I think I still have something you could use for a horse that was loaned to me at AWA...Pwolf wrote:Wait... cavalry? where's my horse?Ileia wrote:Settle down.
It has been and will continue to be taken either way. That's all there is to it. Nothing to need to argue or gather cavalry.
I think I saw that twice this weekend too... but you're still a villainess who inflicts dancing on poor unsuspecting souls...Ileia wrote:Well, you could watch another video to get it out of your head.
Perhaps.....this one?
Your spelling is normally fine, what do you have against horses?l33tmeatwad wrote:carvery... hourse
lol...sorry, wasn't using my typical browser that implements spell check and a few things slipped through due to not proof readingWarlike Swans wrote:Your spelling is normally fine, what do you have against horses?l33tmeatwad wrote:carvery... hourse
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I respect your boldness to share your opinion.Pwolf wrote:On a side note, I don't chime in because someone wants me to. Ileia didn't ask me to ride in on my white horse (I don't even own a horse... ;_;). I did so of my own free will and desire to put people in their place when they make stupid blanket comments that have no grounds for anything. What an editor (any editor) believes their video to be is up to them. It's up to the contest coordinator and viewers to decide if it lives up to that. Personally, I think the video is a drama video and should be judged as one. If I had watched it expecting a comedy, I wouldn't like it. If people think it's a comedy video, good for them but I don't look at the sources and make them decide for me how good the video is or what genre it belongs in.
I never said that all content has to be that way, but anything that's written as comedy takes WAY more legwork to pull it OUT of comedy and not make it funny, and in most cases is impossible. The reverse, however, is much easier to do. I think you completely misunderstand me by the point I have made on ONE video. I completely agree with your point about using just a funny song just to get laughs and I agree that more depth should be put into a video when attempting to use such source material. A lot of people in the community are all about "this technical aspect has to be executed this way" but they completely ignore the "conceptual" aspect of putting a video together do just slap things together with a funny song without putting much though into what they are pairing it with.Pwolf wrote:I don't necessarily disagree with your opinion, I think it's misguided and detrimental to the hobby. A lot more people then I would like think this way and it's a bad, backwards way of thinking (in my opinion at least). If all you see when you watch a video is what type of song you're listening to or what the sources are, you're not actually looking at the video for what it is. It's like using a funny song but not really doing anything in terms of making the actual content any good. Sure you might get a laugh but overall the video is terrible. AMV fans can get away with calling those videos good but we as editors and judges should be better than that. Well at least I wish we were.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to to push all that aside and look for something more. Perhaps it's easier for some of us and harder for others. The original video is not dry humor, its on the farce/melodrama/satire spectrum. Serial Experiments Lain actually is a drama so Bleak Friday can't utilize the same type of exaggeration, and I think that's why it can go either way.l33tmeatwad wrote:
That said, I will say this about the video (and I'll leave it to that). The fact that the song is a parody of a song that no one could take seriously due to many different reasons, and the original artists put together music video that was very dry humor using a "serious" tone to match the way that a "serious" tone was used to implement dry humor in the song.
