*watches the Life After Beth one* Hm. I personally would have done better with a hint up front, but I also see your point that the enjoyment on that one could be improved by not knowing where it was going. But yeah, if you're familiar with the source, you already know where it's going.
...and first-time viewers of the source would probably have had some sort of cues about genre and whatnot, which serve some of the functional purpose of warnings. Generally speaking, I'm a big believer in the contract with the reader/viewer, where you give them some sort of advance cue about what they're in for, and then abide by those early cues.
(And yet I acknowledge that I love seekingferret's Henry Reed story, which is a flagrant violator. He used me as a beta on that, and we both spent some time sweating over the warning/contract-with-the-reader/spoiler issue. And then it came up again when I was trying to figure out how to rec it.)
The LKBV is incomplete and resting: it was the vid I had just started when I VERY RUDELY DISCOVERED that my computer upgrade had killed my editing program. I worked on it for a few weeks after changing programs, but... Well, wrestling with the program AND with the vid was too much, and then Festivids happened and I've been too busy to get back to it.
The plan was to make it, and then decide whether to publish it. (Not all things should be set free to roam around the internet without supervision.) But I'll keep your and Fray's interest in mind, should it be a case of "I'm not setting this one loose, but I am willing to show it to people I trust."
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Re: this is a total tangent: how best to elicit surprise?
Date: 2015-02-08 01:01 am (UTC)...and first-time viewers of the source would probably have had some sort of cues about genre and whatnot, which serve some of the functional purpose of warnings. Generally speaking, I'm a big believer in the contract with the reader/viewer, where you give them some sort of advance cue about what they're in for, and then abide by those early cues.
(And yet I acknowledge that I love seekingferret's Henry Reed story, which is a flagrant violator. He used me as a beta on that, and we both spent some time sweating over the warning/contract-with-the-reader/spoiler issue. And then it came up again when I was trying to figure out how to rec it.)
The LKBV is incomplete and resting: it was the vid I had just started when I VERY RUDELY DISCOVERED that my computer upgrade had killed my editing program. I worked on it for a few weeks after changing programs, but... Well, wrestling with the program AND with the vid was too much, and then Festivids happened and I've been too busy to get back to it.
The plan was to make it, and then decide whether to publish it. (Not all things should be set free to roam around the internet without supervision.) But I'll keep your and Fray's interest in mind, should it be a case of "I'm not setting this one loose, but I am willing to show it to people I trust."