Rules about how many screenshots

[predator20]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

I know that. I just uploaded every single screencap I had of the XM16E1s. I stopped it when MPM told me to stop it. I he didn't stop me that section would have more 40 screencaps. I'm sorry. Real sorry.

Anyway, 10 screencaps ain't much. Now 15...that's overboard.

While there are 24 images, they are all good shots of the gun.

[Ace Oliveira]

Originally Posted by predator20

While there are 24 images, they are all good shots of the gun.

That was the problem. That movie is perfect gun porn. I was just getting good shots of the guns, really. If you look at them, you'll see that most of them show the receiver.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

My rule is Seven to ten, with ten being the UPPERMOST limit, period. I've had visitors looking at pages (I was watching them while they surfed IMFDB) and they got bored when they ran into sections that had 14-24 images of the same gun. Even these brand new visitors exclaimed that it was ridiculous and they immediately navigated AWAY from that page. Now would any one of us WANT visitors to navigate away from the pages we built? Editing is a discipline, and for any of us who have edited a story or school newspaper or yearbook, you know that a good editor makes the hard choices and will remove obviously good (but unnecessary) shots.

It's like forcing someone to look at each and every screencap you did, whether they like it or not.

[Ace Oliveira]

Seven to ten is pretty good.

[MT2008]

I generally try to avoid more than 6 nowadays. It does depend on the movie and gun, though. I mean, on the one hand, nobody needs to see 20 images of a type of gun that appears in hundreds of other movies (like a Glock or an AK). On the other hand, there are some movies where it's a bit more tempting and understandable...like my "Deep Rising" page where I have lots of images of the M1-L1 pulse rifles.

[Ace Oliveira]

I agree with MT2008. Some pages need more than 10 screencaps.

[Excalibur]

Well some pages do need 10, but then few movies and TV that I've been doing, I try not to go beyond 4-5. Especially on my Unit page where it spanned 4 seasons. If they continued the series, we'd have to make a whole new page for it

[MT2008]

Yeah, it's always worse with TV shows. Having 10 or more images for gun in shows that have featured dozens of different makes/models (like "Stargate: SG1") would be almost unreadable. Look at what happened with "Miami Vice", for instance.