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There are interesting conversations going on about absolutedestiny''s Escapade vid here and there. I especially enjoyed this thread on elke-tanzer's LJ best. Though her comment, "I mean, how many other vids could I have been thinking about and commenting on rather than getting completely tangled up in discussing the presentation choices of this one? caused me to think: if attention/credit is one of the most precious payments we have in this society, sometimes it seems that we reward behavior we don't mean to. (I'm not talking about absolutedestiny' here, but if people who want the vid show to be a happy place of snogging boys give all of their after-the-vid-show attention to the person who brings the vid that fucks them up -- well, next time vidder b wants attention, why shouldn't she bring a vid that fucks you up?)
And in a slight change of topic, people have mentioned more than once that they'd be okay with violent/aggressive/fierce vids, if there was some kind of (non-mandatory) warning. And even with the "non-mandatory" stuck in there, I can see vidders backs stiffening.
I don't know what other people mean when they use that phrase, but what *I* mean is, "using the title to give a feel for what's coming." To continue to use absolutedestiny as an example, before his Revenge vid, he had a title credit that showed a classic frame of one of those movies, with dramatic, over-the-top text. Just what I'm talking about.
My only gripe with West of her Spine is that I didn't know that it was Dexter, and I didn't realize it was Dexter until long after I was completely creeped out. (The lead character wasn't in the first minute plus of the vid.) If she'd had any Dexter iconography at all in the title, I'd have been fine.
There were definitely fans who loved the 15 vid. So, a perfect title would have been one that attracted them, and provided a "hmm, I'm not sure this is my kind of thing" to others. Credits that made a little more of a deal about the source would, I think, have made the vid less controversial.
(And yes, sometimes you *want* your titles to undercut/comment on your vid. But I would argue that the first vid in a new source shouldn't be that time.)
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And in a slight change of topic, people have mentioned more than once that they'd be okay with violent/aggressive/fierce vids, if there was some kind of (non-mandatory) warning. And even with the "non-mandatory" stuck in there, I can see vidders backs stiffening.
I don't know what other people mean when they use that phrase, but what *I* mean is, "using the title to give a feel for what's coming." To continue to use absolutedestiny as an example, before his Revenge vid, he had a title credit that showed a classic frame of one of those movies, with dramatic, over-the-top text. Just what I'm talking about.
My only gripe with West of her Spine is that I didn't know that it was Dexter, and I didn't realize it was Dexter until long after I was completely creeped out. (The lead character wasn't in the first minute plus of the vid.) If she'd had any Dexter iconography at all in the title, I'd have been fine.
There were definitely fans who loved the 15 vid. So, a perfect title would have been one that attracted them, and provided a "hmm, I'm not sure this is my kind of thing" to others. Credits that made a little more of a deal about the source would, I think, have made the vid less controversial.
(And yes, sometimes you *want* your titles to undercut/comment on your vid. But I would argue that the first vid in a new source shouldn't be that time.)
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