new video category?

Locked
User avatar
AbsoluteDestiny
Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2001 1:56 pm
Location: Oxford, UK
Contact:
Org Profile

Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:43 am

OK, let's leave semantics and get to the root of the problem.

The Categories for videos are not there to tell you how you will feel having watched a video. A "comedy" does not predetermine laughter.

The categories are there to label what the creator *tried* to do. They *tried* to make a comedy, or they *tried* to parody the flintstones, or they *tried* to make an accurate portrayal of an anime character.

Trying to portray angst, however valid it may sound, on one hand is a too specific version of Character Profile and on the other hand an impossible thing to achieve in terms of audience effect.

I can't accept "angst" as a category for what someone was trying to portray in the video because it is a subset of an already small genre - Character Profile.

Locked

Return to “Site Help & Feedback”