How has the hobby made a difference in your life?

[Flame-X]

"How has the hobby made a difference in your life?"
It made me a bit more productive in life and gave me a new creative insight.

"If AMV's are a form of Communication. What do they Communicate?"
Promo pieces / advertisement for the sources. At least that's the way I mostly see it. Almost 1/3 of the music I listen to is because of AMVs that got me into it. Another answer I would give is... editing shows as another form art. It displays creative intent, feelings, atmosphere, soul, reflection, etc. Stuff that people already said above.

[Mr Pilkington]

I went into college as a computer science major. Ended up not liking it. One day I was at a career fair talking to someone from microsoft who said, it had to be something that you completely love to do. AMVs popped into my head the time and I smiled. I spent the next couple of years in school finding something that would give me a similar fix. I did game design, then Cinema (thinking I would edit), and then finally, I landed on Animation.

That sounds like my situation. My parents told me to "major in computers" so I chose computer science and wanted to shoot myself in the head after 1 quarter of it.

Never again.

I could write an entire novel on how amvs changed my life for the better, but I'll just leave it at that.

Pretty much the same here. Except it was my mom, after my computer buisness started crumbling, who convinced me to dedicate myself to editing as a new profession.



"How has the hobby made a difference in your life?"
Today I'm a professional video compositor

"AMV's use [Effort to Understand; Effort to be Understood; to see through Different Eyes] on so many levels. How?"
Wut?

"If AMV's are a form of Communication. What do they Communicate?"
AMVs can be a powerful tool to evoke emotions. I mean, you have music, which is already very powerful; video, equally powerful; generally a source which already has an underlying tone; and then you have the ability to modify that in a profound way.

[ZephyrStar]

I became internet famous

[Falconone]

This hobby gave me a new way to get my isperations a place to show and collect them.
Befor i started with AMVs i wrote stories and that was more a mind thing. After that with AMVs i gave them all a face, you saw and hear the ideas i had in my head.
Also it gave me a piece of freedom for my self. it helped me to forget the bad things that happens to me.
So it changed me completly.