What's up with blatantly uncreative titles?

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:18 pm

Good point, Arigatomyna. Call it my anal attention to detail, but it seems that using Anime -- Song is redundant as a title. That information is on the video info page, so it doesn't NEED to be in the title. I suppose since I'm an artist as well (drawing), it's also a matter of presentation to me. While the title may not be something terribly original (like using a line in the song's chorus that seems to fit your video's theme; perfectly good way to arrive at a title), having a good title (one that is actually related to your piece without being corny) says to me "This person actually thought about their creation", thus I'm more likely to download it. For me, seeing "Rurouni Kenshin -- Unforgiven -- Metallica" is almost as bad as "Untitled."

I click on it anyway if it looks like a good combination. But when I see an Anime -- Song -- Artist title, my expectations sink like the Lusitania

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:23 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:It's just ..... a title.

Yes. But, being the title, it's also the first thing a lot of people will see when trying to decide whether or not to download your video.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:58 pm

N0T F0R ME

So I could care a fucken less. Please don't disregard the fact there there's a lot of good videos with "shitty titles" and vice versa. And each opinion to it's own when it comes to what a shitty title is and what isn't.

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:02 pm

That'd be funny if someone made a video called "Shitty Title".

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:06 pm

paizuri wrote:That'd be funny if someone made a video called "Shitty Title".

There already is one...it's TEH FIRST VIDEO YOU'LL EVER MAKE IF YOU EVER MAKE ONE, WHICH YOU WON'T.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:13 pm

STIFF COMPETITION

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:26 pm

BishounenStalker wrote:For me, seeing "Rurouni Kenshin -- Unforgiven -- Metallica" is almost as bad as "Untitled."

Wasn't there a video called "Self-Titled" that was actually really good? (I haven't seen it...)

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:28 pm

Scintilla wrote:
BishounenStalker wrote:For me, seeing "Rurouni Kenshin -- Unforgiven -- Metallica" is almost as bad as "Untitled."
Wasn't there a video called "Self-Titled" that was actually really good? (I haven't seen it...)

Kusoyaro did that, and yes, it is very good

I still remember seeing it premier at AWA last year, along with Sappy Self-Indulgence.

Granted, some of the titles of videos aren't the most..."creative," they're just titles, and shouldn't reflect the quality of the video.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:50 pm

Scintilla wrote:
BishounenStalker wrote:For me, seeing "Rurouni Kenshin -- Unforgiven -- Metallica" is almost as bad as "Untitled."
Wasn't there a video called "Self-Titled" that was actually really good? (I haven't seen it...)

Funny thing about that video is that I would have used the song title if I could have...but there were 3 songs

So "Self-Titled" was just a joke title that literally has no meaning...it probably just confuses people.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:04 pm

My first two vids were self-titled ("Warning (Asuka Remix)" and "Fine Again"), and then when I was working on See Ya Later, Naota, I came up with that title and decided to run with it, and it worked. Usually finding a song lyric and adjusting it for the title gives it at least a bit of creativity.

Oh, and when I see one of those Anime - Song titles, I know not to download it in the first place. If we can't have flashing lights above videos that say "NEWBIE!", we can at least have bad titles.

-DOKool