No, the other one.
I think the blood works, actually. You don't have blood splattered like that for no reason. If you're not fond of gory stuff, you probably don't want to know where it came from.
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Yeah. Aside from those suggestions being perhaps too graphic, I don't think they fit the trope. The idea is that you see the blood or similar splattered about, but nothing more, including where it came from. Showing the wrist and blade defeats that.
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On another note, those images could go in the Bath Suicide IP thread going on now.
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I'm pretty sure they were already suggested there, hence the OP mentioning another thread.
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The current image doesn't appear as though it is being discrete about where the blood came from, though. It just looks like someone sneezed. In that regard, at least, the suggestion is better (though I'm not sure it's better overall).
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No, the other one.
Or maybe it's just red paint.
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Gory Discretion Shot doesn't mean that they're being discreet about where the blood came from. The discretion is in not showing the actual injury that caused the blood taking place.
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Exactly. Thank you.
It seems very strong to me. The whole idea is showing a blood spatter and not the actual violence.
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That's it exactly, Rodney. The descretion being exercised is not showing what caused the blood. The current blood spatter is a stronger example of a Gory Discretion Shot than the hand, blade, and blood is, because it shows ''less' of what happened.
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The current works well enough for now.
"It just looks like someone sneezed."
If someone were sneezing blood, and you just hear an "ah-choo" sounds and blood spatter against a wall, that is totally a Gory Discretion Shot. Just less gory than other sources of blood spatter.
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Current's perfect. Minimalist, but illustrates the trope pretty perfectly.
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Critiquing the current image, I'm no C.S.I. but it's lacking directionality to convey that it was actually from some attack occuring at a location X.
So it's not bad, but we could probably work out something better.
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I saw this
◊ image
◊ being suggested in another thread, but I thought it'll probably fit this trope. The current picture in this trope is just some blood on transparency. It does nothing to hint that something gruesome is going on. It's just... blood.
I've known about it since the beginning. But I just refused to believe it.