watched a youtube about why streaming videos suck so much, really interesting. basically the entire construction of the movie is based around super fine-grained streaming metrics. and those metrics say "make ocean's eleven, over and over and over again, and make sure something happens every 30 seconds or people will close the tab"
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14and of course, you have to vocally narrate everything because you can't even be sure the person "enjoying" the movie is even looking at the screen.
@sun Interesting. I noticed this in the only series I've watched in the last few years, always something going on. A bright reflection, something dangling in the wind, etc.
No still frames. This is probably what they meant with "attention economy"
No still frames. This is probably what they meant with "attention economy"
anonther factor: several big streaming movies were bought from hollywood movie companies, who didn't think that the movie would do good.
the way movies are consumed, a big budget movie on netflix with a big name is a thumbnnail. they already got your money, you paid for the streaming service.
The guy kind of plagiarized a Red Letter Media idea about streaming. A lot of movies and shows on streaming aren't meant to really be consumed, they are there to fill out the buffet table. new content churn to psychologically prime you.
the way movies are consumed, a big budget movie on netflix with a big name is a thumbnnail. they already got your money, you paid for the streaming service.
The guy kind of plagiarized a Red Letter Media idea about streaming. A lot of movies and shows on streaming aren't meant to really be consumed, they are there to fill out the buffet table. new content churn to psychologically prime you.
@miscbrains @sun Man, we're fucked
>Movies are made for people with no attention span
>Video games are made with mostly 0 difficulty, along with a baby "I don't really want to play the game" mode
Go do something else jesus christ
>Movies are made for people with no attention span
>Video games are made with mostly 0 difficulty, along with a baby "I don't really want to play the game" mode
Go do something else jesus christ
@miscbrains @sun Man, we're fucked
>Movies are made for people with no attention span
>Video games are made with mostly 0 difficulty, along with a baby "I don't really want to play the game" mode
Go do something else jesus christ
>Movies are made for people with no attention span
>Video games are made with mostly 0 difficulty, along with a baby "I don't really want to play the game" mode
Go do something else jesus christ
@miscbrains @sun I saw either Brad Pitt or Matt Damon saying that streaming is killing film for this reason, they're stuck making movies to be background noise for while people doomscroll on their phone. It kills any attempt at storytelling.
@condret @miscbrains @sun No, I want these fuckers to do something else so that they can make movies for people who watch them, and video games for people who wants to actually play them
@sun @miscbrains @condret @coolboymew I remember when the term “content creator” started taking off and I really didn’t like it from the beginning, and I guess this is exactly why.
@sun There's another thing too. A lot of modern movies and animations from very big studios are Portrait oriented, if you pay attention most of the movie are centered in a way that you can easily clip, remix or advertise on tiktok and alike platforms, the most egregious ones are the last pixar movies
@miscbrains @sun I wonder to what degree this is actually true and to what degree streaming services think this is true. Studio execs were infamous for thinking audiences were stupid even before streaming became a thing. It's kind of hard to prove since they usually won't tell you how their productions perform but I've heard about instances where they did show some stats and apparently the most popular thing on Netflix are movies from the 90s.
@besserwisser @miscbrains it probably is a hard conversation: why do our movies have to be made to hold attention in 30 second increments, but old movies actually get people to sign up for the service at all
@sun I remembered this video on the subject now that the thread popped up again, it was interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwPKBXEOKE
It just fails to mention something that i personally noticed these last years: 3D movies forces the focus to be very close and you can't do anything interesting in the background with it because it would fuck up the 3D, this forces only to have everything upfront and nothing that could bring more life in the background.
It just fails to mention something that i personally noticed these last years: 3D movies forces the focus to be very close and you can't do anything interesting in the background with it because it would fuck up the 3D, this forces only to have everything upfront and nothing that could bring more life in the background.