MayDay1
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What are some of the things that can wreck a tickle video and subsequently bury the producer? Here's my short list:
• A ler who tries to make themselves the focus. Usually the ler just doesn't shut up and you can't hear the lee but it's worse when the ler is constantly making really awful jokes that wouldn't be funny to a five year old. Nobody watches videos for the ler, just tickle, shut up, and get out of the way.
• Scenarios that drag out too long. Sometimes a vid will have a story to go with it, and that's fine and dandy. But when you have an 8 minute vid and 5 minutes is set up, red flag. If a producer wanted to make stories then they should have gotten into actual films.
• Bad acting. If the producer insists on having a scene play out for the love of god hire models who can pull it off. A video is instant death when the models are told to act out a scenario, are obviously not trained thespians, and even worse, have to improvise the dialog. I'm sure we've all had to sit through a scene where the dialog is nothing but "Yeah...I know....sure....yeah."
• Models with no personality. I don't care how attractive a model is, if they have the 1000 yard stare of a guernsey cow and speaks in total monotone then it kills the video dead.
• Producers who insult their audience. There is a specific producer who is notorious for throwing hissy fits when he is not greeted with total admiration, not the greatest way of conducting business. If you hold your audience, the people who will be supporting your production, in contempt then don't expect to be in business long. This is something that should be common sense but every so often a producer will pop up who will public lambast their audience for having the gall to putting them on the spot for a less than satisfactory video.
• A ler who tries to make themselves the focus. Usually the ler just doesn't shut up and you can't hear the lee but it's worse when the ler is constantly making really awful jokes that wouldn't be funny to a five year old. Nobody watches videos for the ler, just tickle, shut up, and get out of the way.
• Scenarios that drag out too long. Sometimes a vid will have a story to go with it, and that's fine and dandy. But when you have an 8 minute vid and 5 minutes is set up, red flag. If a producer wanted to make stories then they should have gotten into actual films.
• Bad acting. If the producer insists on having a scene play out for the love of god hire models who can pull it off. A video is instant death when the models are told to act out a scenario, are obviously not trained thespians, and even worse, have to improvise the dialog. I'm sure we've all had to sit through a scene where the dialog is nothing but "Yeah...I know....sure....yeah."
• Models with no personality. I don't care how attractive a model is, if they have the 1000 yard stare of a guernsey cow and speaks in total monotone then it kills the video dead.
• Producers who insult their audience. There is a specific producer who is notorious for throwing hissy fits when he is not greeted with total admiration, not the greatest way of conducting business. If you hold your audience, the people who will be supporting your production, in contempt then don't expect to be in business long. This is something that should be common sense but every so often a producer will pop up who will public lambast their audience for having the gall to putting them on the spot for a less than satisfactory video.
