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05/08/2006 09:59:27 AM · #76 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Aye that. How many movie posters have you seen where the plot is blatantly obvious from a single photo? Just a random sampling from my DVD collection: Mullholland Drive, Office Space, Boondock Saints, The Matrix, Big Fish, Whale Rider... there isn't much you can figure out from any of them. Maybe a mood, maybe a genre, but not much to connect the image to the title or tell you what's actually going on. The ability to build interest and/or intrigue and get the butts in the seats is what makes a movie poster good. But I think that lack of clarity is what's likely hurting all of us. We have the whole story in our heads, and we know why the cat is rolling around in purple donuts, and in the real world it might be the Disney tweener hit of the year. But to the average DPC voter, who has a totally different mindset, it just ends up looking like a mess. |
It's even worse than that. My picture does relate to the title and hints at the plot in a very clear way, but is still being voted down precisely for the dramatic and stylistic elements that make it an intriguing poster, because they go against the eyecandy esthetic that rules this domain.
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05/08/2006 10:00:09 AM · #77 |
or at least... that's my wild speculation and I'm sticking to it! :P
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05/08/2006 10:00:14 AM · #78 |
Originally posted by Jutilda:
Really? I found most of them DNMC in my opinion. It has to depict a possible movie to me and something funny with a quirky title doesn't do that but maybe I'm being harsh. I tried to go in very open minded, but I'm finding more than not to be just a description of a photo, NOT a potential movie theme. Maybe I'll go through them all again today but that's how I am seeing it at this point. Sorry, I don't mean to be a hag. |
i'm thinking along the same lines. a good shot will get a 5, but if actually looks like a poster image, then it starts to go up...
haven't started voting yet, just perusing...
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05/08/2006 10:01:28 AM · #79 |
Originally posted by Jutilda:
...maybe I'm being harsh. ... Sorry, I don't mean to be a hag. |
You're harshing my buzz, man. ;-)
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05/08/2006 10:02:06 AM · #80 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
I think this challenge is handicapped by the inability to add text to the poster, as was the case in the DPC Album Cover challenge of a few years ago. |
Nah, I think the complaints were similar back then. |
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05/08/2006 10:17:12 AM · #81 |
Originally posted by meanwile:
The way you'd work up a photo for use on a movie poster probably isn't the same that you'd do it for a straight photo. The image for a movie poster is going to be stylized, exaggerated, moody. Rather than voting on the straight photography, this is one challenge where the image's communication should be the primary focus.
Additionally, this was a real double-whammy of a challenge - these letters are very difficult to work with, even for a regular title, and to have to make that title suggest a story instead of just a photo... aarrgh.
Only the brave entered this contest, and it looks like we're gonna get beat-up somethin' good. |
oh. i agree 100% ... my entry doesn't look like a photo at all, it looks like ...ummm ... lemme think ... errm, yes. It looks like a movie poster :-)
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05/08/2006 10:25:44 AM · #82 |
Hey! I think I just got a "5" vote! Awesome. Thanks!
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05/08/2006 10:27:40 AM · #83 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Hey! I think I just got a "5" vote! Awesome. Thanks! |
fantastic. i got 4. :-)
Votes: 43
Views: 66
Avg Vote: 4.0000
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 05/08/06 10:10 am
better than 2 actually, right ?
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05/08/2006 10:28:51 AM · #84 |
| My entry is being voted down for "this, that, and the other thing" I'm quite certain. ;^) This thread is a great read. He-he... |
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05/08/2006 10:29:28 AM · #85 |
Still very happy here :D
Votes: 46
Views: 106
Avg Vote: 6.4565
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
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05/08/2006 10:31:30 AM · #86 |
Originally posted by bvoi:
Votes: 13
Views: 34
Avg Vote: 5.5385
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 05/08/06 01:39am
Well, I started out terribly, but it has risen slowly. Lost of views to votes ratio. |
Votes: 54
Views: 92
Avg Vote: 5.1111
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 05/08/06 10:29 am
This is not looking good. I'm going to need some help after this is all done. |
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05/08/2006 10:35:12 AM · #87 |
On contrary to one comment I received. I first got the title then the photo. I got so worked up on the title and shooting for it, now I think I should've submitted the portrait oriented crop, which I did get. pfft.
Originally posted by Challenge Details:
Create a ficticious movie title using this criteria, and then shoot the photograph for your movie's debut poster. Be sure to title your submission the 3 words you came up with for the movie
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I did all that, in that order. What else do you voters want :)
Message edited by author 2006-05-08 10:35:47. |
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05/08/2006 10:37:13 AM · #88 |
Originally posted by Arti-Elvi:
Still very happy here :D
Votes: 46
Views: 106
Avg Vote: 6.4565
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0 |
as you should be...will hold up for sure...
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05/08/2006 10:45:35 AM · #89 |
yeah, it's the combination of the text and the image. i think they need to gibe, not just illustrate each other. and, ithink, a lot of the 'statement' titles would have done better if, like one entrant, they hade put (documentary) after their title.
it's a very hard challenge to score indeed.
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05/08/2006 11:01:14 AM · #90 |
Originally posted by xianart:
... a lot of the 'statement' titles would have done better if, like one entrant, they hade put (documentary) after their title. ... |
Hmmm...let me see if I can find that one.
edit: well, looks like it's one of two - which one? ;^)
Message edited by author 2006-05-08 11:05:54. |
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05/08/2006 11:06:12 AM · #91 |
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05/08/2006 11:32:12 AM · #92 |
| I need to stop looking at early votes. I've recovered my score at least, but I'm still quite a bit below my average vote received. |
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05/08/2006 11:36:14 AM · #93 |
Originally posted by Cutter:
Originally posted by Arti-Elvi:
Still very happy here :D
Votes: 46
Views: 106
Avg Vote: 6.4565
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0 |
as you should be...will hold up for sure... |
I really hope so! |
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05/08/2006 11:37:22 AM · #94 |
way to say nothin', doc .... don't be so superstitious ... gimme the numbers
:)
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I need to stop looking at early votes. I've recovered my score at least, but I'm still quite a bit below my average vote received. |
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05/08/2006 01:24:13 PM · #95 |
I'm not doing too bad.... but where in the submission guideline does it say that your movie has to be a certain type of movie? I didn't see anything saying that it had to a comedy, or a thriller or action or anything like that!!! I get a comment telling me that my entry would never be a movie! And that my title is dull? Hello, like Office Space is a super exciting title?
There are all types of movies. And not just movies for the theater... what about made for TV movies? There are all sorts of movies on ABC, Family Channel, Disney, National Geographic etc etc. We have to think out further. That is what I am doing.
So, yeah.... myabe I don't have an action thriller, but mine could be a movie!
ROAR!
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05/08/2006 01:51:29 PM · #96 |
Originally posted by nsoroma79:
I'm not doing too bad.... but where in the submission guideline does it say that your movie has to be a certain type of movie? I didn't see anything saying that it had to a comedy, or a thriller or action or anything like that!!! I get a comment telling me that my entry would never be a movie! And that my title is dull? Hello, like Office Space is a super exciting title?
There are all types of movies. And not just movies for the theater... what about made for TV movies? There are all sorts of movies on ABC, Family Channel, Disney, National Geographic etc etc. We have to think out further. That is what I am doing.
So, yeah.... myabe I don't have an action thriller, but mine could be a movie!
ROAR! |
Ah, the joy of giving comments. It's the gift that returns on you tenfold.
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05/08/2006 03:15:22 PM · #97 |
Votes: 60
Views: 92
Avg Vote: 6.1333
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 05/08/06 03:14 pm
Come on baby ... you can do it .. just gotta get above 6.3 ! |
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05/08/2006 04:12:05 PM · #98 |
doing much better than i expected considering it was another last minute entry which invloved no more than five minutes of editing. oh yeah first entry with 10d as well...
i was expecting to be in the fours, but well above that as of now ;}
Message edited by author 2006-05-08 16:12:31.
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05/08/2006 06:46:59 PM · #99 |
What a well-debated challenge. Unfortunately or fortunately we are in photographic challenge and not a graphic design or marketing challenge (with a different set of value's).
As far as my entry - the usual lack buster. Getting mostly positive comments with some critics pointing out things that I deliberately changed.
Votes: 77
Views: 107
Avg Vote: 5.3506
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 05/08/06 06:30 pm |
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05/08/2006 07:05:18 PM · #100 |
i'm really struggling with the scoring onthis one (still). i try and try to see a movie in all the images - whether doc, art house, action, noir, etc etc etc.
but some titles just illustrate the pic. so, i'm giving those a 5 for now (if good images) and i'll go back later and look again. is this mean of me? or am i being narrow because i really tried to do a filmic thing?
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