By: Jenno
Created on June 14, 2010
Anime – D.Gray Man
Music – Avril Lavigne ~ Innocence
Hey dudes and dudettes! Donna here! Still trying to decide what content we should post up here. If there is anything you would like to see let us know by contacting us on our contact sheet. Decided to switch focus and leave it as an entertainment week with the movies and videos I have been watching. Next week you can stay tuned with more health-related posts from myself. Everyone’s present schedules have been hectic but we are trying to provide content that everyone will enjoy. Just to introduce the video content, there may be some videos on here of other people’s work that we enjoy or our own content.
This is somewhat a throwback of projects we were working on from previous years, especially my brother Jenno who was a proactive member of video editing and creative direction, as he was enrolled in Centennial College’s Game Design Program in 2010. Again, this was the time when YouTube started becoming popular among the general public in which many people started tuning into YouTube for entertainment purposes. To agree with that all three of us became more involved with YouTube like the general public became, YouTube became part of our lives and a place where we could attain our information through video format allowing us to get a clear picture on the topic we have searched about.
Enough of all that, back then we used to watch a lot of different types of videos whether they were game commentaries, music videos by different artists, comedic videos, etc. AMV’s were a hit for its time especially during an era where so much great anime content was readily available. One of them was D.Gray Man, one of my top favourites other than Gundam Wing and Seed/Seed Destiny, which is why this video was my pick over all the other AMV’s my brother has created. AMV’s are still popular now more than ever, but the impact it created on our younger technological generation, was due to the creativity of artistic and general public individuals whom were taken by different animes. These old AMV’s showed how easy it was to get into the scene back then, now the content is much more sophisticated and edited with high-quality professional programs. Don’t get me wrong the newer AMV’s are great, but these old AMV’s gave us substance and a story on how popular these types of videos became. We are in a society that is ever so changing with technology, we forget to stop and enjoy what we have created in the past to eventually lead to our futures.
So, to those who don’t know what AMV’s stand for it is Anime Music Videos, you can search a whole lot of them on YouTube as there are many past and present creators of AMV’s. Anime is a film or television animation composing of many different genres such as romance, comedy, action, etc. These different anime’s gave us a break away from the constant worries of our world and into a fantasy world that may be difficult to depict in reality. This very aspect is why we enjoyed anime as a whole and why we still currently enjoy them. Although, I have moved onto other things, there isn’t once in awhile I still revert back to my anime-self in which I start to miss the things I did in the past. Hence the link between music videos and anime is a key feature to the lasting impact anime’s had on our creative minds. Many of us got involved with creating these videos as we became so invested in the anime itself that we couldn’t stop thinking about it (like me and my thoughts of Batman haha ^__^). Creating these music videos gave us an outlet of how different anime entertained us and how we would like to reproduce this entertainment to others by sharing it via different video media outlets to reproduce the same effects. In a sense, it allowed us to express our moods, and feelings we may be experiencing at the moment in a creative aspect but also gave us an outlet to pour our creative notions of expressivity into. It gave us time away from the real-world in a sense it gave us power to create and manipulate aspects of the fantasy we normally see in animes. Not only that, many creators may watch a particular scene and see different scenes that show different feelings/expressions and would like to tweak or manipulate with the scene via voice over commentary or music which was the prime source of expressivity. Linking music and anime became a way to express our hidden feelings about the anime itself or life for that matter. So for any of you out there, if you need a way to escape go watch AMV’s, or any music videos of different topics or genres for that matter or even the anime itself, it will always be a place to entertain and enjoy and escape the pressures of the real world.
You may think anime is not for everyone, I agree but give it a chance, maybe these expressive ways of showing interest of entertainment will help you get hooked! I hope you enjoy the video for what it was in its time and the effort and work you could do with basic programs like windows movie maker. I know I did and still do! It will always hold a place in my heart and memory of the things we could do back then! Times may be changing but we can always enjoy things in our past!
If you would like to visit my brother’s channel to see his past projects it is:
Youtube Channel (Jenno) ~ http://www.youtube.com/user/Gaddesa
Go Visit it although there is a small amount of videos, I hope he can post more and create more artistic things whether they be drawing, editing, or in any art format for that matter. Have a good rest of the weekend guys! Enjoy 🙂
xoxo Donna.
côtés infinis. 