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Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by protomyth on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:10PM (#5433989)
Are you really sure about "money shot"? I know the porn reference, but I've heard it in multiple contexts over the years to refer to the photo (or in a more modern context video) that will sell it (whatever it is).
Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by AdrianRossouw on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:32PM (#5434100)
According to wikipedia [1], it was originally the scene in a film that took the most money to reproduce. And is used in journalism and many other fields.

The relation to porn is of course obvious due to the presentation's subtitle, referring to something as a 'money shot' should probably not be considered pornographic in intent, in my opinion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_shot

Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by subsystem on Sunday March 24, 2013 @07:08PM (#5434247)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6vNEDMzgw

"I'm co-opting the term money shot, because I think it's very valuable... we all know what it is, if you don't know you can google it because I'm not going to talk about it, but if you co-opt the concept what you come away with is the content people actually care about and that is what people pay for in porn..."

If you can't talk about the title it's probably not a very good one.

Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by gaylemcd on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:15PM (#5434020)
Yes, it's really, really a reference to porn. The abstract even mentioned thinking like a porn director to get the money shot.
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Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by anigbrowl on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:37PM (#5434119)
It's a film term that has acquired a secondary meaning in porn. In regular movies it's a shot where you blow something or stage some similarly expensive setpiece that will provide a visual highlight for the film, and it's still current in that context - on a crew it's normal to discuss scheduling in relation to the day's 'money' shot, and the term is often stretched to include whichever shot is the most aesthetically important one for the current scene. Obviously, in this case the person explicitly referenced the porn context.

I thought that the porn context was quite inappropriate myself and broadly supported Richards at the time, although I also think she should have taken her concerns directly to the organizers first. I'm not really offended by porn, but I'd rather not watch it myself, and it's very predictable that it will be offensive to quite a few other people, who'll feel excluded from that presentation even if they're interested in the technical topic (making effective screencasts). In the organizers' position I'd have asked the presenter to consider something more general, such as 'what you can learn from movie directors'.