Anime music video

An anime music video (sometimes abbreviated AMV) is a music video consisting of clips from one or more anime television series or movies set to a particular song. Most are not official music videos released by the musicians, but fan compositions taking clips from various series and synchronizing them with a musical track. As such they are most commonly released over the Internet. Anime conventions often run AMV contests or AMV exhibitions. While AMVs are traditionally limited to anime, anime-styled video game footage is also a popular option, featured in over 10% of current AMVs according to AnimeMusicVideos.org statistics (as of September 2005).

AMVs are not to be confused with the original animation films produced as music videos for such groups as Daft Punk, or with such short music video films as Japanese musical duo Chage and Aska's song "On Your Mark" by Studio Ghibli.

AMV creation

The creation of an AMV centers on using various video editing techniques to create a feeling of synchronisation with the audio. Several techniques are available to achieve this:

Editing - Using different clips from the video source and changing between them at specific times is the most important tool the AMV creator has. Often both the events in the video and the transitions between the clips are synchronized with events in the music.
Lip-sync - the synchronization of the lip movements of a character in the original video source to the lyrics of the audio, to make it appear as if the character were singing the song.
Digital Effects - Using video editing software (like a non-linear editing system) the video source can be modified in various ways. Some effects are designed to be unnoticable (such as modifying a scene to stop a character's mouth from moving) whereas others are intended to increase synchronization with the audio, or possibly create a whole unique visual style for the video.
Some editors use original and manipulated animation, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, in AMV works. Such additions are often used for visual effect or to convey a story that cannot be done using only the original video source.

AMV webcomics

Some webcomics have begun featuring AMVs as source material for satire. Hookie Dookie Panic! is one of the most outspoken comics to be involved with the AMV community. The comic is produced by Brian Wilson and Shawn Lieske, and, along with AMVs, uses many facets of anime conventions -- such as cosplay, AMVs, anime, and games -- as comedic material.

External links

AnimeMusicVideos.org, an AMV catalog. Includes downloads.
Association Fantasy Movies French association organising contests and hosting a lot of AMV. Downloads available.
Creatives face a closed Net FT.com, 17th January
"Anime Music Videos at the Annenberg Center for Communication

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AMV creation

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