YouTube Proposals
Planning to film an elaborate stunt for your proposal? These can either fall massively flat, or make you a legend. We know this because quite a few of them are available to view on YouTube; some of which are very cool and some of which are unspeakably hideous. Here’s a selection of the best and worst we’ve seen recently.
Trailer Trash
In case you haven’t seen it, this is the stunt proposal many see as the benchmark. We presume its fans are mostly American.
On the one hand, you have to admire the scale of this. Getting the cinema to agree to take part, timing the entrance perfectly and actually producing a pretty well edited little trailer. On the other hand, it’s awful. The whole idea is rather cringeworthy and for all the effort, the trailer itself is quite poorly executed. We all know the language of trailers so well that the jig is up as soon as you see the shoddy visuals and hear the limp voiceover.
Smooth
This guy has quite cleverly employed a scenario in which the presence of the camera and even the appearance of the ring are not too conspicuous.
Ruff!
This hapless chap has relied on the wrong friend to help out with the filming.
The Six Year Itch
This takes far too long. By the end of the video you feel like you’ve been waiting six years too.
The Cake Is Not A Lie
Now this, we like. It’s clever, it’s cool and it’s so perfectly executed you could easily be fooled into thinking it was part of the real game.
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That Portal one is legendary. Not just because I love the game, but because it was something they were both into. It was about them and *that’s* what makes a proposal perfect.
Got some worrying emails in the last month or so of people worrying about whether their proposal is “big” enough. That’s part of what concerns me about the YT proposals. They’re encouraged to go bigger and set the abr impossibly high. Plus I also don’t like it when TV companies get involved, it’s about the couple, not us getting our kicks watching the couple, that’s another thing.
If people want to do this sort of thing, then huzzah – send us the video. Don’t feel obliged I guess is the message, you asking her to marry you will be big enough. Providing you’re not an eejit.
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