This was my entry for the 3-day Souls Team IC this year.

For some inexplicable reason, this video was placed 19th in the action category. I was given criticism saying I shouldn't have used Magical Girl animes in the same AMV that has Shingeki no Kyojin in it...A very dumb criticism considering this AMV is a montage of action scenes, and the biggest skill of making a wide source-mixing montage is to pick out common scenes from the numerous different sources. Real editing and directing experts, like myself, Nostromo, Qyll, Quentin Tarintino, Alfred Hitchcock and Turbo-sama, know this. 

Anyway, I'll explain the structure of this AMV since it's more technical than meets the eye. 

-The first part wasn't random. It was me matching video to audio. The song is way more dark/mysetrious/serious in the first 40 secs than it is in the rest of the song. Therefore, the video is also deamatically different-toned in the first 40 secs than the rest of the amv. The next step was to be a genius and somehow transition from this dark tone to the fast-paced random action tone. (Which I accomplished with flying colours, of course.)
-The text I did wasn't a troll, it was the artful skill of breaking the fourth wall. Transitioning from a dark/serious/mysterious vibe to random fast-paced action isn't an easy thing to do. I had to be creative. So yeah, I did a joke and broke the 4th wall, similar to how the action anime most frequently used in this AMV (Gintama) always does. 
-Then of course it's fast-paced scenes of combat. Notice I don't use any scenes of people throwing energy attacks or beams. I keep it solely hand-to-hand (or armed) combat to emphasise fighting as being what is the biggest form of "action".
-Then the song starts to decrease in its energy but it still has an atmosphere of energy being "loaded". I therefore do this with the video too. Notice how I only use scenes of people charging their attacks/charing at their opponents for all the slow-mo scenes. 
-Then the song reaches arguably its peak of intensity. The drums go wild and so does the video. I use scenes of characters unleashing large beams and energy attacks as a way of following up on the previous phase of characters "about to attack". I also use a lot of crossfades. Crossfades are typically used by people during slow parts of AMVs. But i used them during the very intense part. Why? Well using many crossfades consecutively between different scenarious creates a senseation of simultaneity (means happening at the same time). And this is what I wanted to show, that there is a massive surge of power being unleashed after having shown you guys multiple characters "charging" their attacks. It amplifies the intensity. Also the judges say there wasn't sync in this section. Lmao, if you watch properly you'll see every snare is hit in some way, either internally or through something like an edited flash.
-Then the song goes into a phase of "sudden impacts". So I use only scenes of explosion to represent this. But I also make the video black and white because the music clearly starts to sound a little "emptier" than before. I present this in the video by muting the colours.
-Then we go back to the song having that very fast pace like in the beginning, and so I also take the video back to how it was in the beginning. Fast-paced scenes of hand to hand (or armed) combat. And then the amv finishes with my sexi boi Jotaro.

Phew....You might think "why would a nigga put so much technicalities into a random action amv?" Well, I can't help it. It's not like I consciously planned the video out like this. I just did it. And upon analysis is when I always see the magnificence that I give birth to. Like, be it meticulously organising your porn folder or syncing music with chinese cartoons...when you are a man/woman of the Enigmo species, you will always behave in this masterful manner.

Amen.