AMVs brought up on ANN

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:45 pm

godix wrote:
Fall_Child42 wrote:You know all of those same complaints can be put to Movies T.V. Music. and just about anything else produced for mass consumption.
Give me 5 minutes and I could find a rant about how TV is mindless pap, how rap is nothing but bitches and hos and gangsters, how hollywood produces total crap, etc. And for the most part those rants would be right. Just because AMVs aren't the only thing that don't often show creativity doesn't change the fact that they don't.

I agree Whole heartedly with that, the real question here is why IS there a suppression of creativity?

How has everything been made so mediocre? and more importantly ... how do we fix it?

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:46 pm

Were apparently harmless. Which is to say unimportant, which is wrong cause i do know a professional editor that made amvs and will continue to make them as soon as he has the time from all his other editing.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:47 pm

Fall_Child42 wrote:How has everything been made so mediocre? and more importantly ... how do we fix it?

Destroy everything so that all is fresh and new again.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:52 pm

Isn't the act of editing itself creative? Reconstitution is still creation. I would argue even if what you produce isn't good, it's still creative. Perhaps good videos are more creative than bad ones, but creative still the same. I think a better word would be originality. I admit, I'm a sucker for certain types of amvs, tv shows, movies, etc. I want creativity within a context. Originality can be taken too far. Plenty of so-called "experimental" videos just bore me to death.

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:31 pm

Fall_Child42 wrote:I agree Whole heartedly with that, the real question here is why IS there a suppression of creativity?

How has everything been made so mediocre? and more importantly ... how do we fix it?

Not to start a philosophical argument but it's because contrary to popular belief humanity in general isn't all that creative. Every now and then there is an absolute genius who comes along and makes something really and truly new then everyone else just modifies what that genius did and calls that originality. As for fixing it, you don't. It's just how humans are wired and that's not even a bad thing. Your typical backyard grill required one genius to discover how to make fire but it also required thousands of people after him figuring out progressively better things to do with that fire.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:36 pm

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:50 pm

Minion wrote:http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4697 ... opyjs8.jpg

Do it right...

OzzieAlThor79 · Post by **OzzieAlThor79** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:52 pm

Minion wrote:http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4697 ... opyjs8.jpg

Well at least we're not dead to him!

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x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:05 pm

OzzieAlThor79 wrote:
Minion wrote:http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4697 ... opyjs8.jpg
Well at least we're not dead to him!

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Jasta85 · Post by **Jasta85** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:05 pm

Look at any type of entertainment these days period, take movies/TV shows for example.

Many movies fall under these general storylines:
Action--Good guy(s) needs to beat bad guy(s), they fight, good guy wins, usually saving some hot and scantily clad babe in the process.
Action part 2--Lots of explosions, bullet time and martial arts fighting with brief moments of sex in between.
Romance--Man and women, both of which have lives with problems, run into each other somehow, fall in love during a complicated process and live happily ever after.
Adventure--Hero needs to find someone/something important, runs into many obsticles along the way (possibly including lots of bad guys) and finds it in the end.
Comedy--These days comedy is usually portrayed by lots of sex, beer, and plain stupidity or jokes centered around these themes. Occasionally something actually witty will appear once in a blue moon.

now of course their are exceptions (take the departed for example in which everyone dies) but if you look at the basic storylines for movies there pretty much just a dozen templates that directors take, throw their own twist on, and make a movie. Originality isnt a part of modern day entertainment, just the same packages with brand new wrappers on them.
Therefore AMV's may not be completely better than these but they are certainly no worse.