Do you really think about your ops?

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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by animedays » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:32 pm

I give opinions, usually through the opinion exchange..as I'm fairly new to AMV's with four under my belt. The opinions given in the exchange usually nicely tear me a new one, if you know what I mean....and often conflict which only confuses the girl more. One person will say...I thought the sync overall worked well, and another will say there was no sync at all. lol. However...I do use the opinions given to ***hopefully*** improve on my next video. :D Most of the opinions I have gotten seem to have been thought out in some form or other.

When I leave an opinion, I try to think about it. My opinions are probably not worth as much as an editor who has been around for a while...but I hope that I provide a "fresh" perspective. lol.
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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by JaddziaDax » Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:48 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:I could care less about getting all 1s or all 10s its what is said in the op that really matters to me.
I'd say there's a pretty strong correlation between those numbers and not getting anything useful said though - as if one was a representative indicator of the other.
I don't necessarily need "useful" opinions though... I've also gotten pretty useless opinions with what looked like well thought out scores as well too. Which brings me back to I really don't care about the numbers, I care more about what is said.

and sometimes when people are trying to be useful to me they are really just annoying me with information I already know and purposefully chose to ignore, or they are telling me something that I completely disagree with. There is no "wrong way" to make an amv. There is what I like and what I don't like, and just because I don't like it doesn't mean that there isn't someone out there who does. (Am I starting to sound like Beowulf?)
animedays wrote:The opinions given in the exchange usually nicely tear me a new one, if you know what I mean....and often conflict which only confuses the girl more. One person will say...I thought the sync overall worked well, and another will say there was no sync at all. lol. However...I do use the opinions given to ***hopefully*** improve on my next video. :D
When opinions conflict like that what you gotta do is look at them both separately... go back over the video and try to see what the person saw or what the person didn't see and then decide weather or not your agree with them. It is okay to disagree. What it comes down to is you figuring out what you like in your videos and trying your best to do just that.

When it comes to sync different people have different ways of syncing and sometimes they don't or can't see any other way to sync. So while you might sync to the lyrics someone who is used to seeing sync to the music might not get it and vice versa.

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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by Castor Troy » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:13 pm

Beowulf wrote:Its most brutal when you do an op exchange and someone gives your video a glowing review, says you inspire them to live a righteous life and give to charity, and you have to call their video the piece of shit that it really is. I'm not doing that anymore. If I was some tween on the other end of that I would burst into tears. :down:
This reminds of the a time back in 2001 where someone wanted me to give him the most honest and brutal op I can give him. He also promised not to go apeshit on me.

After I wrote it, he went completely apeshit. :|
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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by inthesto » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:33 pm

Beowulf wrote:I could write up a big 500 word essay to shred a video but really, who needs that?

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as if anyone is qualified to judge something as subjective as AMVs
Uh.
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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by BasharOfTheAges » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:41 pm

Someone better tell all those wealthy professional art, film, and food critics they're out a a job. Tough economy, this one.
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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by JaddziaDax » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:08 pm

there are many unqualified people holding down jobs these days XD

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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by Beowulf » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:19 pm

Yingface, PsyD wrote:
Beowulf wrote:I could write up a big 500 word essay to shred a video but really, who needs that?

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as if anyone is qualified to judge something as subjective as AMVs
Uh.
There's a very big difference between telling someone what you didn't like about a video, and telling them what they did wrong. Thats the point I was making.

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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by hasteroth » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:20 pm

Beowulf wrote:
Yingface, PsyD wrote:
Beowulf wrote:I could write up a big 500 word essay to shred a video but really, who needs that?

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as if anyone is qualified to judge something as subjective as AMVs
Uh.
There's a very big difference between telling someone what you didn't like about a video, and telling them what they did wrong. Thats the point I was making.
Kinda the point I was trying to make earlier. Partly why I made this thread in the first place.
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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by Castor Troy » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:39 pm

I can tell what you all did wrong.

You decided to make amvs.

Truth.

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Re: Do you really think about your ops?

Post by Beowulf » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:33 pm

Castor Troy wrote:I can tell what you all did wrong.

You decided to make amvs.

Truth.

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