AMV Hell

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3aTgINExt2w

What I have chosen to analyze for this assignment is essentially a montage of AMVs entitled "AMV Hell 3", which runs almost an hour long (and can be seen at above link). For those who don't know, AMV stands for "Anime Music Video" and usually is a series of clips from a particular show set to a song/songs and edited in such a way that it seems that the characters are performing the song. This particular example is a compilation of hundreds of these kinds of clips, usually about 5-20 seconds long set to popular songs or audio bytes from movies, etc. The illusion of flipping channels and almost an overload of information is created through certain editing techniques, and it is clearly evident that a lot of work went into the creation of this "film" (or maybe I should say exposition?).

Before even going through the readings for this week, I knew that whatever I chose for this assignment would probably be based on my own tastes and what I have had exposure to, and based on what I think others would enjoy as well. As Curran points out, however, what people (literary editors in particular) perceive as being popular or well received may not always be a perfect match, and might even be far from the actual sentiments of the public. I think it's important to keep in mind how well received a work would be in the consideration of whether to publish it or not, but I also think it's important not to let public sentiments restrict the type of material being published. That being said, I think that products like AMV Hell 3 deserve a chance, and would be in the same vein of programming as Robot Chicken, and perhaps Family Guy, South Park, etc. With a bit of polishing, I think that something like this would be worth publishing because of its humor and novelty, and I believe that there would be a significant audience for it. And yet, as I write all of this, I feel that maybe my decision to publish is really based on my own preferences. It really is difficult to separate oneself and think purely objectively about something, especially if you had a previous interest invested in something..