"Lipsyncing is cruise control for comedy."

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:04 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=78144
Hur hur.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:38 am

requiett wrote:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=78144
Hur hur.

Fits better there than in this one.

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:14 pm

This is a very good point, it's true that lip synchs work very well in comedy, and they are just most often used there, however you could claim the same for Fade to blacks, and transparent close ups of people crying for dramas. And random AE effects for action videos.

It's true people could effectively use all os these things in other contexts, Lip synching Drama, AE effects for Comedy, etc etc, but I suppose once someone sees a very good style of video done with very good use of a style of effect, they try and emulate it, thus creating the situation we find ourselves in now.

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:07 pm

I have decided to lip synic beats now ....

mikestrife · Post by **mikestrife** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:11 pm

JudgeHolden wrote:I have decided to lip synic beats now ....

Haha, a human beat boxing amv. That could be hillarious.

qazyseult · Post by **qazyseult** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:35 pm

Guilty, your honor. With lip-synching liek that, it's more like you're using the funny song's inherent funny as the selling point as opposed to adding your own funny. I think that comment makes sense.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:25 pm

badmartialarts wrote:Furthermore, and this is where the comment comes from, there are lots of drama videos that just make me laugh because of the lipsync.

A "famous" example of this is One Day More. This showed in the drama category at AX, and thousands of people were laughing their asses off. As the video info says, it got a standing ovation at the end.

Lipsync good for comedy or bad? Good in drama, or bad?

Good in either if done well. Bad in either if done poorly.
Given its prevalence in comedy, it can be hard for some to take seriously sometimes in drama, as discussed. Generally in comedy AMVs, I want more than just lipsync, but sometimes lipsync-only can be entertaining as well.

SnhKnives · Post by **SnhKnives** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:33 pm

i agree with this

however, bad lip sync videos always win out over videos that can sometimes be clever or hard to catch comedic wise.

why? cause the amv crowd's IQ isnt getting any higher

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:50 pm

SnhKnives wrote:however, bad lip sync videos always win out over videos that can sometimes be clever or hard to catch comedic wise.
why? cause the amv crowd's IQ isnt getting any higher

(Takes notes for next video)

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:03 pm

SnhKnives wrote:however, bad lip sync videos always win out over videos that can sometimes be clever or hard to catch comedic wise.

why? cause the amv crowd's IQ isnt getting any higher

Hence is a good way to capitalize on competitions... Any other kind of AMV might be good but almost always, at least to me, something personal... in the end to quote Men in Black, "a person is smart, people are dumb (and panicky)"

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