Amv Genres and MEPs
We have categorized AMVs into 3 of their main kinds before, so people who are unfamiliar with them may have a better understanding of what kind of AMVs they can find. But the community further divides AMVs into genres. Just like cinema and other forms of art, an AMV can be called action, horror, comedy, psychedelic, psychological, dance, romance, drama, sci-fi, trailer and etc. Of course many times there are mixes between genres. In many contests, the judging is divided into each respective category and in the end an overall ranking is published. In AMVs there is a special category called “MEP” that is a short for Multiple Editor Project, in which the song is divided into parts and every person edit a certain amount of the song with a unified concept.
In this example every editor’s part last 25 seconds and everyone is showcasing the theme of “victim” in their parts. In MEPs its very important for the parts to be consistent. Since there are many different animes in it, edited by different people, it’s is very easy for a part to stand out due to the anime’s artstyle, destroying the balance of the video. As a solution, editors color correct their parts to look similar and adjust their pacing of the song to be the same in every part. Usually, in MEPs, editors use different animes to avoid using the same scenes and to have a variety of footage, after all A MEP is a project in which people showcase the same concept in their own interpretation. On the other hand there are MEPs that attempted to have a more unified concept, by using the same anime, an example:
or using the same protagonist and creating their own universe in which their story is taking place.
In this example every editor used the same protagonist in their parts whie the secondary animes are changed every time. In essence, every part is a mini crossover.













