Unfortunately - most people aren't funny enough for that 12 seconds to be worth while. Instead of a cream pie in the face and everyone laughing - it's more like watching some kids doing whippits and staring at the camera saying - i'm a importan', people know me. watch out. (end of transmission)
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's a niche, but I understand the ADD production mentality. > For Dragon*ConTV, we have a maximum time limit of two minutes for a > clip. Most of what we produce is 30 seconds in length (due to spoofing > commercials). We make exceptions for our few music videos, but the > main video clips are time limited. > > Audience ADD is one reason we set the time limit. People come & go at > Dragon*Con events, so a 10 minute joke won't work there (yeah, we > produce for a live audience as well as an internet audience ... very > rare these days). > > The really big reason we set the time limit is comedic punch ... what > I call the "hit them with a cream pie and run" rule. Some of the ideas > we have are funny when they're short, but hard to flesh out in a > longer spot. And, if you try to stretch the joke, it's like chewing > the same piece of gum for too long ... eventually the flavor dies and > it ends up on the bottom of someone else's shoe. We describe it as > "SNL Syndrome" (many Saturday Night Live jokes would be funnier if > they stopped sooner). > > Robot Chicken excels at the 10 second gag. It's not the entire show, > but ti works for some of their jokes. Short and funny has it's place, > unless it's Verne Troyer in yet another Mike Myers movie. > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:36 AM, darbycoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > has anyone else checked this out? i see that they're trying to take > > the success (if you will) of seesmic and combine it what that of > > twitter (its brevity). but are we really that ADD that we NEED to > > compress the time frame to 12 seconds? i think its novel but that's > > about it. > > > > as a culture - we're all about expedience - but in condensing and > > condensing the time frames in which we communicate are we changing how > > we communicate? personally - i've been watching a lot of longer > > format films/documentaries/etc lately because i've been feeling a need > > for something with depth/breadth/context/landscape. > > > > do you see value in 12seconds.tv? or is it just another niche thing. > > > > cheers > > scott > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ================ > Brian Richardson > - http://siliconchef.com > - http://dragoncontv.com > - http://whatthecast.com > - http://www.3chip.com >
