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Old 11-08-2009, 03:30 PM
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Default Rules about how many screenshots

I want to know if we should put a limit on how many screen shots of one weapon can we put on a page? I usually limit to 4-5 shots at different angles and usually in the hands of different actors including if we see a different setup of the weapon.

Because some pages I see unnecessarily that people love to post 10 images of the same weapon at different angles. This I think wastes space when half of those images already proves the point.
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Old 11-08-2009, 03:41 PM
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I think the limit should be 10 or 8. Sometimes more than 10 but only under extreme circunstances.
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Old 11-08-2009, 04:49 PM
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You think 10 screen caps of an M4 would be a good idea?
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Old 11-08-2009, 05:37 PM
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Only if they show the M4s being in differents hands or show goofs or anachorisms related to the M4s.
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Old 11-08-2009, 06:11 PM
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On the Apocalypse Now page, I have 9 M16A1 images. It doesn't look like too many, at least to me. http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Apocalypse_Now

As long as there are different actors handling the same gun more than 5 seems ok., but no more than 10.

Oliveira, not to bash your work on We Were Soldiers. But 24 XM16E1 images looks way overboard.
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Old 11-08-2009, 06:17 PM
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On the Apocalypse Now page, I have 9 M16A1 images. It doesn't look like too many, at least to me. http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Apocalypse_Now

As long as there are different actors handling the same gun more than 5 seems ok., but no more than 10.

Oliveira, not to bash your work on We Were Soldiers. But 24 XM16E1 images looks way overboard.
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.
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Old 11-08-2009, 06:21 PM
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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.
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Old 11-08-2009, 06:46 PM
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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.
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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.
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Old 11-08-2009, 07:01 PM
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Seven to ten is pretty good.
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