TaranT wrote:Lyrs wrote:god damn, that's a long opinion.
Actually, that's kind of short for an MCWagner composition.
I just finished my thesis. I'm off my game.
TaranT wrote:Is it really as simple as finding the right match of music to video?
Of course that's not all there is to it, but with a lot of stuff, it's what strikes me as missing. The match becomes an excuse to play with the newest tech toy instead of the other way around. I think the sense of awe comes from the video's presence as a complete, coherent whole, bigger than its parts, & that grows from the initial match. Some videos I honestly feel result from a creator forgetting to really "own" their idea, and are instead just creating videos that are hyper-fast or uber-tech or using the latest toy/trend, similar music/anime because they figure that's what's expected of "a good video" nowdays, and the "not having fun anymore" starts showing through in lackluster efforts. I'd hate it even more if this discussion ended up forcing people into a long string of halfhearted "art" videos because they thought
that was what was expected of them now.
It's entirely possible that I'm reading too much into this. I don't generally like commenting on "state of the industry" crap & 'cause I have a weird perspective & my rig is busted. But I don't think there's any harm discussing new ideas, wondering at the lack of recent innovation, and this might shake some AMVers out of the self-imposed complacent boredom they've gotten into from seeing so many similar videos. It just seems that milling around in the same old music & the same old matches is boring the creators as much as the audience.
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
