AMVs with music your friends made

Parkan · Post by **Parkan** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:53 pm

Anyone ever made a video especially for a band you know personally or just for a friend, who makes his own music? I've just finished an AMV together with my buddy (he's a rapper), and I had a damn lot of fun making it. Actually, I liked the process so much, that I'm polishing the concept of another vid right now - again in collaboration with our local band.

So, here's the question: when you make such an AMV, don't you feel that you put too much emphasis on the band itself? I mean, it's like creating a vid that can be fully appreciated only by the people who know them...

Because nearly all rappers I showed my work to said it was great, but many anime-fans didn't like it.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:03 pm

I've had OtakuForLife make a video for a friend of mine using his own mix of the Flash Gordon theme and the Legend of Max. It was his payment for using my laptop for an iron editor.

It's somewhat similar I guess...

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:39 pm

I knew and was friends with the Ticket Timewasters before this video...

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... php?v=6898

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:58 pm

i know the guy who sings the song in this but its not my most popular amv :/

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:50 am

I've done one called Pain of War.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=60101

This is a local band that my friend has and I meet up with them two years ago. I'm currently working on an amv project where I wrote a poem and then I decided it would make a great song with some modifications and now I'm making an amv to it this video probably willn't be released for some time since I just started on it.

To answer your question no because I try to make the video as I do any other amv. I'm trying to help my friends band get their music out there and get them a larger fan base.

Gene Starwind 21122

Digitalmaster3605 · Post by **Digitalmaster3605** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:28 am

I did an AMV for a friends band for one of their tracks. I don't really like it, but it's what he wanted, and he loves it. It's an Metal Music/Advent Children amv. I uploaded it here so I could give it to him. Lol.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:26 am

I've done three videos with audio by musicians/bands that I know personally, and haven't run into the OP's problem (question in the second paragraph) yet, mostly because that's how I approach all my videos. Music-first is a legitimate way to approach AMV editing, even if it's not as rewarding in this community.

The default assumption around here is that AMV is Anime music video, while for general audience it's usually anime Music Video; the difference in emphasis is what is causing your different reactions. People who are anime fans will expect to find familiar themes and conceptual threads in your AMVs, while people who don't have any attachment to the anime used will just take the visuals as visuals working for the music, rather than worry about what the combination is trying to say about the source. Even if you decide to use a title solely for its visual flash, this doesn't sever the connections that anime fans will have to the source, or disrupt the associations that they will usually see between its visual elements. That aggregation of pixels into lines and color fields is not just an image, or a male or female figure, but a character, a memetic entity carrying a personality and a whole set of assumptions about their place in the world that may have nothing to do with what you're trying to do with them.

To non-anime fans, that "character" is simply the sum of what he or she looks like and what actions you allow him or her in the video. There's no associations that need breaking, and what you're trying to do with the music comes through that much easier. You can do the same thing to anime fans as well, but the source titles you choose have to be that much more obscure.

--K

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:57 am

mexicanjunior wrote:I knew and was friends with the Ticket Timewasters before this video...

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... php?v=6898

Classic

I have pondered doing a vid for my cousin's band and maybe a vid or two for a local band (The Trick) who were in my night school Spanish class.

AMV_4000 did a video for some freinds of mine that sing at the local Ren-Fest, but its not very complimentary.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=43004

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:57 am

Kai Stromler wrote:Music-first is a legitimate way to approach AMV editing, even if it's not as rewarding in this community.

Wait, whut? Hold on!

Uhm, this is how I've all of my videos except Sakura's The Girl I've Been Telling You About. Whaddaya mean it's not as rewarding? You confuse me. I'm a Music First editor all the way.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:41 pm

I took a radio commercial recorded by Brett Weaver (Carrot Glace, Nabeshin) and made a music video out of it.

That count?