I wouldn't consider myself capable of giving a critical review so I wouldn't give a negative comment at all. *nods* I think that's still the best policy if you're not going to be giving critical reviews.
And you know, I think I must be sheltered or something because I don't think I've ever gotten flammed for any of the 11 vids I've posted over the years. I've gotten some critical reviews that have pointed out problems I once got a pretty useless beta that upset me but never anything I would consider a flame (for my vids).
Or is it? The best vid beta I ever had was someone who emailed me out of the blue and worked with me for a week on something I had considered finished. I have known a few people to go back and do remixes, and certainly some who have gone back and fixed a few things in fic, I just don't think you should go in and do a review with the expectation that the artist will go back and fix their work. I know that I would love to go back and fix up some of my vids, the thing is, I don't have the files any more so I'd have to start again from scratch. Even my more recent vids; the working file for a single vid can work out to be 80+ GBs with the source files and renderings. I just don't have the space to keep those on my computer and while I'd like for my vids to be perfect once I have it posted I'd prefer to move on to something new than to constantly be going back and fixing the old one up. Vids can also be tricky because people often save them to their computers and watch those versions, so they won't always get a chance to see the revised version, certainly not if you're going to update it multiple times.
Are there any communities meant for doing critical reviews of 'not-quite-done' pieces? It would be interesting to see how something would evolve based on feedback from what would essentially be group betaing. Yep, vid_critics allows that.
Perhaps it would be best to let it depend on the creator. *nods* It would be nice if there were more comms out there that were for critical reviews, that way it's the artists choice if they want to to post their fics there.
I guess they would be. And I'm wasting your time again. Maybe I should meta on my own LJ ;) Hey, you can't waste my time. My journal welcomes meta and rambling as much as people are willing to throw at me. Feel free to continue as much as you'd like :)
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*nods* I think that's still the best policy if you're not going to be giving critical reviews.
And you know, I think I must be sheltered or something because I don't think I've ever gotten flammed for any of the 11 vids I've posted over the years. I've gotten some critical reviews that have pointed out problems I once got a pretty useless beta that upset me but never anything I would consider a flame (for my vids).
Or is it? The best vid beta I ever had was someone who emailed me out of the blue and worked with me for a week on something I had considered finished.
I have known a few people to go back and do remixes, and certainly some who have gone back and fixed a few things in fic, I just don't think you should go in and do a review with the expectation that the artist will go back and fix their work. I know that I would love to go back and fix up some of my vids, the thing is, I don't have the files any more so I'd have to start again from scratch. Even my more recent vids; the working file for a single vid can work out to be 80+ GBs with the source files and renderings. I just don't have the space to keep those on my computer and while I'd like for my vids to be perfect once I have it posted I'd prefer to move on to something new than to constantly be going back and fixing the old one up. Vids can also be tricky because people often save them to their computers and watch those versions, so they won't always get a chance to see the revised version, certainly not if you're going to update it multiple times.
Are there any communities meant for doing critical reviews of 'not-quite-done' pieces? It would be interesting to see how something would evolve based on feedback from what would essentially be group betaing.
Yep,
Perhaps it would be best to let it depend on the creator.
*nods* It would be nice if there were more comms out there that were for critical reviews, that way it's the artists choice if they want to to post their fics there.
I guess they would be. And I'm wasting your time again. Maybe I should meta on my own LJ ;)
Hey, you can't waste my time. My journal welcomes meta and rambling as much as people are willing to throw at me. Feel free to continue as much as you'd like :)