Dealing with rudeness.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:51 pm

Voices_Of_Ryan wrote:*lots of stuff*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:54 pm

You know, I would also like to see what it would be like to get booed. Perhaps if either of my vids makes it to the screen at a certain con in a day from now, I'll have a chance to test that possibility...

Nah, I'd mostly ignore any sort of negative response. I may not feel good about it, but I wouldn't really try and (overtly) make those who responded in the way they did feel bad about their response, either.

Or, as my favorite musician dealt with booing earlier this year...

If the booing gets louder, that's my cue to add some really low bass notes - R.F.

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:54 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
Voices_Of_Ryan wrote:*lots of stuff*

You know you wanted to hear it.

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:00 am

post-it wrote:. I wouldn't worry too much about those who are rude,
I'd be more afraid of how to respond to "Dead Silence" as a responce!

.... At Awa... King Of Spayn... Girlfriend...and Crying Angel..

all got a Dead Silent reaction.. Not 1 clap... (not even I) and if you dont believe me... i have it on tape...

Kurumi and the Chipmunks though, got 3 people lightly clapping for 8.736 seconds...

I Have failed as an AMV creator!

Coffee 54 · Post by **Coffee 54** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:30 am

AMV_4000 wrote:Kurumi and the Chipmunks though, got 3 people lightly clapping for 8.736 seconds...

Harsh, I think I'd rather have the silence. One, or very few people clapping just draws attention to the fact that no one else is.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:17 am

Coffee 54 wrote:
AMV_4000 wrote:Kurumi and the Chipmunks though, got 3 people lightly clapping for 8.736 seconds...
Harsh, I think I'd rather have the silence. One, or very few people clapping just draws attention to the fact that no one else is.

Isn`t that the sad truth.

I don`t worry too much about negative response for 4 reasons:

1. I make the vids for myself, not for other people, so as long as I like them I don`t really care
2. If you try pleasing everyone with a video it will suck and please no one
3. Some people just boo to piss you off
4. People who really care will probably not just say "boy it sucked, I think my lunch is coming out for a visit". They`ll comment on what went wrong (e.g. "the sync was a little off", or "the video was a little blurry")

If all else fails, you can follow Voices_of_Ryan`s suggestion.

Voices_of_Ryan wrote:Alright listen... Heres what you do.

If anyone boo's you, you walk over to them, stare them slowly in the eyes. Ask them why... oh why he(or she?) boo'ed you. Then if he gives no resonable anwser. You lean back and act like arnold swartzanager.
You lean over back into his face... And you punch him (anime style?).

You get up and you throw him to the side of the room, and you get all your friends to dog pile the SOB. When the cops finally come in, you have a legit excuse... I mean... He DID provoke you.

... WHat? It IS what you wanted to hear aint it?

Destruction is always fun.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:10 am

Otakon 2003. Hearing 6,000 people groaning when the title card for <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... v=17948>my video</a> came up. Keeping in mind that this was the first video of mine that I was really proud of, and somehow it was good enough to get me to the Otakon finals on my first try.

The video starts, dead silence. No boos, but silence.

The video continues. Dead silence.

Haruka goes airborne. This is with 30 seconds remaining in the video. For some reason, this is enough for everyone to start laughing.

'The End' title card comes up, applause.

I think I had several heart attacks over the course of those 3 and a half minutes...

quadir · Post by **quadir** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:39 am

dokool wrote:Otakon 2003. Hearing 6,000 people groaning when the title card for my video came up. Keeping in mind that this was the first video of mine that I was really proud of, and somehow it was good enough to get me to the Otakon finals on my first try.

The video starts, dead silence. No boos, but silence.

The video continues. Dead silence.

Haruka goes airborne. This is with 30 seconds remaining in the video. For some reason, this is enough for everyone to start laughing.

'The End' title card comes up, applause.

I think I had several heart attacks over the course of those 3 and a half minutes...

Edited Parent. Please don't use HTML in your posts, use BBCode.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:46 am

quadir wrote:Edited Parent. Please don't use HTML in your posts, use BBCode.

There isn't anything wrong with using the html tag he used in the forums. He just forgot a second set of parenthesis.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:47 am

Coffee 54 wrote:
AMV_4000 wrote:Kurumi and the Chipmunks though, got 3 people lightly clapping for 8.736 seconds...
Harsh, I think I'd rather have the silence. One, or very few people clapping just draws attention to the fact that no one else is.

Enjoy the silence.

dokool wrote:Otakon 2003. Hearing 6,000 people groaning when the title card for my video came up. Keeping in mind that this was the first video of mine that I was really proud of, and somehow it was good enough to get me to the Otakon finals on my first try.

The video starts, dead silence. No boos, but silence.

The video continues. Dead silence.

Haruka goes airborne. This is with 30 seconds remaining in the video. For some reason, this is enough for everyone to start laughing.

'The End' title card comes up, applause.

I think I had several heart attacks over the course of those 3 and a half minutes...

Heh. I guess my Otakon 2003 experience was kind of the opposite.

I didn't get to see my video played on Friday night, since it was near the end (being a comedy), and it was getting past midnight, and my dad (not knowing my video was in the contest) wanted to take the younger kids back to the truck stop, so the rest of us had to go too.

I did get to see my video played on Saturday afternoon... but it was in Video Room 1 instead of the main events room, and the audio balance was not good at all.

That's probably why my video got more laughs at its title card and intro than during the rest of it... because no one could hear the lyrics, and the video was entirely lyric-synched.

From the sound of the polite applause when the final title card came up, it sounded to me like people were more confused than anything.

And of course, the category was won by a video with no lyrics.

I learned my lesson... and applied it for Otakon 2004.