This is a simple reply to Thorgal, not an attack or argument with him, but he has brought this up a couple times so now I will address it and slporntube has a 500 character limit to it's reply's.
Thorgals Comment:
love ur use of real soundtracks. obviously effort was put in scenery and
avatars. My Only critic is something I myself find difficult in
creating these as well, SL avatars just standing around talking (with
subtitles or real sound) just arent that entertaining. I try to work
around that by fast changing scenes which unfortunately sometimes also
break the moviefeel, you use real soundtracks in great way. Overall we
are not there yet - first 3:30 were kind of static-boring because of
this.
Just an idea - it might improve a lot if you get lips moving? altho I know that also looks silly real quick.
The movie he was commenting on
Teacher’s Counseling, Bad School Girls
I'm not insulted or upset about this at all this is my full reply:
Emily:
I have never like subtitles; I would rather the viewer watch
than read a story. So in my beginning I tried to make movies where they visual implied
the story, but the problem with that was I had people staring at each other and
seemingly telepathically saying “lets fuck”.
My first movie with large amounts of dialog I pointed the
camera at the person being talked to, not the person talking just so I could
avoid the nonmoving lips, but that became confusing because it was hard to
follow who was saying what.
Even if the lips were moving it would look like for say an
American movie with Dutch voice actors and actresses dubbing voices over it, and then I’m
sure you and others would complain that the lips don’t match the words or sounds.
We are all amateurs here doing the best we can with the limitations
of a virtual world, this is how I choose to tell a story beyond the “Lets fuck”
stare. I’m sure many agree that a story is a waste of time in porn, but I’m not
creating this to get off. SL porn is pale in comparison to RL porn, I watch
SL porn to see the creativity that people come up with and not the sex
animations.
Maybe it’s a woman thing.
I do think your movies are some of the very best Thorgal,
but they are not the only way to make machinima. Perhaps someday the virtual world
will be equal to the RL one and when that happens we will no longer need RL
actors or actresses.