AMV - The Musical

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:08 pm

We had an idea to do one to the Musical Movie Chicago but interest kind of dewendled, It would be cool if someone wrote and had a multi anime musical script that we could make our own musical out of. Like have one song about how premier keeps crashing or how there are so many bad dbz videos, it would be pretty fun.
Or make a story tht would pull songs from multiple musicals, could even throw in a little avenue Q

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:02 pm

RolltheStampede wrote: dewendled

hee hee

Yeah, the multi-song musical creating a new story was one idea I had, but I'd be afraid that people would start to think, "Hey, why do we only have to use songs from musicals since so many non-musical songs would work better?" *shrug* Not saying that in itself is a bad thing, of course, but it drifts away from the whole musical idea, I think, and becomes just a long-running gag AMV. We've got lots of those already.

And before someone asks, "Why don't you just go download AMVs that use songs from one musical and do it that way?," different people's takes on different songs that happen to be from one musical don't necessarily jive with one another.

*shrug* It's probable that the odds of doing an AMV musical and doing it right (doing AMVs wrong on a multi-editor scale is just a colossal waste of time, IMO) are very, very slim.

Uanime5 · Post by **Uanime5** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:26 pm

DriftRoot wrote:Oy.............. sudden incredible thought ............ how about The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Omg.... too funny...ROFL /me votes for this, twice!! OMG can you IMAGINE all the fun we could have with THAT??

Rocky Horror Picture Show is a good idea, I have made 2 AMVs using the songs 'Science Fiction / Double Feature' and 'Sweet Transvestite' and both are pretty popular. However as there are several version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (my AMVs use songs from different versions) and there are different songs in each version we made need to decide which ones to use.

Also quite a few of the songs have already been used by other AMVs.

DriftRoot wrote:*shrug* It's probable that the odds of doing an AMV musical and doing it right (doing AMVs wrong on a multi-editor scale is just a colossal waste of time, IMO) are very, very slim.

A valid point. Even if we can agree on a musical (technically agree on ehich parts of a musical we want to use) and an anime it may be difficult to find enough clips from the anime to make the musical work or to ensure there is the same feel all the way through.

jubjub2 · Post by **jubjub2** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:21 pm

There was an ooooold movie that featured nothing but broadway songs in little vignettes. I don't see why we couldn't put something together with marquees to introduce the song, etc. like that movie did, and use different music. (My brain is a mess today from the cold medicine.... I remember Judy Garland singing a song as a Hollywood starlet with reporters in her apartment, and Fred Astaire and Gene Kelley doing a number where they progressively got older -"how's the family, how's the wife".)

If anyone wants to do this, I will volunteer to compile and compress the videos for upload.

I have had an idea rattling around to a "My Fair Lady" song that I would love to do.

Wylaff · Post by **Wylaff** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:29 am

SPAMALOT's musical length is about 45 minutes, because they do run over a few classic sketches during it (parrot sketch, ect...)

And yes Cannibal the musical was made by the same people who did southpark (designed befor southpark and produced by Troma Films) but it does have quite a few good songs in it that I feel would be great fun to work with. Might not be as serious as most people are picturing this prject, but it could be fun.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:01 am

jubjub2 wrote:There was an ooooold movie that featured nothing but broadway songs in little vignettes.

I think you're talking about "That's Entertainment." It's not THAT old, jeez. It's in color, you know. hehe There are three volumes, if I remember correctly, all of which covered classic Hollywood musicals, stars and songs. This series is really, really well done and worth watching. Lots of AMV potential, too, since the movies are a great way to quickly see/hear lots of music. "I built the stairway to paaaaradise, with a newwwww step every waaaay."

Sorry, imagine that being sung with a Dracula-like accent. I'm never going to forget that song. It's hilarious.

Erm, back on subject. The musical project wouldn't be just another compilation project (like AMV Hell, among others) with different bits strung together. Again, I'm interested in seeing something new done, namely, a complete story told. And the musical doesn't have to be serious, but just because it's a comedy doesn't mean we would go all out and screw around with it. Once again...(man, I'm saying this a lot), editors would need to stick with the original story told in the musical and not take too many liberties. I will seek out the Spamalot soundtrack this weekend and give it a listen. (Been meaning to do this anyways, actually.)

Ok, so considering the problems inherent in finding one appropriate musical and one appropriate anime, maybe The Musical is really out of reach at the moment. What kind of project would approximate the result, but be easier to accomplish?

-I mentioned before telling a well-known story (not currently a musical) through song. This would give people much more creative freedom for the songs they choose and, because the singers would all be different, using various anime would be easier to swallow (if still potentially jarring). The range of stories available also is much greater (we could do Star Wars Ep. III, right?). Selecting the songs would be the challenge.

-I also had this weird idea: a progressive story AMV. What the hell? Yeah, you know, one person starts off the story, then someone else has to continue it, building off one another (logically!!). Using only songs from musicals would be a major requirement, but they could be from any musical (stage, not screen) and set to any anime. We wouldn't necessarily need to make this into a giant, compiled AMV of astronomical size, but simply make it clear the order in which the AMVs should be watched by having preludes and prologues for each setting the stage. Before an AMV officially goes up as part of the project, the one that comes before it and the one that comes after it would need to be finished, the prelude/prologue created by project leads and the whole thing uploaded to the ORG. This way, people can still post their AMVs as individual accomplishments, and get a little advertisement (since if you watch one, you'll essentially learn about two more that are worth checking out).

The progressive AMV thing might, in the end, be compiled into one big AMV if enterprising individuals wanted to do this and the story comes out well.

How to decide who continues what? Well, we (project leads) decide in advance the song progression so there is at least some kind of continuity. *much hacking ensues to whittle them down to the important parts* Then, people can sign up for whatever they want. In order, from first song to last, people submit their story continuation to the project leads, which are made available to participants in progressive order (i.e. person #3 would know about the storylines of #1 and #2, person #8 the storylines for #1-#7), as well as what anime will be used. The project leads would handle the prologue/preludes (to identify switching characters, etc., mostly).

Long post, huh?

Uanime5 · Post by **Uanime5** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:58 am

DriftRoot wrote:-I also had this weird idea: a progressive story AMV. What the hell? Yeah, you know, one person starts off the story, then someone else has to continue it, building off one another (logically!!). Using only songs from musicals would be a major requirement, but they could be from any musical (stage, not screen) and set to any anime. We wouldn't necessarily need to make this into a giant, compiled AMV of astronomical size, but simply make it clear the order in which the AMVs should be watched by having preludes and prologues for each setting the stage. Before an AMV officially goes up as part of the project, the one that comes before it and the one that comes after it would need to be finished, the prelude/prologue created by project leads and the whole thing uploaded to the ORG. This way, people can still post their AMVs as individual accomplishments, and get a little advertisement (since if you watch one, you'll essentially learn about two more that are worth checking out).

The progressive AMV thing might, in the end, be compiled into one big AMV if enterprising individuals wanted to do this and the story comes out well.

How to decide who continues what? Well, we (project leads) decide in advance the song progression so there is at least some kind of continuity. *much hacking ensues to whittle them down to the important parts* Then, people can sign up for whatever they want. In order, from first song to last, people submit their story continuation to the project leads, which are made available to participants in progressive order (i.e. person #3 would know about the storylines of #1 and #2, person #8 the storylines for #1-#7), as well as what anime will be used. The project leads would handle the prologue/preludes (to identify switching characters, etc., mostly).

The progressive anime might be good, since the AMVs are only one song long it avoids the size problem and we only need to make a compalation it its popular. However we will all need to provide links to all parts of the song.

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:33 pm

Why dont you make this an interest bearing in the MEP. I could work on thsi but i would need the span of like a yaer before we release since i am currently working on other Meps and my own projects

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:54 pm

Uanime5 wrote: The progressive anime might be good, since the AMVs are only one song long it avoids the size problem and we only need to make a compalation it its popular. However we will all need to provide links to all parts of the song.

The links to the songs aren't necessarily a problem if we can find someone willing to host them for awhile. (I do not have a Web site at the moment, otherwise I'd do it.) This is a requirement for most ME projects, so hopefully it will be simple to organize. As stated before, to keep things as concise as possible and avoid burnout, the songs probably would be edited down in length. Songs from musicals tend be long and repetitive, anyways. God I hate editing music...but I'll do it.

RolltheStampede wrote:Why dont you make this an interest bearing in the MEP. I could work on thsi but i would need the span of like a yaer before we release since i am currently working on other Meps and my own projects

Not quite sure what you're trying to get across...post this idea over at the other forum? I thought the Suggestions forum WAS for ideas.

On reflection, the project leaders wouldn't necessarily have to lay out every single song, since this might end up being too restrictive. <------- warrants discussion.

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:59 pm

well if this was a single edited video then you would be right but when you have a multi editor project you usually creast an interest bearing thread in the Multi editor section to see if people want to join in on the project, atleast that where i look to find multi editor project hince the name.