Whats More Important: Talent or Hard Work?

FAII · Post by **FAII** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:17 am

I don't think you can be that talented av making music videos. It's all about your ability to pair things up based on tempo, mood, setting, footage, beat, etc. It's about seeing patterns and creating them.

All of these things can be taught from scratch. There's no magic "Great AMV-maker"-gene or ability handed down through generations. >_>'

It's all about hard work and dedication. I mean, my 2nd AMV was pretty crappy tech-wise because I hadn't really learned how to use anything other than crossfading yet, but it turned out pretty good and people liked it.

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:01 am

trythil wrote:
Sephiroth wrote:Call it genius call it egotism, call it whatever.
How about "a mistaken view that all AMVs need pomp and flash"?

Thats exactly why nothings there. All we have is flash in the top, very litle substance. Sad to say it's very popular.

Isenfolme · Post by **Isenfolme** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:42 am

Well I'll preface my comment with the disclaimer that I've only just begun editing my very very first AMV, so have minimal first hand experience, but...

I get the impression that AMV creating is much like any other form of creative art. I'm a writer. Not a great one - I've had some stuff published and it's gone down all right, but that's about it. What I've learned from writing is that there really isn't such a thing as pure talent, it's all craft. You learn the craft either consciously, by studying as you would study anything else and practicing, or unconsciously, by reading - picking up the craft by osmosis. You learn what *feels* right. Anyone can learn to be a good anything. You just have to give it time and effort. Once that craft is in position, the quality of the work you put out depends on the hard work you put into that particular project. You can have all the craft in the world, but if you blast out a short story in an hour it's very unlikely to be the next big thing.

So... Hard work all round, I'd say. Hard work in learning the craft, then hard work in putting that craft to good use.

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:48 am

Tis neither .. tis who you know ...

JH

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:06 am

Isenfolme wrote:You learn what *feels* right. Anyone can learn to be a good anything. You just have to give it time and effort.

Good at anything, yes, hard work is all you need... great at something I think requires that extra ingredient, perhaps not easily duplicated and goes into the realm of originality.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:06 am

Way to bogard my topic Julez! :angryhitler:

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:44 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:
CHAMELEON_D_H wrote:Great achivments are "hard work" times "hard work", and Thomas Alva Edison agrees with me on this one.
If you refer to his statement "Inventions are 99% transpiration and 1% inspiration", you are wrong. At first, it was a statement about his personal way to make all the inventions, which can't be generalized. And second, the part "1% inspiration" says you need some talent. With hard work only you cannot compensate missing talent completly, you can never break the barrier from good (if you can arise above average at all) to exceptionell. People like Albert Einstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Muhammed Ali aren't/weren't so much better than other scientists, tenors or boxers because they work/ed so much harder (Einstein was a lazy pupil/student). They have that neccessary amount of talent.

Even that 1% of inspiration is still a part of who you are and who you lives your life.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:10 pm

With enough hard work even a dropout may beat a genius someday.

Sorry, just had to do that.