ahead and enjoy the con. Last year was a total train wreck b/c of 'Bustin. Not to mention being horrifically sick.
Speaking of which, the Takeout curse possibly continues. Last year I was sick at the convention, this year I've gotten sick BEFORE the convention. Hopefully whatever I've got clears up by Friday. :( *cough cough cough* *sneeze*
How to ID Drift at Anime Boston? I'll be the one with the animemusicvideos.org t-shirt on. At least on Friday and maybe Saturday. I wish it fit better. Maybe I should shrink it first.
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