Dion, When you added the on-screen menu, I was one of the biggest critics of this. However, aside from the manu on the screen, one of the things that this experiment did was to put chapter stops at different points in the scene (Oral, Sex, Anal, Cum Shot, etc...). That part was a good idea.
Have you given consideration to just adding these "Sub-chapters" back to your movies at these key points in the scenes without having the menu?
In my opinion Dion, dont do it. I find it annoying, when I watch an evil angel dvd, for example, that if I want to skip from the first scene to the fourth scene, i have to hit the button like 20 times. Keep it the way it is.
Chapter stops are excellent, it's good to work fingers every now and then, instead of always working the forearm,
But I don't think a few extra chapter stops would be a bad thing. I know I don't mind the extra chapters, because it truly sucks when you hit the chapter foward button and have to go back to the beginning of the scene.
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Posted - Mar 1 2003 : 2:42PM
Actually, on most remotes, you can type in a number and the movie will skip to the corresponding chapter. This is what I tend to do with Evil Angel's DVDs when I want to go forward, or else I just use the chapter menus to go directly to the chapter or to glance at what chapters I'm going to be the MOST interested in.
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Posted - Mar 1 2003 : 7:33PM
Doesn't nobody watch movies anymore in linear fashion? How do you ever get into the rhythm of a scene? How do you judge if the scene has a nice built up in tension? How can you relate to the important stylistic relationship between real time and reel time? This is no criticsm. I am just wondering, that's all.
Edited: Dammit. I just realized that I took this thread off topic. Is there an elegant solution to fix this?
I like a LOT of chapter stops. I don't think 55 chapter stops in a 2 hr20min movie is too many. While I appreciate all the formal aspects of watching a scene all the way through in chronological order, I don't watch every scene that way. I tend to watch in choppy bits, and rewatch, according to what turns me on, or what I find appealing (the tease intros, for instance, but usually it's the most "natural" moments, when no one looks as though they're acting, and those fetish menu-type sequences: a hot, sloppy blow job, or just some intense fucking).
I use chapter stops more the second or third time I watch than on the first viewing. I get a feel for what I think in each video and go to that point for repeat viewing. Or if the phone rings or I have to go..I check where I'm at and turn it off.
Futureofporn is on the money with his amount of chapter stops. No less than 4 and no more than 6 is the ideal way to go. Easy access to the good parts is all we want, here and now, without having to rewind/forward to get there.