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GuerrillaDayProject said:
This is the place to watch random short films. I'll defer to my previous statement, but tack on a personal apology to you both. My frustration with the evolution of this video sharing platform (which was invented by two guys that wanted to share homemade videos of their cats) has little to do with the videos that you as individuals chose to produce. Pardon the rant, I didn't allow much room for empathy because this is a conversation I've been wrestling with in the six months that we've been on YouTube. Things we're much different when I was a music video producer six years ago, screen capture technology was really rare, so the producers that used it had to compete with traditional filmmakers and convince an audience that they were story tellers playing with games. After Machinema caught on, this sort of vlog caught on like wildfire. And where once 100,000 views was a piece of cake with a decently produced video, now the attention spans are divided further. Personally I want to hear more of your voices, without the limitation of a first person shooter droning on with staggered uncomplishments. Spawning again and again to prove that you've played the level more than the other gamers. There are great examples of what can be done with your medium-- creative dialogue put on top of otherwise banal game play can be write entertaining. A story about a midget substitute would be hilarious while playing Bully. I'm not trying to attack anyone personally, if I'm come off that way, I apologize, hadn't even thought of the emotional weight of fonts in forums-- honestly thought it was more interesting to look at and closer to the inflection of speech-- so much get's lost in the passionate presentation of ideas. Especially when "You Mad Bro" just about sums it up. I'll always be open to watching a well made video, this new facelift of YouTube makes it more important to socialize than to produce. So yeah my curmudgeonly view on the world needs to be presented less irately, because you gamers are people too, even if the industry has worked to shape us away from the social animal through redefining play.
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I can see the point of your frustration but it doesn't help to place that frustration on us. Like geez I just want to play my games and bring people in for the ride seeing as I do games I have not played before. Good luck with your movie producing goals.
 
zMink said:
There is less opportunity for gamers too, the more and more little 12 year old fags come and try to do what i do, the harder it is for anyone to be seen as unique
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NaturalPortman said:
He has a point lol. There's too many little cod boys running around youtube.
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To put my perspective into perspective, those 12 year olds are the ambassadors of your brand. I'm easily impressed when a kid makes a movie, but the video game screen capture is the exception. After hitting twenty, multiplayer video games lost their appeal because of the influx of children on servers, uncultivated vile tongued parentless monsters, these are our future. But they shouldn't be entitled to the future of our entertainment industry. We've already been in a downward spiral of regurgitation with remakes of anything that we called childhood. If there's little restraint as to what is said in or published as entertainment, this wave of YouTube-Fame (i.e. Not-Fame) Seekers will inherit the earth, and the sky is falling, and I just wanted to mention it.
 
zMink said:
Well i play other games too, but who is really good at it is MWN - http://youtube.com/user/ModernWarNegro He to me is the funniest gamer alive
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This is really good work. I subscribed, and will continue to subscribe to those that blend the medium of presentation with screen capture as a medium in addition to. Though I will exercise less scrutiny against screen capture purists in the future, give them more than 20 seconds of attention-- because you made an excellent point about the limitations of available gear. If all that a filmmaker has is a capture device, and they are treating that footage the same way that a film editor would, then there's no reason to not acknowledge the craft. I'd like to encourage more people to create their original ideas without associating with corporate brands. But to look at our own analytics of our audiences, the videos that we have gained the most traffic from are parodies. Less people are willing to risk watching independent material, it's easier to watch something that you know you like. And in a post ReplyGirl youtube, even unearthing those views from good tags is becoming a task for Indiana Jones. (See those names dropped, idea wouldn't of worked without it-- nothing is original.)
 
GuerrillaDayProject said:
This is really good work. I subscribed, and will continue to subscribe to those that blend the medium of presentation with screen capture as a medium in addition to. Though I will exercise less scrutiny against screen capture purists in the future, give them more than 20 seconds of attention-- because you made an excellent point about the limitations of available gear. If all that a filmmaker has is a capture device, and they are treating that footage the same way that a film editor would, then there's no reason to not acknowledge the craft. I'd like to encourage more people to create their original ideas without associating with corporate brands. But to look at our own analytics of our audiences, the videos that we have gained the most traffic from are parodies. Less people are willing to risk watching independent material, it's easier to watch something that you know you like. And in a post ReplyGirl youtube, even unearthing those views from good tags is becoming a task for Indiana Jones. (See those names dropped, idea wouldn't of worked without it-- nothing is original.)
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Parodies in my opinion are easy to do because your making fun of something that a group of people spent millions advertising
 
GuerrillaDayProject said:
To put my perspective into perspective, those 12 year olds are the ambassadors of your brand. I'm easily impressed when a kid makes a movie, but the video game screen capture is the exception. After hitting twenty, multiplayer video games lost their appeal because of the influx of children on servers, uncultivated vile tongued parentless monsters, these are our future. But they shouldn't be entitled to the future of our entertainment industry. We've already been in a downward spiral of regurgitation with remakes of anything that we called childhood. If there's little restraint as to what is said in or published as entertainment, this wave of YouTube-Fame (i.e. Not-Fame) Seekers will inherit the earth, and the sky is falling, and I just wanted to mention it.
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Not nessecarily true, there are grown men in their 30s with kids who do what we do, but those 12 year olds arent all bad. some are ok, others you wish their mother would have swallowed, but thats how life is in the real world, there are always gonna be those people you dont like
 
zMink said:
Parodies in my opinion are easy to do because your making fun of something that a group of people spent millions advertising
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That exactly was my point, our success, if you can call it that, has been reliant on the same marketing, it's just filtered through our sketches rather than being the product itself amplified by a commentary track. I suppose I was trying to put the similarities into perspective, because at the end of the day, we're not the king makers, so much as the prawns. Sadly it may no longer be possible to gain an audience with a certain amount of barnacle'ng to the whales.
 
GuerrillaDayProject said:
That exactly was my point, our success, if you can call it that, has been reliant on the same marketing, it's just filtered through our sketches rather than being the product itself amplified by a commentary track. I suppose I was trying to put the similarities into perspective, because at the end of the day, we're not the king makers, so much as the prawns. Sadly it may no longer be possible to gain an audience with a certain amount of barnacle'ng to the whales.
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some people dont need parodies to be sucessful, look at http://youtube.com/hotdamnirock
 
zMink said:
some people dont need parodies to be sucessful, look at http://youtube.com/hotdamnirock
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Don't get me wrong only a few of our videos are parodies. I'm already subscribed to Kain's channel, funny thing relative to this discussion, is that his "Brotherly Love" Mario Parody was the video that one of our Guerrilla Day Players showed to me a few months back. That video that he remembered long enough to organically promote among co-workers was the reason I checked out HotDamnIRock's channel later and ended up subscribing.
 
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