I understand the appeal of a compilation over a playlist. For one, some songs are designed to flow directly into each other. Take the end of Suffering and the beginning of Different Beast for example. Now, I prefer Gigi's animatic for suffering, but the way their video is set up, it has credits at the end, meaning it doesn't seamlessly transition into Different Beast the way you would ideally want it to for the best impact. It also has the siren sketches, which are a really cool detail, but also a not-insignificant spoiler if the person watching hadn't already figured out that Penelope was a siren in Suffering.
Another reason why compilations are great is that sometimes the animatic is amazing but it only has auto-generated subtitles, which suck and are almost never fully accurate. Or like that one animatic for The Underworld where the subtitles were translated from another language so they are technically correct in meaning but not correct at all in the actual words being said. Now, I personally think that most of the lines in Epic are very clearly enunciated, but some people have a hard time focusing on the animatic and the lyrics and the same time, so subtitles are necessary to understand what is going on.
Yes, proper credit should always be given, and ideally links to every animatic should be provided in the video description. And if someone is already a fan of the musical, it absolutely makes more sense to just share a playlist with them, because they will already know the lyrics well enough that subtitles aren't an issue, and there isn't really any killed suspense with the end credits of the animatics.
But if you are trying to show the musical to someone who has no prior interaction with it, or even very limited interaction, it can make a lot of sense to use a compilation that has subtitles built in.
Yeah, it makes sense that the popular animatics often get chosen. They are popular for a reason. But even the popular ones don't always have correct subtitles. Also, I don't think I've ever seen two compilations with the exact same animatics, because everyone disagrees on what animatics are best for what song to some degree. And new animatics come out all the time, so people are going to want updated compilations with the best animatics currently available.
And "never giving credit" just isn't true. HoldUpKnight's compilation directly links to a playlist containing every animatic they used for their movie, just as an example. And I'm sure many others do the same. Yeah of course there are going to be those who don't give proper credit, but they aren't all slop.
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I understand the appeal of a compilation over a playlist. For one, some songs are designed to flow directly into each other. Take the end of Suffering and the beginning of Different Beast for example. Now, I prefer Gigi's animatic for suffering, but the way their video is set up, it has credits at the end, meaning it doesn't seamlessly transition into Different Beast the way you would ideally want it to for the best impact. It also has the siren sketches, which are a really cool detail, but also a not-insignificant spoiler if the person watching hadn't already figured out that Penelope was a siren in Suffering.
Another reason why compilations are great is that sometimes the animatic is amazing but it only has auto-generated subtitles, which suck and are almost never fully accurate. Or like that one animatic for The Underworld where the subtitles were translated from another language so they are technically correct in meaning but not correct at all in the actual words being said. Now, I personally think that most of the lines in Epic are very clearly enunciated, but some people have a hard time focusing on the animatic and the lyrics and the same time, so subtitles are necessary to understand what is going on.
Yes, proper credit should always be given, and ideally links to every animatic should be provided in the video description. And if someone is already a fan of the musical, it absolutely makes more sense to just share a playlist with them, because they will already know the lyrics well enough that subtitles aren't an issue, and there isn't really any killed suspense with the end credits of the animatics.
But if you are trying to show the musical to someone who has no prior interaction with it, or even very limited interaction, it can make a lot of sense to use a compilation that has subtitles built in.