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What Are Anime Music Videos?

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.

Rogue Intellect Productions

Every so often, check back here, I'm going to have a featured video by my favorite director (family relations play no part, I swear). All of his videos are downloadable from AnimeMusicVideos.org

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Kill Excel

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Director's Comments

Only Excel would bring a knife to a gun fight.

That having been said - Kill Excel happens when you look at the calendar and realize you only have three weeks to go before a major con deadline, the video you've been working on since LAST YEAR is about 10% done, and your job has just taken a huge chunk of your life energy and refuses to return it. So I did what I always do: I went for a walk. Suddenly it struck me - I'd never seen anybody do a multi-music, single-series AMV (and then I dl'ed Azumanga DIE-OH, so that blew that idea out of the water ::oops::). Also, I've long held on to the belief that one could take any song, EVER, and make a good AMV using Excel Saga footage. (I might smell a challenge!)

OK, Bang Bang popped into my head - a natural for the relationship between Ilpalazzo and Excel, the end segment was next, and so I just decided to "Kill Excel" for a while. It was easier than "Killing Il'"...

The interludes come from the bowling episode, and yes, they do run back and forth several times (although Nabeshin-sensei is alot better at continuity than I am ::wink:: - my favorite joke in the whole thing is "Shouldn't we have come from the other direction?").

This version is slightly different than the Otakon version. I changed the first title card to say "In the next 3:00" instead of "In 2005", just to stay timely. I had the outro ready, but submitted a version without it to the contest because it seemed too much like a bumper, which is against the contest rules (although one video made it in with a trailing bumper).

I'd like to thank my sister for helping me track down the music. She even got some songs that I didn't wind up using ("Oren Ishii" and the Three's Company theme song, for example). Thanks, Kate!