general info title AMV Technique Beat anime Ichigo Mashimaro song Polaroid artist Laugh & Beats album Vib Ribbon OST genre comedy, educational, happy time spent 55-60 hours programs used Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, Adobe Photoshop CS2, VirtualDubMod, StaxRip download link amv.org amv contest info Winner of Animecon 2007 AMV contest (both editor and public judge ranking) and also won the Best of Show and Fans' Choice Awards of A-Kon 18 (2007) of the Fans' Exhibition. I was actually surprised of winning them, because it was really hard guessing whether the audience would get the video or not. But I'm glad people liked it and actually laughed (even at the parts that I thought were bad). evolution Animecon 2006 was the first AMV contest for me, where I've became 6th of 13. I knew I could do better than that and because the judging was done by both the editors and the people from the public I had to make a crowd pleaser. I started planning an effect-loaded AMV, but just one week before the deadline I only had most of the storyboard done and figured out how to do some of the effects I wanted. So no actual editing/compositing was done yet! Knowing I wouldn't finish it on time, I decided to start with a whole new video. Even though I have a lot of ideas, at that time none of them seemed realistic to do in that timespan. So I was browsing through the albums I had and stumbled upon the Vib Ribbon OST, that features songs of a group called Laugh & Beats (even though in Vib Ribbon they're credited as Laugh & Peace). They have very wierd songs, but fun though and the first one always attracted me. So I just imported the song into Premiere and started editing with Ichigo Mashimaro - not only because it looked like a funny serie (didn't see it at that time yet), butalso because it was already on my harddrive. idea At first I didn't know what to do and started editing some stuff randomly, which was mainly based on using all the syncing tricks in the book. It didn't really made sense at the time, but looked somewhat funny though. One morning, when I had about 20% of the AMV edited, I took a shower and started thinking of all the comedy AMVs I liked. There were only 3 I cold think of, where one of them was "A Total Waste of 6 Minutes and 35 Seconds". The AMV had some prety solid editing, but done in a really repetitive waste, combined with some captions to make it more understandable and funny. That's where I got the idea to put captions in myself and because I already used all the different type of syncs I thought it would be nice to make a showcase of all the different editing techniques you can use as an editor, but more in a comical-style and a non-sensical way. concept The idea behind this all is to show how you can be technical perfect and know all the techniques, but still mess up and create a bad AMV, because everything you do doesn't make any sense at all or doesn't have any thought behind it. AMV Technique Beat takes techniques in such a way it's so stupid and so non-sensical that it actually ends up funny. choices I will not go through each part of the AMV, because I think most of the scenes speaks for itself, but here are some stuff I'd like to explain. The beginning is done to make sure the first impression the viewer gets is that it's a comedy-AMV. The first sentences give the impression what will be shown in the aMV and that's actually the most important part of the text (you cannot read the rest in one time anyway. It only surprised me that the people in the audience really tried to read all of the text! thanks Thanks to Niotex for beta-ing (even though he didn't say more than: "Tech-wize there's nothing wrong. I can't say more than that because I also suck at comedy". Also thanks to Scintella for helping me out with an AVIsynth-related issue. text/lyrics story/built-up Starting with syncing techniques, because this in the AMV world this is Then about story-telling Then content then miscellaneous stuff initial idea footnotes