Nobody said anything, right, that was kinda unnecessary. Sorry.
The thing is, we're still a group of artists pretty
independent of one another, with everyone doing his own thing and, usually, this alone (with only Flamezero being somewhat an exception to this, recording guitar parts for tracks where it seems necessary or is requested on top of doing his own arranges). This does not quite fit the usual definition of a "circle", which implies closer collaboration between the members, or at least a stylistic resemblance.
I don't know if someone here is familiar with the
OverClocked ReMix community, but our album project does more resemble their albums (huge number of artists, everyone doing only a small number of tracks, mostly just one, great variety in styles) than a "traditional" Touhou doujin album. And they aren't calling themselves a
circle, but a
community, because that's what they are.
So much about the circle thing.
Choosing one single track for a PV won't work even in a promotional sense, because we're only attracting the audience fond of that particular style, and I wouldn't gamble on the chosen track being so good it can even attract people (keep in mind, we're talking about outsiders here, who are contemplating spending their money on this) not fond of listening to the style in the first place.
... Oh well, maybe I was just thinking more from the view of a listener, who would buy this album after seeing a PV of a certain track, only to be disappointed that the vast majority of the album sounds completely different than expected (and I've been there multiple times).
Still, of course we have a lot of potential here, but this will only promote a fraction of this.
Multiple PVs are better, of course, but we don't have the time for that, at least until this Comiket.
... But wait, this Comiket, we only plan to release a sampler anyway. So the slideshow thing does indeed seem the best solution, especially with the huge amount of art compared to the music.
So why are we even discussing animated Flash PVs then? Oh yeah, right, that's how the other circles do it.
