Aesthetic hallmarks of the anime music video

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Examples welcome

  • literal representation of lyrics with cuts even if lyrics are metaphorical
  • film scratches, dust, etc
  • watermarks
  • subtitles
  • loose syncing of lip flap with singing but inconsistently so
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Abrupt change of video quality
Reuse of same footage on a chorus

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this is what sonic content research does to a motherfucker

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old-school windows movie maker rainbow hue cycling

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Freeze frame pan or zoom in on a character’s facial expression (anguish optional). Digital zoom also causes dip in video quality

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manually synchronized walking to the beat that looks kind of horrible because it’s not a real walk cycle, just a bit cut out of a larger animation and repeated

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I just sorted a youtube search for AMVs by uploaded date scrolled down until I had a days worth searched the word Views as it appears by each video and looks like 60-62 were uploaded in the last 24 hours.
OVER SIXTY
Some are like 30 seconds (tiktoks?) but most are 2-4 minutes long.

You might be able to watch like 2 hours of AMVs a day without repeats ever.

So I guess add TOO MANY to the modern AMV hallmarks.

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It’s astonishing how even a poorly edited AMV from 2008 will have over a million views

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I guess they have that authentic nerd flavor the kids crave.
Has a band tried to use AMVs for promotion yet?

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I mean, the OG of doing this:

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Use every plugin in your editor in the same video, fuck it

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Linkin Park are definitely huge weebs

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it’s not exactly the same but this video reuses the same closeup of (i think) yuffie’s eyes a couple of times for attempted dramatic effect.
there’s also a great/terrible instance of the faux-lipsynching

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I feel like the inverse of this is No Doubt lifting entire scenes from Kite for a music video

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I apologize for thinking this into being but can we all agree it’s a little weird they didn’t use “Wise Up”?

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If this is a piss-take it’s a virtuoso performance

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Those two Lain videos led me to this most sublime kind of amv: song has an indelible context and using it for an amv is ridiculous on its face. My favorite now is “See You Again”

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This contains more or less the entire state of things now: movie trailer cover song, color grading, a shellacking of after effects. It’s boring because anything can be punched up like this. See: fancams of actors on press junkets.

Anime Music Videos dot org has some plaintext guides that are delightful artifacts. I kind of want to ask for a copy of their db to figure out what the most popular songs were, most popular combinations, etc.

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Now obsessed with using a Monte Carlo method on the amv dot org database to simulate alternate universes of AMVs

Imagine the removal effect for Linkin Park. How many AMVs would simply not exist but for the tectonic impact of Hybrid Theory?

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