Songs that scream Kendall Roy and should already be in edits:
Falling Ashes -Slow Dive
Boy and the man / Hear the ghost in this town - Could this be it / Your final words, your own / We rolled the bed / Piece by piece, plank by plank
Posthumous Forgiveness -Tame Impala
You have to see the lyrics for yourself, it's perfect
Wolf River -Reign Wolf
Please just make it stop / The rhythm, the beat of your soul / The rust tears us apart / I'm spinning out of control / You are breaking my heart - And I swear I'm drowning <-S1 ending
Hole In The Earth -Deftones
Can you explain to me how / You're so evil, how? / It's too late for me now - Can you explain to me now? / If you're still able, well /(It's time) I think you know the truth
Saturday Saviour -Failure
I'm never gonna say the words / That you want / I'm never gonna feel the shame / Like you do / I'm never gonna stretch my shape / To be with you / I only need you for a day / 'Cause I only want to be your / Saturday savior / I can be that / Saturday savior / I will be your / Saturday savior / I can be that impostor in your bed / Wake him up please
Drowning -A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Wrist so icy, wonder why she like me, bitch I'm drownin' / In water, I just bought a Cuban, dipped it in the fountain / Chain so heavy I feel like I'm holdin' up a mountain / Everywhere that I go it's a light show, I'm surrounded / Bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bitch I'm drownin'
Every time I "finish" an AMV, I create a comparison like this.
The left side is the "effectless" draft—minimal transitions, zero coloring, limited text animation—while the right side is the "final" version I post online. It's a way to assess my work; where did the added effort elevate the edit, and where do my eyes find themselves drawn more to the draft because the "final" version is too busy, too overwhelming, too much?
I'm new to video editing. There aren't even 20 AMVs to my name, and I only seriously started a little over a year ago. My process involves a lot of struggling with what a "good" AMV is, a lot of wondering if I'm doing it all wrong—anxieties that were only exacerbated by a popular post that crossed my dash many months ago. It decried AMVs that don't edit with the full song as worthless, bad, garbage. The kids don't know how to do it right.
Not a kid, but maybe they've got a point!
Still, it was a disheartening sentiment to read. And while I might not know much, I think I am confident in knowing this: there are many AMV styles out there, and the shorter ones may certainly not be everyone's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean that they're devoid of love, time, effort, or passion. The video at the top of this post is hardly 30 seconds long, and it still took over 60 hours of spilling out ideas and cutting clips and learning new skills and scrapping new skills and tweaking transitions and coloring and recoloring and shaking my head and giving up and trying again.
Fan vidders, no matter the style they employ, are devoting their free time and energy to create. It'd be ludicrous to suggest that a movie is inherently inferior to a TV series, or a short story automatically meaningless compared to a novel.
anyway, i hope you guys are chill with the layout and presentation i’ve currently got going for alvins infurno, it will change around a bit, jumping between styles when the chapters change or when i feel a certain way is easiest for me to get the page done, but the long and short of it is it will mold itself to my motivation and spoons in order for me to actually, you know, finish it lol.
My friend was like “she/they cody walsh” and I said straight facts only being delivered over here *gesturing like “get a load of this guy” but positive*