First, i will give an example. Maybe most of you guys haven't heard Magic The Gathering. Its a trading card game. In the game you collect cards and combine them to form a deck with one main idea of winning. Think of the cards in the deck as the music, anime, effects and so on. Well, in MTG there are mainly 3 types of decks : combo, aggro and control, and each one wins in a very different way than the others. Aggro smashes your opponent's face with creatures and races to score more damage faster, control... well controls the game xD and combo pulls out a combination of cards that result in an almost instant win. And there are also combinations like combo/control or aggro/combo...
OMG why did i explain all this? Ah, yes to relate it to amvs. I think AMVs can be separated like MTG decks in 3 main types:
-Videos that aim to visualize every aspect of the song. Examples : the above mentioned Vertigo, Silencio
-Videos that are created as a tribute to the anime and because the creator thinks the anime and the song fit together nicely... linkin ball or naruto park or something similar.(It sounds like I don't like such vids, but it isn't true.. there are good videos in every type for me, for example Koop's Waking Hour)
-Videos that try to create an original story or atmosphere out of the song/anime choice... example : AtomX's Be There or Scintilla's My Evil Alien
and there are also combinations
for example:
visualization + original story = WoTB
visualization + tribute to anime = BTB
tribute to anime + original story = Reflections
I just wanted to say that.. its up to you if you agree or not. My point is there are different types of vidos and different type of people. Not everyone likes visualization videos (or "concept videos"). I completely love them.I like experimental stuff. I like eye candy. I like a video that has and emotional impact on me. And most of all, i like anime. Anime is what makes me watch AMVs. As long as people continue to create anime, there will always be good AMVs.
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thats right MTV if ya watch a lot of vids there you see bands playing,dancers, or other things that correspond to what the lyrics are saying. Then once in a while you see vids that have nothing to do with whats being shown and what the song is about but show of a sense of art to them. See what I mean is this when ya watch Silencio it has nothing to do with the original anime its just a girl in front of a piano the scenes move back and forth with the flow of the music with some pretty sparkles and flashes its artsy. I remember watching Euphoria years ago and I didnt like it cause its didnt show what the anime was about, but later realized that was not the point of the vid. I also do hate amvs that do a re-telling of a anime in an amv its like watching a fan fiction in an amv format. But there are vids like ukms[z] : Reflections that is not really a re-telling but taking 2 different anime and making them seem like the 2 where from the same thing or at least combined the 2 to make a flowing and heart wrenching vid. MAD's are fun to watch have been for the last few years but they start to all look the same, which is what I think KOOP is trying to say, that you will see a trend setter then you will see hundreds of vids that will look the same then after a bit ya see a new vid that shatters what the last hundred did and so on. See on the vat staff we had a saying for some action vids "boring action" and by that I mean you feel that after watching amvs for soo long you feel that even though you have never seen the anime or heard the song being used you feel that you have seen the vid cause it follows the style and feel that the last hundred vids ya saw already. But then we get these awesome vids that make us all shut up and watch and some times give a hell ya. All amvs are art they all have a concept to them. you say that you need to have an original concept to make a good amv..no you dont, see I look at AMV creators like I do Impressionist, they take already made subject mater and create unusual visual angles to them. with the help of cheaper and cheaper powerful home computers regular people with ideas are able to create unusual visual angles to the anime world. I watch amvs for many reasons, I see anime in them that I havent seen and if the vid moves me the right way I might go out and get it, some make me laugh, some make me cry, and some make me want to dance. Lets all take a moment to think about this, there are soo many people out there to put others down because the dont like what they see but to some what they see is art. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. so go out and watch amvs learn from what others do and see what you can do thats different, or ground breaking.
