At 8/12/11 08:42 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 8/11/11 11:09 PM, Kaneda-X wrote: I'd like to join and become a reviewer. Though I somewhat doubt my current batch of reviews available to look at are not up to snuff length-wise, I feel fairly confident in my abilities to right extremely competent reviews if given the motivation or knowledge the author will read my criticisms.

Thanks.

Your more recent flash reviews and your audio reviews seem to be alright. Just need to remember that 5 sentences is the most you should ever include in a paragraph and when starting on a new subject of what you are discussing about the flash it is usually a good idea to start a new paragraph.

As for art reviews, they could use a bit of a work. Check out Soapbubble, Supersteph54, Coop. Haggard, or my reviews for example of art reviews.

I've never actually attempted to do an art review. Occasionally I like to glance through the 'Adult' Section of the Art Portal and make little comments that don't make any attempt at actually critiquing the work. I will be sure to look at the users mentioned for the proper way of doing an art review.

Man when I joined "review request club" I expected there to be more flash. Nothing but audio, most of the time it feels like im just repeating what I said in my last review. There is so much more depth I can put into flash than reviewing audio....

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  Phlegmatic Undergroan

  by WizMystery

  Ambient Noise

  Song

  Ambient

  1,134 Views

  PLAY

This is my first serious attempt with a sampled/recorded ambient piece. Since I'm not familiar with the genre I really need to know what people think about it. I'm hoping to incorporate ambiance into my normal, melodic pieces.

At 8/10/11 05:18 PM, SCTE3 wrote: I shall keep this in mind for the future. However putting a cap on the amount of reviews to be submitted by those wanting reviews each week kind of seems bad because less users would request content. I don't think we even hit over 25 very often unless it's summer vacation.

I'm not trying to be a killjoy over this, I just want to make sure that the fair share of flash comes up for review, I mean we're not being douches and getting things to review like There She Is, or Crush The Castle, because that would be overkill, but if there's things out there that we can review and we'll get responses for as well (preferred!), we can all come to some sort of arrangement.

Just curious, but when will I know that I'm a part of this club?

At 8/12/11 04:39 PM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 8/12/11 04:24 PM, Kaneda-X wrote: Just curious, but when will I know that I'm a part of this club?

Did you read my post above on this page under the club rules post? Feel free to join but work on your art reviews.

Aye that I did, and I responded. It was unclear whether you were extending an invitation or not though. Thanks.

Phew! Almost done with the reviews. That's a really good thing, considering I won't have much of a chance to review before Sunday - need to travel on a plane all the way back to where I live, that'll take something like 10 hours. Blugh. Oh well. I should be able to finish them, thankfully. I think I got a bit lazy with some of them though, towards the end... Though, what do you expect when you review 14 things in a row?

I may actually be able to get another song /kind of/ done and ready for feedback by Monday too. I'm thinking of something in 9/4, 10/4, with a few other odd time signatures. Yay, bass ideas.

I was looking through Fro's guide to writing helpful reviews, but unfortunately, it only covers flash :/
I've noticed that the RRC is getting mostly audio requests these days. Being a mostly audio reviewer, I would like to contribute some tips to writing a good audio review. I won't say that my reviews are the best reviews, but I think I've found out the components of good audio reviews.

----The Bellmaker's impromptu guide to writing audio reviews--------

Preface: As much as audio artists want to be told that "OMG I LOVE YOUR SONG I GIVE YOU 408523042/10", they will take suggestions over mindless praise any day. As Fro said, a review is about helping out your fellow artist or giving advice as an audience member. Even if you give a submission a 10/10, there's always room for improvement. Here are couple types of reviews I find are very helpful.

=Type I Reviews=
Probably the easiest kind of review to write. Type I Review format goes as follows:

-Praise: This is important mostly to keep the artist interested in reading your review. No artist likes to read a 1000 character review full of criticism and pointing out of shortfallings. Usually this section is pretty easy, even a few lines will suffice for adequate praise.
-Suggestions: Pretty self explanatory. Tell the artist what you didn't like, and give advice on how to fix it. This also includes absence of melodies/sfx you feel would have made the song a much better listen. Never write in your review that you don't like a certain beat, or a certain transition, but not tell them how you think it should sound.
-Overall: Basically, just sum up your points, give the reasoning behind your review score in a concise sentence or two, and offer some encouraging words!

Type I reviews I find are the easiest to write when you listen to a track and can name several big suggestions off the top of your head. Usually this occurs when you give a submission a low score. I usually write Type I reviews as payback review (when people review my stuff, I sometimes give theirs a listen). It's probably the most common review type I see, if not the only.

=Type II Reviews=
Type II reviews are time sectioned reviews, useful for reviewing very long songs, or songs that seem to move along very fast. They are also useful if you can't find really anything big to talk about in a Type I review. Type II Reviews are structured as follows:

-Praise: Again, some very short positive statements, ie "Your song is very upbeat, it has a lot of energy"
-0:xx critique
-0:xx critique
-1:xx critique
...
-Overall: It may be hard to sum up everything if it is a long submission. Usually a couple statements explaining your score will suffice.

An example of a Type II review would be:

-I like this and that and these and those
-0:15 I like how that instrument comes in, but it's too loud, turn it down
-0:46 Very creative transition, but I feel it is incomplete, you should add these
-1:46 Damn, that was awesome! maybe a little more filter over here?
-Overall, me gusta

Basically, you'd be writing a bunch of mini type I reviews for specified time segments in the song. I find this very helpful when I'm listening to 7 minute tracks or skipping around. It also helps the artist a lot, because you are being very specific with your criticism, and it helps you a lot, because it lets you address many issues in your reviews, making them more high quality.

=Type III Review=

Type III Reviews are somewhat easier to write, I find, than type II reviews. Type III reviews are highly structured, as follows:

-Praise
-Introduction: Mini type I about specifically the introduction.
-Conclusion: " "
-Leads/Instrument: Mini type I about instrument selection/mixing
-Percussion: " "
-Melodies: Mini type I about melodies
-Rhythm: " "
-Lyrics: If it has any
-Overall

Basically it is a categorized review. The categories don't have to be in any specific order, nor do they have to be the ones mentioned above. However, I find that type III reviews are the most detailed and comprehensive reviews. I've easily exhausted half my character limit on reviews on Type III's. If you wanted to, and you have had a bunch of spare time, instead of writing mini type I reviews, you could write mini type II reviews in each section. It would be like a review within a review within a review....

Overall

Type I: Good for med-length tracks, if there are many obvious suggestions
Type II: Good for long-length tracks, if there are few obvious suggestions
Type III: Good for short-length tracks, if there are few obvious suggestions

-------/TheBellmaker's impromptu guide to writing audio reviews---------
Since I'm not reviewing here anymore, I thought I'd contribute something to the club. Seriously, you guys rock for what you are doing for us XD.

At 8/13/11 02:35 AM, TheBellmaker wrote: ----The Bellmaker's impromptu guide to writing audio reviews--------

Forgive me for sounding a bit pissy about this, but looking quickly at your reviews, I noticed that you left one that was about a paragraph long. I know quantity =/= quality, but surely you could have written more here, considering that you've written an impromptu science for the composition of Audio Reviews.

At 8/13/11 06:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/13/11 02:35 AM, TheBellmaker wrote: ----The Bellmaker's impromptu guide to writing audio reviews--------

Forgive me for sounding a bit pissy about this, but looking quickly at your reviews, I noticed that you left one that was about a paragraph long. I know quantity =/= quality, but surely you could have written more here, considering that you've written an impromptu science for the composition of Audio Reviews.

When I enacted the three for one deal on my last two songs, I scaled the length of my three payback reviews to the length of their original review. If someone was kind enough to give me a detailed analysis, I paid back their kindness accordingly. If someone left me a one sentence comment, I gave them my absolute minimum.

I would like to humbly request that this submission be taken into consideration as my contribution to the upcoming RRC game. Use it as you see fit, and of course, reviews are much appreciated.

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  M3- Prepare for Launch

  by MeteorManMike

  All systems go. Begin launch sequence in 3...2...1...

  Loop

  Dance

  2,287 Views

  PLAY

Now that that's finished, time to start doing some reviews of my own...

Would love to have my newest song reviewed. Thanks guys! ^_^
Hyper-Vigilance

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  by <deleted>

  9 Views

get to it when you guys can, and rip it to peices, I won't take it personally

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  Disco Beats - DaddyCat

  by DdyCat

  wah

  Song

  House

  662 Views

  PLAY

A review would be much appreciated

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  by <deleted>

  9 Views

Crap. Didn't realize our vacation is tomorrow, and not next week. I'm not getting all the reviews done, yet again. I will be gone until Thurs, with limited internet access, if any. We'll see what happens.

All reviews done. I might do the extra audio tomorrow morning or tomorrow night though, if I get the time.

Bellmaker, you should put that on a news post or something and have a link to it. I think it's really good, and a lot of people could benefit from reading it. Possibly something to put on the rules post that's at the top of each section..?

Anyway. That's what I think, take it or leave it.

At 8/14/11 01:24 AM, SkyeWintrest wrote: Bellmaker, you should put that on a news post or something and have a link to it. I think it's really good, and a lot of people could benefit from reading it. Possibly something to put on the rules post that's at the top of each section..?

Anyway. That's what I think, take it or leave it.

Ah, great idea. I think I'll put it in my sig too.
The link to my news post is here: http://thebellmaker.newgrounds.com/news/
post/618219
Feel free to use my guide in the rules post if you want.

Please check out my latest song! I might need to fix it, not sure if I will. Thanks club.

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  by <deleted>

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  Creature Contact

  by Slinkers

  The creatures make contact.

  Movie

  43,819 Views

  (Everyone)

This is not my submission, nor do I know the person who made it. Also, this has,

minutes ago

, passed judgement with about a 3.60. This is a great flash that deserves some recognition. Now, I know that with it's score, it's bound to be known more, as it's fresh, but I have a sad feeling that it won't. This is "better than 90% of the crap people are posting today" one reviewer said and I agree. I am not a part of this club, so I do not know whether asking you to review someone else's flash is prohibited or not, if so, I apologize, just trying to stay human and help.

Hey guys, can you review my track please?

Hype the Core (Silv3Ster Remix) - Spirit Wolf feat. Carlos Equihua

Thanks :D

At 8/14/11 04:18 PM, MaestroCC wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/57 6962
This is not my submission, nor do I know the person who made it. Also, this has, minutes ago, passed judgement with about a 3.60. This is a great flash that deserves some recognition. Now, I know that with it's score, it's bound to be known more, as it's fresh, but I have a sad feeling that it won't. This is "better than 90% of the crap people are posting today" one reviewer said and I agree. I am not a part of this club, so I do not know whether asking you to review someone else's flash is prohibited or not, if so, I apologize, just trying to stay human and help.

I don't think the rules say anything about requesting other people's work. I know I'll probably review it either way, if it's supposedly better than 90% of what people are posting.

And with my good deed for the day, I am out. Cheers guys. You're swell!

And thus the powerpuff girls were born!

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  Zelda Soundtrack Style

  by KieranNG

  Inspired by Zelda

  Loop

  Miscellaneous

  1,471 Views

  PLAY

would like to hear some feedback.

At 8/15/11 06:34 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 8/15/11 03:10 AM, sweet21 wrote: And thus the powerpuff girls were born!

Used to love that show, don't watch it anymore though as I never see it on. May see it rarely on Boomerang though.

Well... there's always the internet (videos). Since I get no good channels any more - that's what I resort to in any situation regarding TV shows... although I never did like the powerpuff girls much.

At 8/15/11 07:43 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Shall we update today or tomorrow?

Well. It is Monday. I'm betting that if we let it go to Tuesday too often, in a few weeks it'll always be done on Tuesday, in another few weeks, Wednesday, then Thursday, etc.

DAMMIT. Forgot to update again.

Darn competition I'm hosting is all I got in my mind right now. Sorry. I'll update sometime today.

Guess what? Another superb week. It's quite possibly even better than last time too!

So, while we haven't really reached any milestones this week, the stats are great - better than last week's. We got even closer to 5.00 as an Average Per Request, probably due to the fact that Coop and Haggard made a great comeback this week by each doing 11 reviews. Max amount of RRC reviews on one request was 6.

As always, SCTE3 and Soapbubble continued their long 100% streak with SkyeWintrest managing another 100%. Great job to Soapbubble for reviewing all of the requests in such a limited time period, and I also think SkyeWintrest deserves a mention for writing such detailed and helpful reviews and being able to continue his 100% streak at the same time.

Bad news: more people were inactive this time (and again, so was I...), and Spysociety has been excluded due to inactivity. But all in all, we had a fantastic week. Maybe sometime we can pass that average of 5.00 per request? :D.

Well done everyone, and good luck for this week. Sorry for the delay, by the way!

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Member's Update #95
[#] [Total] [Total Stats] [Total Ratio] || [Gain] [Weekly Stats] [Weekly Ratio] [Username]
01 ) 7765 | 1208 / 2343 | 051.56% || 069 | 11 / 21 | 052.38% | Coop
02 ) 7607 | 1179 / 2348 | 050.21% || 068 | 11 / 21 | 052.38% | Haggard
03 ) 4226 | 0650 / 0699 | 092.99% || 136 | 21 / 21 | 100.00% | SCTE3
04 ) 3047 | 0454 / 2223 | 020.42% || 003 | 00 / 21 | 000.00% | Supersteph54
05 ) 1152 | 0179 / 0179 | 100.00% || 136 | 21 / 21 | 100.00% | Soapbubble
06 ) 0461 | 0071 / 0141 | 050.35% || 045 | 07 / 21 | 033.33% | MeteorManMike
07 ) 0267 | 0041 / 0055 | 074.55% || 136 | 21 / 21 | 100.00% | SkyeWintrest
08 ) 0149 | 0023 / 0087 | 026.44% || 003 | 00 / 21 | 000.00% | NimbleKidX *
09 ) 0056 | 0008 / 0087 | 009.20% || 006 | 01 / 21 | 004.76% | MrMusicalLion
10 ) 0048 | 0007 / 0084 | 008.33% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% | SomeGuyInSomePlace *
11 ) 0037 | 0005 / 0056 | 008.93% || 008 | 01 / 21 | 004.76% | Xenophaje
12 ) 0005 | 0001 / 0055 | 001.82% || 000 | 00 / 21 | 000.00% | ESTAR48 **

The stars indicate for how long the user has been inactive in this club. "Inactive" means, that user hasn't gained any points by reviewing OR by posting.
*: User has been inactive last week
**: User has been inactive for the last two weeks
***: User has been inactive for the last three weeks

If you are inactive for more than three weeks AND if your completion rate falls below 20%, OR if you are inactive for more than four weeks, you are excluded from the list. You may rejoin this club, but your points will be lost.

Statistics:
*Requests This Week: 21
Total Requests All Time: 2324
Reviews Made This Week: 94
Total Reviews All Time: 7453
Average Per Member: 7.83
Average Per Request: 4.47
Sigs Forgotten: 2

*New to the List: None
Leaving the List: Spysociety

*All Requests Completed:
SkyeWintrest, SCTE3 and Soapbubble

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