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kx · Post by kx » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:28 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1P2hrCLZ4

FHM robot shoot

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andoroido · Post by **andoroido** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:02 am

It's either great or torture.

100 girls, and none of them can do the dance well,
and spend most of the time giggling.
Cameraman has hyperactive zoom in/out disorder
and MTV 1-cut-per-second editing.

It's my Murphy's Law of Youtube
99% of all videos made for Youtube will be unwatchable:
poor lighting, no tripod, bad editing, bad sound,
bad resolution, too much giggling, too much screwing around
with the camera, too much screwing around with SFX...

and number one - NO TALENT in front of or behind the camera.

Doctor Robo · Post by **Doctor Robo** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:43 am

I think you're forgetting the most important part of YouTube... it's FREE. I find it hard to be hypercritical of anything on YouTube when all that is asked in return is your eyes and your time.

andoroido · Post by **andoroido** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:34 pm

Youtube is even better than Hollywood at ASFR letdowns.
I know it's "free" (except for our wasted time and effort)
and amateur - so no high expectations.
This is the beginning of the video-exhibitionist hobby, hopefully
the quality will improve as everyone, including the people posting their
videos, realize how crappy their first efforts are.

I see a crappy robot video from some random person with a video camera and a Youtube account, I'm not let down, it's expected.

But this case was particularly bad precisely because it
was made by "professionals" of some sort working for FHM,
and 100 models, probably getting paid a bit, too.
Yet they still made a terrible video, which probably explains why these "pros" are making free videos rather than working in Hollywood.

KingJeremy · Post by **KingJeremy** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:54 pm

I don't think this was supposed to be anything great to begin with. i'm not a huge soccer (football) fan but i believe this was done as an homage to an English soccer player named Peter Crouch who sometimes does a little robot celebration dance after he scores a goal. I think the girls and the staff were just having some fun with it, what with all the World Cup fever going on and Crouch's and England's perfomances overall being very good up to this point.

Doctor Robo · Post by **Doctor Robo** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:35 pm

I just went to take another look at the clip and it looks like it's been pulled from the site.

andoroido · Post by **andoroido** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:39 am

I guess it's just a general pet peeve of mine, and I'm making way too big a deal of it.

People doing a half-assed job, or not even trying, even when having fun they aren't *serious* about having fun.

Trying and sucking is way better than the suck of not trying.

Does that make any sense?

tascl111 · Post by **tascl111** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:57 am

very true, any one know of any good robot vids on youtube, start up scenes, etc?