quadir wrote:
I don't think creativity is so important that if you hear a song and see an anime and go "that fits so well together!" you should automatically think "crappy video".
Oh, I don't. Some of my favorite videos are those that just rehash the anime's story, such as norskotaku's
Priceless or AtomX's
Good Enough. There's nothing inherently wrong with videos like these, but there's nothing very original about them either, and originality is probably the most important thing for me when I watch videos. If they do something I've never seen before, that's what I like.
In this video, there was nothing that I haven't seen several times before, especially with Kaledio Star. Again, though,
this is not a bad thing, as I genuinely enjoyed the editing style and was able to ignore the fact that the concept wasn't something new. I like the video very much, but as originality is an aspect of every video that must be graded, we have to face facts here: this AMV isn't anything terribly unique. That's all I'm saying really.
quadir wrote:
Series context is a hard thing to argue. I've noticed the trend in AMVs is to discourage requiring series context, and the ultimate result is the 'various' videos.
And again, I agree. Kind of like what I say above, keeping a series within its context is not an inherently bad thing. Would Euphoria be any good if the footage used was Azumanga Daioh? No, certainly not. With every video you have to take the context of the anime into consideration, and this is no exception. But (and as jasper-isis's recent Kaleido Star video keeps coming up, I'll just use it) as Frost and Flames shows, you can still make something really interesting and different while not necessarily staying within the expected bounds of an anime conceptually (and I personally don't see the AMV as much of a dance video).
So basically, Det-chan's video meets the status quo in terms of story and concept. But I still think this is a well above-average video because the focus isn't meant to be ON the story, so it's okay. If Det-chan wants high scores in the originality category, however, she's going to have to do something different, as that's what it means to be original, and often the storyline of an AMV is the one of the easiest things to manipulate to do something new.
Kinda why I like making alternate storyline videos so much...
