bad wording on my part. I'll edit it to *prefer*
btw i bought your last laugh beta and i enjoyed it =D
so no, don't take it personally. I am talking about the whole.
when i say whole, i mean all the shitty amateur 3 clip stores on clips4sale
That's ok, I know you weren't generalizing. I was being more facetious than anything else. I guess didn't come out that way in my post, though. My bad.
I'm glad you enjoyed Beta. That's one of my oldest videos. My second, actually. Maybe not my best from a technical point of view (picture-wise, I mean). I was still trying to get the hang of making videos (I still am, really). But it turned out ok enough, I guess. My work has always been on the amateur side anyway.
I guess I should contribute to the actual discussion of this thread. When downloadable clips started to become more popular, I was a little disappointed. Not only because I didn't have any clips and had no idea how to make them, but also because I kind of preferred tangible products. In fact, that's why I'm still producing DVD versions for all of my videos. I know there are people who prefer DVDs, including some of my regular customers, and I would hate to disappoint them by droppng that format.
Of course, I eventually didn't have a choice but to start producing clips myself. Otherwise The Last Laugh would have died. Nowadays, I make significantly more clip sales than DVD sales. And I certainly can't blame the many producers who only sell clips. They're the most popular format, and offering physical videos in addition to the clips represents even more work for rather poor returns. Still, I think physical videos have a certain charm, and it's a shame that they're so much harder to find these days.
I must say, however, that my reasons for liking DVDs have nothing to do with plots. For instance, if I may quote StevePerry4Ever:
"i loved the cheesy stories in the movies, the bad acting, the classic "what are you doing?" being asked to someone who just pulled off the models shoes and is holding a feather, and the little roleplay fantasy plots"
It's just fine if he liked that kind of approach, and it's also fine if other producers do it that way. But personally, I've always hated it. "Cheesy" and "bad acting" are some of the main reasons why I can't stand plots and scripted dialogue. I just can't take such stories seriously within a tickling context. Hearing models say things like "Why are you taking my shoes off?" or "What are you going to do with that feather" or "Please don't tickle my sensitive, defenseless soles" makes me cringe like you have no idea. To me, it just makes a video seem fake, even if the actual tickling is genuine. I don't know, I don't feel tickling lends itself to that sort of video. But that's only my opinion.
