AMV Documentary Project (Help Needed!)

[mexicanjunior]

I still have Carlos's old AWA, A-Kon and Ushicon documentaries...lots of good stuff there...

[MinetChan]

I still have Carlos's old AWA, A-Kon and Ushicon documentaries...lots of good stuff there...

If they are okay with them being used, pleased send them my way. Those would really help! Thanks!

[Kireblue]

Just in case anyone missed the survey that MinetChan posted in the AMV Monthly Newsletter, I'll quote it here:

Original Post

In order to get some statistics for the AMV Documentary project, I also set up an AMV Documentary survey.

I encourage every editor to take the time to fill it out. This information will help provide extra realism to the final video.

Thanks in advance!

[TritioAFB]

Sorry for taking so long, but from me you will have some stuff translated in time. I hope to finish it soon

[SQ]

I used to do AMV docs. Well I only did 2, really. I sent my tapes to ZephyrStar. He was the last guy trying to do an AMVer doc. Maybe you can get some info or footage out of him.

[Kionon]

I'd need to dig, but I think I have stuff from the late nineties/early 2000s. Photos, definitely. Video, maybe not so much.

Also, I've been in Japan for almost a decade and I hadn't even heard of AMV Japan until looking at your staff post. I don't honestly think it's representative of the M@D/AMV Community here, and I'm not even sure how many off the AMV Japan staffers are actually in Japan.

The only editor I speak to regularly in Japan is dokool.

[StarTrinity009]

I'd need to dig, but I think I have stuff from the late nineties/early 2000s. Photos, definitely. Video, maybe not so much.

Also, I've been in Japan for almost a decade and I hadn't even heard of AMV Japan until looking at your staff post. I don't honestly think it's representative of the M@D/AMV Community here, and I'm not even sure how many off the AMV Japan staffers are actually in Japan.

The only editor I speak to regularly in Japan is dokool.

Archive materials would be wonderful! If you would like to participate, we would certainly like to look at them.

Would you happen to have any better information about the MAD/AMV Community in Japan? Any other ideas for people to contact with leads?
Would dokool know? If I could talk to either of you about this, or others too, I would appreciate it.

(Also, in case of confusion, I'm a co-producer for this project, so please don't be alarmed that you're not hearing from MinetChan directly.)

[Kionon]

In the late 2000s, around 2009 or so, I talked to a native Japanese M@D creator (I'm an immigrant, I'm actually in the process of obtaining Japanese citizenship, one doesn't need to be "native" to be Japanese by law) when I was on a semi-vacation at my work place, and he noticed me working on an AMV at the office. He excitedly told me about his background and we discussed the M@D community (at that time, it did not seem that the term "AMV" was well known, although "music anime douga" was). He pointed out that in his experience, most people were individuals with little coordination or group involvement. There wasn't really a community to rival the studio websites of the late 1990s, the convention scene in the US (Japanese anime related events are significantly different from conventions in other parts of the world), the Org in our prime, or current branch off groups, such as the aforementioned AMV Japan (or things like the Russian groups, etc). I think if such communities exist now, it is largely due to the modern influence of Nico Nico Douga and YouTube, but not something has any long history. I assume most M@Ds I see by Japanese creators continue to be independent productions without wider community groups, but I haven't deeply investigated.

Dokool is mostly retired, his Japanese level and integration into Japanese video editing/graphic/music areas is significantly greater than mine, so perhaps he does have more information than I do. I can ask him. Most of my Japanese friends tend to be significantly younger, and the groups I am involved with that do have older folks and history are the union/labor movement (I'm an exec and organiser for a Japanese labor union) and LGBT groups (such as the annual Dyke Weekend which takes place each May in English and Japanese at the National Women's Education Center in Saitama).

[MinetChan]

Dokool is mostly retired, his Japanese level and integration into Japanese video editing/graphic/music areas is significantly greater than mine, so perhaps he does have more information than I do. I can ask him.

Thank you Kionon! We also really appreciate the extra information. We really want to accurately document the AMV/M@D communities and how they are different/similar. Since you already have some great knowledge on the subject, what do you think about answering some questions in the form of an interview?

Please PM me if this interests you!

[StarTrinity009]

Dokool is mostly retired, his Japanese level and integration into Japanese video editing/graphic/music areas is significantly greater than mine, so perhaps he does have more information than I do. I can ask him.

Thank you Kionon! We also really appreciate the extra information. We really want to accurately document the AMV/M@D communities and how they are different/similar. Since you already have some great knowledge on the subject, what do you think about answering some questions in the form of an interview?

Please PM me if this interests you!

Yes, I agree! We would like to hear from you more, and an introduction with dokool would be helpful. By chance, were any of those archive photos taken in Japan? I don't think we have any old, anime-themed photos taken in Japan.