some Amv's ruining your amv's plans

DooKi` · Post by **DooKi`** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:06 am

Just kind of throwing it out there, but when I started to make my amv the other day, and just as a break I figured I'd watch some. I came across a video which was using the same anime and same type of music. After watching it I couldnt get my original idea back and all I could do is remember that damn video!! Anyways does anyone else ever regret watching AMVS while makeing them?

For me, I cant watch any AMVS with the same anime im using... I just end up losing all of the original imagination to it.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:14 am

yup... happens to me a lot O:
especially when i have an idea for an amv, and it turns out someone else had a better one for that song, or the same idea for that song O.o so i end up dropping the idea O:

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:20 am

If my amvs have a different enough theme or whatever, then I can watch other amvs using the same sources no problem, without worrying about being too influenced

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:41 am

That's one of my favorite ways of making videos; watch how someone gets an effect/scene/video to work, then steal that idea and make it my own. It just adds one more layer to the concept of the "amv community".

Syek · Post by **Syek** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:23 am

Before I start making my amv, I normally check out videos that may have the same idea or music or something. It helps me get more inspiration. Unless of course, one of the videos I see totally wipes the floor with my idea o_< then I just leave it or go onto a different idea. Also, if the idea winds up being too unoriginal, I'll drop it as well.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:35 pm

Meh that only happens to me if the song they used is the same or at the very least the same band.

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:28 pm

Luckily that never happens to me! Nope :/

No, seriously, it's pretty rare that I decide to do an amv with a popular concept at all.

Beast Spear · Post by **Beast Spear** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:03 pm

It wouldn't. I usually am pretty firm on my ideas before hand, and even if someone did the same exact song with the same anime, I'd still do mine...it wouldn't bother me.

wurpess · Post by **wurpess** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:37 pm

Sub0 wrote:Luckily that never happens to me! Nope :/

No, seriously, it's pretty rare that I decide to do an amv with a popular concept at all.

x2 *^_^*

But yeah, I will usually go looking to see how many times a combo has been used when I get an idea. If its been used more than twice, I'll usually drop it without watching the vids. If its one I feel very strongly about, I'll either watch the other vids to see what they're like and decide from there if I'll still make the vid. If I still feel strongly about making the vid after watching the other vids (either because the other people had a different concept or they murdered it. . .or I just REALLY want to make the vid.) then I will still make it. But I get so many ideas and I have a short attention span, so its really not that much of a big deal to drop one. Or sometimes I'll just make the vid without going to see if its been done just so I don't have to worry about it.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:45 pm

I want this to happen to me, but it never does.

Seriously, if the AMVs - nay, if even all the music I wanted to make videos to had been used in AMVs, I would never have so much as started making them and would be all the happier for it. Alas, I keep having to do all that myself