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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Littlebrick][quote=pacific]Good technical aspects are the key to being able to tell a story that others can follow and that is believable.[/quote]

You're joking, right?

The key to "being able to tell a story that others can follow and that is believable" is to actually know how to write a good story in the first place. Good technical aspects don't write the story for you. Oh, if only I could [i]name[/i] all the films out there that have good technical aspects but are otherwise worthless, confusing films...[/quote]

I'm absolutely not kidding. I don't know about you, but I personally don't bother watching Lego videos that feature... boring editing, lame cinematography, out-of-focus images, jerkiness as hell, pre-puberty voice acting that you can't even hear properly because of that rude microphone poppin' - you get the idea.

I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Technical aspects are a requirement for telling a story well. I did not say they WERE the story. There's a difference between "telling a story" and "a story" (regardless of whether it's good or not). 

The story itself has NOTHING to do with how (well) you tell it. An in fact very good story can be ruined by its presentation. A story can be told in an interesting, and in a boring way.

Understand what I mean?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[pacific]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Hands, if we didn't have them we couldn't our burning love for Brickfilming. Unless we used our mouths, but that would slowly drive us to insanity.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Larmz]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-06T00:30:51Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=pacific]Good technical aspects are the key to being able to tell a story that others can follow and that is believable.[/quote]

You're joking, right?

The key to "being able to tell a story that others can follow and that is believable" is to actually know how to write a good story in the first place. Good technical aspects don't write the story for you. Oh, if only I could [i]name[/i] all the films out there that have good technical aspects but are otherwise worthless, confusing films...]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Littlebrick]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[graemecallen@yahoo.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T22:54:16Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Good technical aspects are the key to being able to tell a story that others can follow and that is believable. Once that's set, it's all about the story. Unfortunately though, a good story you can mostly only establish if you're brickfilm is at least 10 minutes long.

For the films that haven't got the privilege to be of a certain length necessary to establish a (real) story, I think it's all about cleverness. Good technical aspects combined with "cleverness", and "positiveness" (prime examples are Days of our Pizza and A Clone Halloween) - that's what I find leaves a good feeling in your stomach after watching and what lets you feel the simple joy of watching Lego men move all by themselves.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[pacific]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T22:30:38Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=AniMax]A film could have the best, most original story in the world animated in 5 fps with the minifig just teleporting from place to place and a kid with a pre-puberty voice voice acting......... I don't think I'll understand the story.[/quote]
[img]http://gregdespres.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/objection2.jpg[/img]

Observe, [url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/films/view.php?id=471]Taco Trouble[/url].
The frame rate is awful, the camera quality terrible and the voice quality an ear-scraping mess, but it's undoubtedly one of the funniest and most entertaining brickfilms in history. If you fancy reading a bit more on this, have a look at [url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/3742/taco-trouble-an-object-lesson-in-brickfilming/]this thread[/url].]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Hazzat]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[harry@bossert.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/99/</uri>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T22:30:15Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The most important thing in a brickfilm is the same as the most important thing in any other sort of film.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[topit]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/2995/</uri>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T21:43:52Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Enjoy making it, be proud of your work, and aim to entertain your audience. In my eyes at least, that's what film should do.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Onion]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T21:21:11Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[If you have a good idea...and people enjoy your film and having fun while making it! I don't entirely agree with story being the best thing.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[VanderFlame Studios]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T19:06:12Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Monkeys. (Or parrots.)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BertL]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T18:41:20Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[This thread is kind of like asking 'How do you make a good Brickfilm'. The rules of filmmaking are like LEGO itself: it can be de-constructed and re-built into anything. 

But I suppose the most important thing is that its entertaining. If you can engage the viewer then you've done something right...]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Max Butcher]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T15:31:56Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Different brickfilms have different things that make them great. If I had to choose one thing that's the most important for a brickfilm it's how well executed it is, (though that's a fairly vague thing to say and covers basically the entire process). Really, if you have a simple story but execute it well, I'll probably watch it. Though a solid story is also nice.
[quote=AnnoyingNoisesProductions]Also, in my personal opinion, Avatar has a better plot. It's not my absolute most favorite ever, but I found it much better and far less predictable than It's a Wonderful Life.

Anyway, I'd actually like to withdraw my previous statement from the matter, after thinking it over some more.[/quote]
...
Then why'd you post it? :/]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Danimation]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T13:03:56Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I think that the technical aspects, and the story are both very important. Say you are watching a crappy 3fps film, with no background, but it has good story. You would probably turn it off after the first 45 seconds. But say we have a spectacular, smooth as a baby's butt smooth animation, with amazing set design, but the story keeps dragging, on and on, and on. You'd get bored of it. Alot people would turn it off after a while. So I think that they are both very important. They both are needed in a good brickfilm.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Chris W.]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/2438/</uri>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T11:22:01Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Plot is by far the most important aspect, but the other aspects should reach at least a certain level of decensy for it to be watchable, they just shouldn't be horrible, I guess.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Pillow]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[vik12312@hotmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/102/</uri>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T08:48:15Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: What's the most important thing in a Brickfilm?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It doesn't matter as long as you're having FUN.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[WelcomeToAwesomeness]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[jetpackcat@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/3513/</uri>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T08:24:46Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The most important thing in a brickfilm eh? 

Your enjoyment making the film.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Stoppedmotion]]></name>
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			<updated>2011-08-05T06:39:06Z</updated>
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