Well - two posts again... I wasn't going to send this along today, but since I'm here and can..
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IVmxqNUR0VjlpUTg/edit?usp=sharing It might make sense with the two documents above...don't get too lost in the weeds with anything in that last collection of files - it WILL be replaced on Monday. //drew On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>wrote: > Howdy folks, > > Well, kind of a long 2-3 days.. > > I've done some work on content creation, but right now wanted to look > firstly at an overall focus and appropriate motif/themes for the project. > > Following are the beginning of that work - I have a free weekend coming up > and plan to have the first real draft of the two documents finished by > Monday - along with some examples of how to apply the motif and themes. > > So - if folks want to comment on what is here, great, but you may like to > hold off till I post up the finished first draft and examples. > > Media Library Overview > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IaXRTUHpCQURGTEE > > Media Library Motif/themes > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0Ia3VBQU9RUDJkdWs > > > One of the over arching goals of this is to put in a place a defined set > of artifacts and work process so that collaboration can easily take place, > for example. > Volunteers can focus on content creation, without much if any concern on > branding as the content would then be 'wrapped' into the branding by > applying a theme and defined final presentation layout. > > The motif should also work for content such as video from conference > presentations, use with video conferencing systems such as Google Hangouts > and in the examples on Monday it will address the Google Hangouts use > directly. > > Final note, when you look at the second document don't get too wrapped up > with the secondary graphics, mostly it's just working out layout rules and > the like. > > I will be back on-line again then on Monday, or possibly Tuesday next > week, but no later then that. > > //drew > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 8/2/13 10:30 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> > On 30/07/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: >> >> I've been plowing ahead with my ideas here; not just as a single >> activity >> >> to produce one or two videos but rather to start a framework for a >> >> project >> >> multi-media resources library, from which multiple videos, for multiple >> >> purposes, would be generated. It could also be used to generate themed >> >> artifacts for fliers/presentations/artwork(wallpapers, etc) that tie in >> >> with these videos. >> > >> > This is a great idea. The project can surely use better marketing >> > materials, be it video chunks, screenshots, images, nice documents that >> > show the new features... >> >> I agree it's a good idea and I had the same ... But I wasn't able to >> finish my tests in time for the 4.0 release. >> >> But in general I think we should establish our own YouTube channel where >> we provide screencasts and other media files on a regular basis. >> >> Important is that we use a common framework and Drew started in this >> direction already. >> >> We need a common credit section for the end of all media files, with >> some community info, links, donation info etc. >> >> A common intro section would also make sense, or maybe a collection of >> 1-5 different including seasonal ones like a Christmas branded intro or >> so. >> >> Screencast are better than a slideshow, at least if possible we should >> trz to produce short screencast sections based on a script. And ideally >> a native speaker with a good voice can provide a related spoken >> explanation to the screencast (Drew's voice sounds well to me). >> >> > >> >> For the 'community' category - These pieces: >> >> CommunityBeforeCode_loop.mp4, suitable for use at a show table running >> >> on a >> >> laptop, voice over, no musical background - notice I did not tag this >> >> with >> >> a license. >> >> AOO4_HotTamaleBaby.mp4 and hottamale.mp4 take that basic loop and add a >> >> little party music. >> > >> > The result is nice, but the music covers the voice at times. Also, I >> > would keep links very simple, so not openoffice.apache.org and not the >> > full URL to the inner pages. I think it's "Community over code" and not >> > "before code". For the rest, it's impressive to see how the single >> > chunks can be rearranged to target different use cases. The voiceover is >> > good and clear. >> >> we can have both music sections (with hopefully different music ;-)) and >> voice over sections where a clear voice give explanations. >> >> > >> >> So, my vision would be to at the end deliver, somehow, for the >> >> projects use >> >> an ISO with all the files used to produce the works, this would >> >> include the >> >> OpenShot and Pitivi (and other) project files, it would include some >> >> instructions (which we would build as we do this) on how to make use >> >> of the >> >> material. >> > >> > This would be perfect. At the moment we don't have many OpenOffice 4 >> > specific materials, so any well-done videos/graphics are welcome. >> >> yes and with some more experience it should be really fun to produce >> stuff like this ... I tried to play with iMovie on my Mac (see my very >> first attempts http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/AOO40_Test.mov) and I >> just played around a bit... >> >> Juergen >> >> >> >> >> What I would hope could be done, if the good folks at source forge are >> >> willing which I expect hey would be, is to generate a small and >> changing >> >> over time set of videos and have these dished out to users in round >> robin >> >> fashion. >> > >> > This is stuff that we could also use on the main openoffice.orgwebsite, >> > not only on the download site. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Andrea. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >
