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Press Reset: The Story of Polygon - financed by Microsoft for $750,000
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EmCeeGramr
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Time lapse shot of early morning traffic in the Bay. Ambient music.
Cut and slow-pan right as JEFF GERSTMANN sits on a sill and stares out a window into the soft blue glare of the morning light. He is contemplative. Cut to confessional shot of JEFF.
JEFF: I... I think that video games provide a unique medium and opportunity to elucidate upon them.
Black and white, left shot, Dutch angle
JEFF: That's my calling in life. It's not an easy one.
Time lapse shot of early morning traffic in the Bay. Ambient music.
Cut and slow-pan right as JEFF GERSTMANN sits on a sill and stares out a window into the soft blue glare of the morning light. He is contemplative. Cut to confessional shot of JEFF.
JEFF: I... I think that video games provide a unique medium and opportunity to elucidate upon them.
Black and white, left shot, Dutch angle
JEFF: That's my calling in life. It's not an easy one.
Felix Lighter
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They overestimated. We were not ready.
I honestly do get the approach of hyping a website up these days.
The market is crowded (hell, even I write and produce video reviews these days in my spare time), so they're approaching it in a way that will hopefully build them some hype.
The trailer is modern, we have to give them that, and it'll hopefully for them it'll get some new eyes on the site. They need to market and tease the site in a way that gets people curious, so I suppose showing the human side of the writing and documenting it as such is a way to go about that. Footage of review writing isn't the best sell.
The market is crowded (hell, even I write and produce video reviews these days in my spare time), so they're approaching it in a way that will hopefully build them some hype.
The trailer is modern, we have to give them that, and it'll hopefully for them it'll get some new eyes on the site. They need to market and tease the site in a way that gets people curious, so I suppose showing the human side of the writing and documenting it as such is a way to go about that. Footage of review writing isn't the best sell.
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Deleted member 47027
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Who's in charge over at Polygon anyhow? Why has he or she not told the staff to not respond to negative tweets, and to behave properly when it comes to social media? They should know how to behave in the first place when you represent your company online but JEEZUS this is getting sad.
I love people on twitter defending it by saying "Giant Bomb did the same thing!" except that the first episode of How to Build a Bomb was Jeff and Ryan realizing that they forgot the keys to the new office and having to go to a hardware store to have new ones made. It set the tone perfectly for that site: "Boy, that was dumb!" It's fun and not at all self-serious. I mean, the splash image for that video series has the cover of fucking Shaq-Fu on it.
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Not only did they release a trailer for a multi-part documentary about a random video game website, but this was just the TEASER trailer. We didn't even get the full trailer yet.
Now now, we've been told not to judge the show on the teaser trailer.
Nonsense, Garnett is a spent force ..... his podcast is shit and shacknews?
Who?
Anyway, this is pretentious BS, Arthur is a boring dick (never liked that guy) but I think the end product will still manage to be better than IGN, gametrailers, joystiq, kotaku etc.
EmCeeGramr
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Oh God, Justin McElroy constantly pointing out that "it's just 43 seconds of footage, don't jump to conclusions about what it'll be like!" and Ryan Davis schooling him with, "It's a trailer, the whole point was to show people what it's like."
He's right. You should hold off judgement until you get the DVD box in the mail. Then spin, spin, spin with glee.
Them's fightin' words. Weekend Confirmed is an awesome show.
Yeah, that's the cardinal reason why I don't get Gies giving Lee grief over his judgments.
i laughed out loud
Arthur is the anti-Vinny.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Its just digging this huge and vast chasm for when the site does go live and he or any of their team starting bagging on some project or whatever from a demo or trailer or anything. "How can you possibly tell?!!!"
Jibbajabbawockky
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bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
Ice cold.
@ the documentary:
Not very invested on the idea, to be honest, but I prefer to hold judgement until I get to watch it.
Wolves Evolve
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This is what I don't get. Don't act like a bully online about your VC-funded website. They have some fantastic writers but wow, get a grip.
SolidSnakex
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I could be wrong, but how else would you explain a documentary like this? It just seems to be an easy way to get the personalities out there.
Mark from Classic Game Room.
Still think this is a better way of making video to announce your website without looking like a pretentious asshole.
I respectfully disagree on all points. Good day.
pseudomyxoma
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Some people were stupid enough to donate money to those that were fired at 1up and then those fired later used the money donated to them for a gaming PC
Nah, they seem to be pretty happy with the Polygon guys.
RedNumberFive
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I don't know of the world is ready... for such high levels of smugness and self-absorption.
Absoludacrous
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I think for podcasting equipment, basically like a proto-kickstarter.
From my point of view, it seemed like a bunch of people who came late to the 1UP party capitalized on the good will built up through the years by the more established personalities.
MuddyDonut
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Mark from Classic Game Room.
aw shit, Mark getting love is always a good thing.
XANDER CAGE
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Will have How To Build a Bomb redux done soon
John Rabbit
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make sure you color correct the footage so that everything is slightly blue-tinged, also you'll need to digitally blur all the backgrounds so you can get that exaggerated DOF look.
Classic Game Room is great.
That's how video game journalism is suppose to be. Fun. Not filled with drama.
EmCeeGramr
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Add some ambient music that transitions into a soulful guitar or piano.
lol
Interficium
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I think this is a result of self-important game journos, who of course have always to actually be devs, internalizing that desire and deciding instead to treat their game journo website like a dev house. That's the only way I can rationalize this. Has Crecente's fingerprints all over it though.
Also:
Also:
Garnett Lee can be so obnoxious. The best part of Weekend Confirmed is Jeff Cannata non sequitors. I don't listen to video game podcasts to hear video game news. It's about you, regardless of whether you want to better report games and the creators. I'm interested in the McElroy brothers and the hot asian chick. I don't care that much about the release date for the latest COD map pack.
Not to fuel the flame, but here's some acknowledgement:
And yeah, I donated to Rebel FM back in the day after the 1upocalypse.
Class act. What a mature and sensible person.
John Rabbit
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i actually have some super-generic-ass-background-music on my work computer he could use. it sounds almost identical to that wishy-washy junk in the polygon trailer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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