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I try not to make a habit out of watching MTV, BUT there are
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occasions where the remote lands on that channel either out of
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default or because something flashy catches my eye. (There ARE
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those few interesting videos that act as brightly colored fishing
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lures, interesting at first, until they've been shown every hour on
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the hour for the first 3 months) My question is: will videos look
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the same 10 years from now? I'm curious only because they don't
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seem to have changed at all in the 10+ years that MTV has been on
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the air. If I could design a computer graphics program that could
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digitally map the faces and logo's of a band onto a generic "live"
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(read as lip-synching to a stage audience) video, I could market
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the program and save many bands the trouble of having to go out and
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shoot a video that's already been done about 400 times. All I need
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to do is to sit down and work out the "perfect" video facets: how
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many slow-motion undressing women to use, how many cut-aways per
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second, how many fog-machines to use, whether or not to do outdoors
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footage at the edge of a cliff or in a forest, etc. etc. Once I
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get the telescript written, the rest will be easy. Perhaps I can
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sell this "perfect video" formula to struggling bands who need that
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extra push (that talent just can't seem to provide) to make it
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commercially. Wait! Why limit myself to just one single video
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format? I could do generic videos for posturing rap bands, phony
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"live" videos, "cutting edge" costume videos for new-
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wave/alternative bands, etc. etc. one for each genre! Those crappy
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movie-tie-in videos are too easy, just take the band's generic
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"live" video and intersperse it with clips from which ever movie
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that you are trying to promote. (musical info-mercials are next!
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No, wait. As I wrote that I had forgotten that Time-Life has
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already beaten me to THAT punch... damn!)
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-Neil
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