On 09/16/14 05:17, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Chuck Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> And now a bunch of people in the channel want this spoof to get finished >> and become the new theme song for the upcoming 5.6 release. > > Heh. I've been heavily involved in the theme and design of the last > few releases, so I'll make just a few comments:
Thanks for the explanations of how it works behind the scenes. I have often found that when there is a theme I persue the movie or book afterwards and find out new things about it, and the riddle of life. Just lately I found out an illuminati connection to BTTF, which was interesting. Had OpenBSD 5.5 not been this theme I would not have looked up the BTTF on youtube and would have never found this weird documentary, which I didn't fully watch either but what I saw was interesting. Sincerely, -peter > 1) a theme is more than just a song: what's the art about? Who/what > is puffy? Is the theme tying into something specific done in the > release or more general? Will there be enough material for the > booklet and song? > > 2) working with the artist and music director take *time*: you send > some ideas, they think and send questions back, you ponder lyrics and > how to map from the theme to a world with Puffy, you propose more > stuff, much of it too abstract or complex to be presented in a > DVD-case booklet and/or song, they ignore your insanity, you start to > see sketches and character designs, perhaps a demo track. Lather, > rinse, repeat. At some point draft layouts are sent back and you get > concerned with smaller and finer details. The wording for the back > cover is almost the last thing to go into the art. A fully mixed > version of the song shows up. You worry about the exact installer > text to appear in the booklet. A deadline is reached and it all gets > sent off to the factory (and then the next day you find that last > glitch in the wording that you read right over before and kick > yourself repeatedly). That deadline was *LAST MONTH*. The 5.6 theme > came out of a brief conversation while eating during a hackathon in > *April*; I described it to the artist with written description of > possible images on the 1st of May. > > 3) no insult, but committers have dibs on theme selection, in part > because it's a privilege to exercise your creativity in a different > way, but also because it takes both effort and commitment to get it > all done both well and on time. The project needs to know that the > person(s) working with the artist and music director on the theme is > committed to getting it done. > > > Hmm, I should start thinking about what to put on lyrics.html for this > release (that's the *final* chunk of work for the theme)... > > > Philip Guenther
