Mirana Niranne
The Ninja Coalition
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Posted - 2007.06.23 16:57:00 -
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 Originally by: FortunaFive
Now in my humble opinion... [rant]
Someone a little defensive here?
Look, obviously more than a few people are coming into this a little biased at the hiring of "actors" and other folks with professional media training (and good looks) over people who actually play Eve with a passion, but by and large, aside from one incredible rip at you guys, the responses in this thread have been mostly constructive with regards to criticism.
Looking more at a camera as opposed to your notes is broadcast journalism 101, and even as an actor you know the value getting a script out of your hand does for your performance level.
The New York Times hasn't weighed in here, these are some of your viewers offering real advice and some criticism. Sure no one had to pay to watch the "pilot" as it were, but this was your moment to show people why they should pay for this service. Did it fail? I don't think it did, but you guys have room to improve.
Also understand that given how ETV has gone "Pro" expectations are going to be higher, and when money is involved, yes people are going to call you out for the mistakes they see. You're going to be charging about the same to view a single episode of ETV ONCE as they would to download an episode of Battlestar off of itunes they can watch as much as they want. I'm not saying you need to have that kind of budget or quality, and it's certainly not even the same genre of media, but the point of that statement is that if you're going to be a "Pro" people are going to expect you to act like it.
You don't see pros come out of a broadcast that didn't go off as well as they'd have liked and rebuke criticism with "But we put A LOT of work and sleepless nights into this, you're being unfair!" No, you don't. They settle down afterwards, take an inventory on what they need to improve on, and work it out for next time.
Hey, if this was still an amature production like the alliance tournaments have been with goofyness and impromptu mistakes and humor I bet hardly anyone would have anything to say but "Good job on a first show guys". the moment you attach a price tag to something, you place a relative value to it and you cross the line into professionalism.
You wanna be a pro? Act like it. Put yourself above the comments of a couple of bitter individuals, don't give them the pleasure of a rebuttal to their spouts. Those 2 rant posts above that you made only serve to make you look decidedly unprofessional, overly sensitive to criticism, and if I may say, a bit whiny. Buck up.
A couple mistakes were made, you knew what they were before anyone even started talking about it I'm sure. Take a moment to think on how you might improve for next week and convince us why we should want to pay to see you next week.
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