AMVs vs MADs

[BasharOfTheAges]

I've had a number of my videos uploaded to NND and labeled as MAD. By my understanding, Cleft Palette isn't one, but they call it such. Amazing mutable thing language is... Use it incorrectly enough and it becomes a new meaning.

[AceD]

MAD is not just related to anime...its all fanmade edits whether thats a WoW montage, Silvia Saint, Army Tanks.....AMV is an actual dedicated term to a genre

So the アニメ MAD sub-genre is essentially exactly the same as an AMV...animated footage to music, It's not like content or langauge of music means anything when tagging a video, a Japanese dude in Tokyo making his Gurren Lagann video to Katy Perry is going to call it a MAD, because its the term for where he lives....I see the AMVs made by all of you on multiple Chinese/Japanese websites and most of the time they get called MADs.

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

Quite the opposite really, animated are mainstream, its just the "best/established studios" use the stills, but they are the minority.

[dokidoki]

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."

The definition I read was: "One question you may ask is why they are called MAD's. This stems from the name of the tape that was first made. It was originally titled the Kichigai Tape (Tape of Madness), but for some reason or other the title was changed from Japanese to English."
http://web.archive.org/web/200502121723 ... e/mad.html

[outlawed]

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."

The definition I read was: "One question you may ask is why they are called MAD's. This stems from the name of the tape that was first made. It was originally titled the Kichigai Tape (Tape of Madness), but for some reason or other the title was changed from Japanese to English."
http://web.archive.org/web/200502121723 ... e/mad.html

God I miss that Outlaw guy and his partners in crime who used to fansub stuff and then get forced to translate obscure Japanese web pages.
=p

[KyuuAL]

The definition I read was: "One question you may ask is why they are called MAD's. This stems from the name of the tape that was first made. It was originally titled the Kichigai Tape (Tape of Madness), but for some reason or other the title was changed from Japanese to English."
http://web.archive.org/web/200502121723 ... e/mad.html

I remember reading that. But consider what some of the "original MADs" were:

At the same time, in a completely different place in Osaka, a middle school student named Imai had started his own MAD creation. It all began from his desire for the background music from the anime show Yamato. At the time no drama records had been released, so he recorded the BGM from the TV show where there was no dialogue and pieced the clips together to make a full song. After enjoying success in this first endeavor, he began to piece together dialogue from the show and create his own memorable scenes for the show.

At this point, we may never see those edited videos.

I have a feeling. Today, the closest kind of video with this description: those "abridged" videos found in YouTube. Either that, or scene compilations.

[Mister Hatt]

A lot of MADs, at least on niconico, feature custom animation and drawing by the artists too, rather than using too much existing animation. They are often light on effects and heavy on timeline manipulation; quite a few I've seen are done in an avisynth-like tool called aviutil. I do think there is a lot of overlap but for the most part, AMVs tend to be using large cuts of existing footage while MADs are more slim cuts, stills, or entirely hand drawn animation to achieve a visually different effect with the same general outcome. That and MADs seem to favour doujin music over commercial.