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[–]SUNSfan -54ポイント-53ポイント  (88子コメント)

It might seem weird that the video starts with my timeline, but you have to understand the audience. This was already leaked to reddit last week, so that's not exactly who we're trying to reach.

Posting a video about a team in this fashion makes zero sense for the channel unless our audience has some kind of context, which in this case is me. The video was also deliberately created in this way for people to see that this is not a DotaCinema team, but instead one owned my me.

I knew it would come off as narcissistic to a few, but again, think of the large audience we're trying to introduce this to, aka the DotaCinema youtube channel, many of whom don't follow the competitive scene at all.

edit: Well this seems to be going down the usual path. Feel free to pitchfork me, its not a new thing for me on reddit. All I'm going to say is that although you might disagree with me, I'd like to think I know our audience pretty well. Future content won't have this tone as the purpose of the intro was to bridge the gap for our casual audience, which again, is not reddit. Sorry if the video enrages you.

[–]notamccallister 53ポイント54ポイント  (0子コメント)

This video provides even less context for someone who doesn't follow the competitive scene.

The first 40 seconds has absolutely nothing to do with competitive Dota 2 and then in 20 seconds you show the whole roster without really explaining anything about who they are or why they're notable. If I didn't know anything about esports, I'd just assume that you were captaining the team or something.

[–]SECRET FANFRIENDWannaBuildABIackMan 47ポイント48ポイント  (6子コメント)

yeah but this should be about the team: Digital Chaos. More than half of the video is just you introducing your business/Dotacinema. I get where you're coming from, but i don't think this is the right way to introduce your team.

bring on the downvotes

[–]@leafeatorleafeator 23ポイント24ポイント  (5子コメント)

I only think it's so weird because the first section is SO LONG.

[–]helpfuldan[🍰] 68ポイント69ポイント  (10子コメント)

I'm not sure why this is a "omg reddit hets me. Figures". I thought I had the wrong video. I'm older then you. I've been on the net longer then you (gopher Lynx pre-aol university user in da house), I've been gaming longer than you, I've been making money on the net since Netscape, and I went back twice to reload the video because I had no fucking clue what was going on. So if I'm fucking confused, maybe I'm a retard. Check comments, nope not retarded, that was fucking stupid.

How can you fuck up sponsoring a team? Nice sizing of the player cards. You let the 11 year old intern handle the player intro while you handled the look at me montage. I spent so much time trying to figure out wtf was going on I thought you were just promoting shit not actually sponsoring them.

Again, how does someone with average intelligence, fuck up a "we're sponsoring a team video"??? In 30 seconds I could have made a video saying "shit just got real. We're proud to announce we're sponsoring a Dota 2 team headed by ti5 champion aui_2000. We dug up the oldest carry in NA, dusted him off, the least savage guy in Dota TC. And because it's NA Dota offlane options were between Bulba, ixmike and a soda can, Bulba barely bested out the soda can in a tryout and he's manning the offlane".

I'm on mobile and my finger hurts but you get the fucking point.

[–]lookin' for a handbeezybvbblepop 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm already visualizing your version of the "announcement/commercial" in my head and find it far more satisfactory.

[–]Secret are your TI5 Winners 3-2 vs Na'Vi!PhobozZz1 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'd sub to offlane soda can strim though.

[–]yroc12345 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I believe you mean a Monster Energy can.

[–]socrates111 19ポイント20ポイント  (1子コメント)

The large audience that you speak of probably just cares about the team and the players. They probably don't care so much about your previous accomplishments.

To identify the fact that you "own" the team, you can simply write "SunSFAN presents" at the start or list your name after each member of the teams and write "owner" after it. Also, if you wanted to make it clear that they don't have an affiliation with Dota Cinema, it might be helpful for them not have a name which has the initials "DC" or for that matter putting their announcement video on Dota Cinema.

[–]http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198039475565/MrTheodore 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

team sunsfan DC tm*

*not affiliated with DC a sunsfan corporation llc

[–]Zentraedi 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's not pitchforking, it is a poor design choice for a video. If it's a team introduction video, having the first words of dialog be "Hey this is SUNSfan with an introduction to Centaur" probably doesn't offer the most clear idea of what's happening.

[–]Jimbo727 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Rofl, I thought it was a funny intro or something, and it was about to change or be like "Wait, no this is the wrong video" or something. It actually left me so perplexed. I like SUNSfan and was adamantly keyboard warriored and defending him during the whole NoobfromUA drama, I've still got all of the people (and I mean all, I went through the entire thread) who insulted him or were retarded tagged on RES. That doesn't change the fact that he can do dumb shit, and playing the victim again isn't helping.

[–]FliccC 16ポイント17ポイント  (0子コメント)

OK, as a film maker, I'd like give some criticism.

1) What is your audience? The competitive scene, they don't care about your personal acomplishments. The casual scene, well I guess you pretty much scared them off because the video is badly paced, makes no sense and has a very awkward style.

2) What is your goal? You want to show off your own acomplishments? Jump in front of a camera, do it casually with a little smile in the corner of your eye. Be happy about what you do, but don't take yourself too seriously.

You want to introduce a competitive team? do it properly. Create some video footage of them, make short interviews about their motivation and goals, maybe combine it with ingame footage. In the current video there is literally nothing you can connect to.

3) Style. This isn't 1995 anymore. Up until 2000 this kind of style would've maybe been cool, but a 3D modeled room isn't going to impress anyone nowadays. It's impersonal, cold, doesn't say anything and looks generic aka like someone just finished his blender/maya/after effects tutorial. And again, if you'd really like to go this route, then do it right! Make it cheesy, add some 90s references, add anything that will make it look like there is an idea behind it. Also there was no background sound, the sound of the different videos playing were on the same level as everything else, destroying the illusion of a 3D room altogether.

The presentation of the players is as badly as it can get. A pretentious 3D style suddenly presents to us tiny photographs which were very badly taken. Faces with no impression on them in front of a white wall. You're not trying to check into the airport here. When you're introducing someone, the audience actually wants to know something about them other than a face which doesn't say anything and a name in an even tinier font. I think Videos would've been much better here, but again if you want to go with photos, do it right! rent a photo studio for a day, let them dress up, make a montage.

All in all this video gives you no information, no emotional connection to anything. SUNSfan, you're a personality, you've got humour, you're not saying a single word in this video. Just you talking to your audience in whatever way would've acomplished much much more than this video. Everything that's there only serves the purpose to distract from the lack of content that you have. 1:42 for nothing is too long.

I'm sorry to be so harsh, I like the team, I like SUNSfan but I don't like the video.

[–]Learn2Buy 16ポイント17ポイント  (11子コメント)

edit: Well this seems to be going down the usual path.

It's fucking sad that you know your reputation on reddit and do nothing to change it. You missed a huge opportunity here to actually show that you're not a douche and are passionate about this new project (assuming you are, I can't even tell anymore from this shitty video). All you had to do was appear on camera and not look like an asshole and say the message you were trying to get across in words and not through a shitty highlight reel that just looks like a resume. How hard is that? How is that way of presenting the message any less clear? You would think that actually speaking words and showing the audience a face to connect to things would actually strengthen your message, especially for the casual audience you're trying to target. Your video doesn't just fail on reddit, it fails for everyone. Your video doesn't just have the wrong tone, it has zero tone. It shows no soul or passion. It is completely uninspired and awful.

[–]zapXet 32ポイント33ポイント  (14子コメント)

edit: Well this seems to be going down the usual path. Feel free to pitchfork me, its not a new thing for me on reddit. All I'm going to say is that although you might disagree with me, I'd like to think I know our audience pretty well.

Holy shit dude, are you really that proud? Without reddit, would you have been able to grow your viewerbase to anywhere near the level it has become?

A significant amount of your precious 'audience' is literally telling you right now that you have approached something in the wrong way, but nooo, you can't suck it up and accept the criticism and admit that maybe it has merit, but instead escalate the negative feelings by basically telling us we don't know wtf we're talking about, and now you're gonna cry about how reddit is pitchforking you rather than even considering that maybe you don't always know best...

Not to mention most people, unlike myself, are actually being rather polite to you. I don't have the patience for it anymore.

[–]patrick_mcnam 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Without reddit, would you have been able to grow your viewerbase to anywhere near the level it has become?

Why does this subreddit always try to take credit for everything?

[–]zapXet 13ポイント14ポイント  (1子コメント)

Reddit in general as a platform is a major driver of hits to all forms of content. If something makes the front page of any moderately large subreddit, that translates into a significant number of views and word of mouth.

[–]helpfuldan[🍰] 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Finally watched it on a desktop, honestly it's even worse. It's not even clear if you own the team, sponsoring, official highlight/interviewer person, promoter, ????. You're a play by play guy, who can bring a little hype/excitement, and there's a new team with aui you're involved with (maybe? sorta), and you can't even mention ti5 champion, can't even get a proper sized image? Aui is marketing gold right now, and somehow, a new team with Aui, you can't even do that?

I don't care about self promotion, if you don't self promote you're an idiot. But the fact people are reloading the video, thinking they have the wrong video, don't understand how you're involved with it, what the other projects have to do with the team, and generally causing mass confusing isn't "reddits fault, you're not the demo, you're not the target, you don't get it". No one gets it, because it's not even remotely clear. On any level. To any demo. People aren't hating it because you're self promoting, they're hating it because it makes no sense, and the player "intro" part looked like shit, was slapped in, and carry fucking Sven. Good job leading with TC first, because of course you're target knows the first guy is the #1 on the team. Despite the fact Aui is marketing gold ATM, lets roll with TC first. You managed to underhype aui's new team. Srsly.

I actually like your casting and videos. But the whole coming here and going "you guys don't get it". Which is funny, because you don't even get the fact there's fundamental flaws in the video that leave people confused as fuck. Was there a rush? Those intros were slightly below Starladder quality. Enough said.

[–]socrates111 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

edit: Well this seems to be going down the usual path. Feel free to pitchfork me, its not a new thing for me on reddit. All I'm going to say is that although you might disagree with me, I'd like to think I know our audience pretty well. Future content won't have this tone as the purpose of the intro was to bridge the gap for our casual audience, which again, is not reddit. Sorry if the video enrages you.

here is the top youtube comment currently (by number of "thumps up"):

""LMFAO you took 1 minute to advertise yourself before getting to the team, just stop Suns jesus christ""

so ya....that would be a, no.

[–]Learn2Buy 15ポイント16ポイント  (8子コメント)

Your video still sucks. Why not just actually record yourself saying something original, personally explaining who you are, your motivations, and actually announcing your team. You're right it comes off as narcissistic, it also comes off as lazy and impersonal and it's sad you went along with it anyway.

[–]Vadrigar 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

All this you could have done with a simple "Sunsfan presents" or just you talking about the players. More than 1 minute out of a 1:42 video introducing stuff your YouTube subscribers already know is fucking ridiculous.

[–]alacrion 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Do you think you guys will make a follow-up video explaining why you created the team and what that process was like? I would be really interested in a dota cinema behind the scenes look at forming an e-sports team.

[–]FieryXJoe 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

As someone a bit out of the loop I was still under the understanding that this was a DotaCinema team and not your team after watching the video.

[–]yroc12345 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

The video was also deliberately created in this way for people to see that this is not a DotaCinema team, but instead one owned my me.

I can think of about 5 different ways you could have done that which don't make you look narcissistic.

[–]Milol 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

The fact that you're coming on here to EXPLAIN it should tip you off that this "introduction" video was a failure.

I look forward to the day when something related to you is posted on reddit without you having to come on and write an essay trying to defend yourself.

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I know it doesn't really make sense, but I expected you to have a Meepo flair.

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[–]Esparza89 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You fucked up man and it would actually help you to just admit it. And finally, if you do admit your fault maybe do a real SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT video, we don't care about your resume, we are not going to hire you or anything.

[–]GIANT FISH DOTOSupahBlah 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Honestly (regarding the edit), its just such a typical response from either you or Sajedene to blame reddit. But if you want to promote a site, youtube show, tournament, team or casting studio you'll be here.

So its not a DotaCinema team but its put on the DotaCinema youtube channel (for reasons) and it uses the initials DC (for reasons) if it truly isn't anything to do with DotaCinema it wouldn't be anywhere near that channel but it is and leveraged against everything DotaCinema has done (the beginning intro) so just putting your alias at the start and making the colours Phoenix Suns but to say it was "deliberately created in this way for people to see this is not a DotaCinema team" is pretty funny.

[–]RedOrmTostesson 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, Sunsfan. I love your work, and I totally get your reasoning here, but I feel like the execution isn't doing justice to your intention.

Right now, the content is split about 80-20 in the "context-to-team-introduction ratio," where that split should be 20-80, or even 10-90.

Consider if there's a way that you could get all of those previous projects on the same frame, rather than going through them one by one. Pair with a line like, "From the producers of..."

[–]chilibean_3 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

edit: Well this seems to be going down the usual path. Feel free to pitchfork me, its not a new thing for me on reddit. All I'm going to say is that although you might disagree with me, I'd like to think I know our audience pretty well. Future content won't have this tone as the purpose of the intro was to bridge the gap for our casual audience, which again, is not reddit. Sorry if the video enrages you.

Sunsfan the martyr.

[–]69rude69 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Big fan of your casting and hosting, probably the only person that actually gets me laughing during a cast - in a good way. But sorry, this intro really is quite shit. Edit: that being said, its just a video, who cares. It your project, you have the right to do things your way =)

[–]SpicerJones 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're right - the issue is definitely reddit.

You being a tool, has absolutely no bearing on the negative response youve received in regards to your "SUNSfan presents : SUNSfan the edm musical commercial with an appearance by some people now playing DOTA together"

I enjoy your videos normally, but this made me say "what the fuck" out loud.

[–]NormanImmanuel 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You know, at first I thought the introduction was actually super hilarious, but knowing its serious pretty much ruined it for me.

[–]Kazaxat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think the main reason people find the video offputting is the length of time it took to get through the 'Sunsfan timeline'. If instead of pausing for several seconds at each station as a screen popped up, showed the entry, then shut down again, the camera had just smoothly panned across the room with the screens showing each entry as it passed I think it would have been better received.

It's not as much that people mind the inclusion of those items, but the heavy time emphasis put on each one. When the actual goal of the video (introducing the new team) is less than half of the actual length you can pretty safely say the introduction is too long. When that introduction by and large is a description of your accomplishments, you are then moving to the realm of people shouting 'narcissism'.

Personally I don't agree with most of the hate you get on Reddit, and I enjoy your presence as a DotA personality. In this case though, while I think people are getting too emotional and angry with you, I can't help but agree that this was a poorly directed video. Had the intro sequence been 20 seconds rather than a minute long it would have been fine, but it is not so. I'm sure you do know your audience, but regardless of your intentions in structuring the video this way, was the execution something that was able to achieve those goals? I think not, and I would just advise that you try to objectively look at where the complaints are focusing, and decide for yourself whether it truly was ideal.

[–]g0kartmozart 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

My first thoughts watching the video were

  • so this team is DotaCinema's team?

  • so DotaCinema is changing their name to Digital Chaos?

  • does this have anything to do with MoonHippo or whatever it's called?

  • is Sunsfan going to important to this team's image? Why else would his name be the first thing in the video? I thought he was just going to be in the background.

It's all very confusing. You should have let the team be its own brand, or have it all under the same brand.

[–]ewokskick 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This context makes a lot more sense. For me I saw it presented in the context of the digitalchaos.gg website. If I had seen it on the Dota Cinema channel this intro-video probably works better. Perhaps it would have been appropriate to make different videos for the different contexts.

[–]goldrogers 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Posting a video about a team in this fashion makes zero sense for the channel unless our audience has some kind of context, which in this case is me. The video was also deliberately created in this way for people to see that this is not a DotaCinema team, but instead one owned my me.

I'm still not sure how the first minute of the video supplies that context. Maybe if you had introduced the team first, then provided an afterword with you speaking into the camera and showing short clips of the introducing hero, highlights, fails of the week videos and said something like Hi I'm SunsFan, you may know me from these examples, I'm sponsoring pro Dota 2 team Digital Chaos. This is the future of Dota Cinema.

[–]Penwallis 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

About the edit... your attitude raises more question than anything. Like if you could just accept reddits opinion without being super defensive and super know-it-all you'd probably hurt your reputation less. While we are a small portion of your audience we still are the main one that provides feedback. So instead of acting like a victim and making yourself look like a dick I would suggest just not say anything and quit digging myself into a deeper hole.