I'd like to just throw out something to those who DO read and request at this point in time, because someone brought up a pretty good point, and although at first I was thinking it might be too direct, but now I thought about it more...
Lately we're been getting some rather... odd requests. I mean odder than usual.
Now, I'm not particularly discriminating, but it IS rather odd to be asked to shoot Go My Way multiple times in a row with very minor changes, as the most recent example. There's other ones too.
It brings the question of 'Well, what are you using the video for?'
In part it concerns me because if the ultimate goal is a MAD/AMV implementation, then NOT asking for higher quality video just strikes me as somewhere in the vicinity of 'You're doing MAD/AMV work wrong'.
Youtube slices the frame rate in TWO (namely from 59.94 to 29.97) and enforces a pretty bad compression (3000kbps max for 720p). In short, anyone using Youtube video to splice into a MAD/AMV deserves to be shot, on general principles.
If you ARE planning to do MAD/AMV work (and there are a couple who are, and a couple of others who I personally think SHOULD be looking into it) get in contact with me and we'll arrange a better solution. I work with MAD creators, and being asked to shoot 20+ videos with very specific requirements is par for the course.
(It's in part why the compendium exists - you ANY idea how difficult it is to fill requests enmasse when you can't speak the same language?)
If you're NOT doing MAD/AMV work, the question becomes 'Well, what's the plan with the video?' I'm not particularly attached to it, it's just, well, if you have something in mind, I'd like to know that it's being used effectively.
If you're doing it to test me, it's a poor way of doing it, simply because well, see the note about the sorts of people I deal with. When you get a request with a page of camera shot notes, randomly throwing numbers at me isn't really hard in comparison.
So I'm proposing that a requests test is put in place. Sufficiently abnormal requests will be subject to a 'show cause' in legal parlance. In layman's terms, I'm going to ask 'So what is the plan anyway?'
What do you guys think?
