I love star wipes, they always make me smile. I remember staring at the transitions page on windows movie maker for five minutes musing about what kind of artistically challenged person would use the one with four stars in one wipe –> that’s about 4 times as dumb, exponentially, as the old school star wipe.
See with the others I can almost understand. Keyhole wipe would work if you were actually using a keyhole in your story; and the heart wipe is clearly for uncreative but forgivable couples and their anniversary slideshows.
Incidentally, what sparked these thoughts is my habit of watching trashy television during breaks. My current claim to shame is the most god-awful and thus hilarious show I’ve watched since I glanced over a few episodes of The Surreal Life – A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila.
I’m not even going to talk about the show because that would take me an entire bloody day. But anyway, they randomly used a pink-lined star wipe to transition out of a scene… WTF? Saying nothing about every single other aspect of the show, their transitions have been very decent and inconspicuous until now.
The award for my favourite usage of the star wipe however, goes to Trevor Boris on the 80’s segment of Video on Trial. He stops to acknowledge and honour the star wipe, and then proceeds to demonstrate how he can use it over and over again. Trevor Boris is teh awesome.
Overall, today’s been a very good day. I will not elaborate. Cheers!
