Originally Posted By MPierce >> See, if I were a mean-Spirited Spirit, I might toss out a zinger in Merf's direction here ... but I'm not, so I'll just think it! <, Your such a nice, and decent person. When I grow up I hope I can be just like you.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Your such a nice, and decent person. When I grow up I hope I can be just like you. >> Don't ever grow up. It'll kill you eventually!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I'm not sure, but DANG, dad - where you been???? working 7 day - 75 hour weeks Danny-- seriously. Job has been hell...but at almot 55 ( in a few weeks) opportunities to change aren't exactly abundant.. I miss LP -- but virtually no time right now except to pop in and out -- miss you all
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Dave - we have missed you. Hope you get some time with that beautiful family of yours at least. Take care, and try not to work too hard.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Don't ever grow up. It'll kill you eventually! << I had a very snappy come back. However descreation won out, and I decided not to use it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I adore these Tokyo Sea films. They remind me of the behind the scenes for the New Fantasyland at Disneyland where kids were moving away due to a divorce and were really upset when they couldn't say goodbye to their character friends because Fantasyland was closed for refurb. But i prefered the Disney Sea ones.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I adore these Tokyo Sea films. They remind me of the behind the scenes for the New Fantasyland at Disneyland where kids were moving away due to a divorce and were really upset when they couldn't say goodbye to their character friends because Fantasyland was closed for refurb. But i prefered the Disney Sea ones. << Where are you seeing these films Dave.
Originally Posted By MPierce I received my latest Disney planning video back when Goofyernmost started this hread, and I finally got around to watching it last night. That thing was so wrong in so many ways, and truly another resounding disappointment to me. Nothing really inspired me to plan a trip to WDW. Give me my 1996 VHS trip planning guide any day of the week. I had to watch the 2005 version just to get the foul taste out of my mouth of the latest dismal failure of WDW vacation videos. I never realized how great an actor Luke really was.
Originally Posted By danyoung I have several of these videos from years back, and it's fun to go through them as I'm psyching myself up for another trip! But I agree - the new ones with the clouds really stink. Every time I watch the cloud segments I think "What were they thinking? They're talking flowery concepts, while all we want is to see the parks and learn about new rides and programs and stuff!" Whoever wrote these videos really missed the boat on their target audience!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I'm sure we're all praying that the "powers that be" are reading our opinions, and smarten up real soon. Start giving us some meaty videos. I've no need to see a bunch of happy people, I'd much rather see what it is that's making them happy.
Originally Posted By MPierce It really does seem like they have lost touch with what made those tapes so great over the years. I can't believe that any responsible people at Disney look at this rubish, and think it's good. Maybe someone shoud mail Mr. Iger a copy of the 2005 dvd, and let him compare. I bet danyoung could splice together better videos with the tapes, and dvds he has now. Speaking of which. Does anybody else notice the stock footage from yesteryears that Disney uses almost every dvd. There's one in there that was originally made for the Jazz club that gets used almost every year. I know that shot is at least 15 years old.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros One of my favorite parts of the Stacey channel at WDW was watching which clips were obviously really old and out of date, but had probably been in the various versions of it for years. There was one particular shot that was just Donald waving at the camera, and it's clearly a very old shot. It's not a very good resolution, and Donald just looks downright scary. I'm pretty sure they've updated his look several times through the years, but that shot still remained. I just found a photo of it, and it seems like Donald was sporting his early 80's look for the cameras. From what I can tell, he was updated around 82/83 to remove the black circles from around his eyes, which were added back again in the early 90's, a new look with eyelids came aroudn in the late 90's, and I believe there was another one in the early 00's that came before the one we have today. Yet there's this clip of Donald from 6 generations of costumes ago waving at the camera. It comes out of nowhere, and is in the middle of a bunch of modern clips, which just makes it frightening the first few times you see it. Here's the look he was sporting: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultra_k/224509209/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/u...4509209/</a>
Originally Posted By MPierce ^^^There's really no excuse for allowing something like that to show up on a Disney video. That is unless you really want to play on the cheap. They really should consider hiring some professionals that take a little pride in their work.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> ^^^There's really no excuse for allowing something like that to show up on a Disney video. That is unless you really want to play on the cheap. They really should consider hiring some professionals that take a little pride in their work. << It's almost as Disney is subconsciously admitting that things were better in the 80s... Nah, it has to be a sign of their stinginess.
Originally Posted By danyoung I've talked about this before. In the editing world, these pieces are not being done by Disney. Or rather, there are Disney people in charge, but they're not like us - superfans who know about the eyeliner that Donald Duck had and when. There are some people from an ad agency, an online editor, a big box of tapes that cover 30 years, and a producer who is trying to create a message. They go through the tapes, see a shot of Donald playing with a kid, and go "hey, that's great - it'll fit in right here", and then they use it. And to their semi-trained eyes, the finished product looks good, and meets the goals that came down from corporate. Now, you & me, who have seen every promotional video for the past 30 years, know that that show of the little girl putting the Donald hat on her head has been used to death. But again, the people approving these videos don't know that. They look at all the fun cast members sitting on clouds and talking about their favorite memories, and they get all warm and fuzzy, thinking that this is what it's all about. But in this case, it isn't. It's about showing the parks, the water parks, the new stuff in DTD, in as much detail as possible. But they'll never know that, cuz they have the wrong people putting the videos together.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Which makes one wonder why they dont have the right people doing it..
