AMVs vs MADs

[KyuuAL]

I assume this topic had come up before. However, using the search function, I can't find any previous discussion on this topic. Searches come up with people being "mad" about stuff.

But anyways, I come here to ask this one simple question:

Is there a distinction between AMVs and MADs? If so, how?

My short answer: No, there isn't. There is no difference between the two, if you analyze the general composition of the two sets of videos. I make this assertion regardless of video quality, music choice (or lack of music), and purpose of the video.

[Rendakor]

What's MAD stand for?

[ryuuseisoul]

It's the Japanese equivalent to an AMV. It stands for "Music Anime Doujinshi."

[Pwolf]

Back in the day, iirc, MADs generally used stills from scans or other media rather than anime. They were also almost always done by the Japanese. Nowadays, as mentioned, MADs and AMVs are the same thing.

[Nya-chan Production]

It stands for "Music Anime Doujinshi."

No, it doesn't.
"The term MAD (occasionally M@D) is thought to be a reference to the name of one of the original MADs, rather than a particular acronym for anything."

Back in the day, iirc, MADs generally used stills from scans or other media rather than anime. They were also almost always done by the Japanese. Nowadays, as mentioned, MADs and AMVs are the same thing.

The MAD mainstream still uses more scans and/or VN stills. But it gets closer to AMVs over time, that's true.

[Kairih]

MADs are pretty cool and I guess you're right, but I prefer AMVs.

[Kireblue]

M@Ds also have a few genres that arien't really found in AMVs. My favorites are the M@Ds that mimic OPs and EDs of various anime series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1k5UGUz ... plpp_video

[KyuuAL]

M@Ds also have a few genres that arien't really found in AMVs. My favorites are the M@Ds that mimic OPs and EDs of various anime series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1k5UGUz ... plpp_video

Come to think of it, you're right. And for you AMV makers, it's a kind of project some of you ought to think about. Hint Hint. Don't look at me. I'm just an advocate.

[mirkosp]

Well, when you think of an AMV you think of anime and music, while generally when you think of a MAD, it's set to VN's and original drawings; also there are MMVs, which are, well, made with manga. But the definition of AMVs includes MMVs and what we usually think of when talking about MADs.

However, MADs and AMVs aren't entirely overlapping. MADs also include things which are not part of AMVs, which include a lot of the M@Ds based on commercial spots and/or movie/real life thing audio mixes and so on.
For example, those pesky Ronald McDonald videos are M@Ds ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5YFVagu8M ), as well as all those M@Ds that "remix" an audio/video feature to sound like a song, most often some DDR or Beatmania ( some to red zone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtfpybWWCso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oTYo8kD6U8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFM_PX9xI4 ). These videos are not necessarily AMVs, since they do not always use anime as the source (when they do, they count as amv, so for example, this is also an AMV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKXd6965fg ), but when they use sources which are not fine for AMVs, well, they are M@Ds, yet not AMVs.

On the other side of the coin, to my better knowledger, trailer videos (at least the ones set to actual trailer audio), which are not too rarely done as AMVs, are not considered MADs at all. So there we go.
MADs and AMVs are for the most two intersecting sets, but they each have their own differences. You could be editing a video that falls under both definitions, or you could be doing one that doesn't.

Re: OP Parody: Scintilla's Eva Bebop, for example. But either way, OP Parodies do count as AMVs as long as the source used was an anime/manga/game/visual novel. The differences come in when the visual source is not one of those, as far as op parodies are concerned.

[TritioAFB]

This is the perfect topic for AceD

Keep in mind what's the conception of the AMV for the Japanese community. Since the AMV is not so popular in Japan, and instead what seems prefered is the style of animations (at some cases). The MAD not always includes the anime as main source, it may even be Live Action footage just with remixes of Japanese songs.

Taking as example my video The Voice of a Kawaii Generation, when I made it, I didn't intend it to be a MAD. However, the Japanese consider it a MAD, because of the mix between Kanye West and Mio in the same video.

So the differences are between the footage used and the audio itself