Jan/Feb Contests and Site Changes

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Comment by Liam on March 12, 2010 at 10:45am

so what does the doc. need now? im in the mood for some zed head filming.

Comment by Daniel on March 8, 2010 at 10:17am

I'm all for a storyboard. One of the big things LZ has been lacking was few directions as to what content is desired. While was the contests were good stuff, I remember the Grid being a good tool(what happened to that?), but it has been mostly make your own stuff as you desire. Unless I'm completely blind. I'd definitally recommend more guidance for desired material.

Comment by Skot (Lost) on March 8, 2010 at 9:41am

Guys, this is great feedback.

I was going to respond to all this feedback here, but this deserves another video post.

I'll have something up a little later.

Comment by zeeK on March 7, 2010 at 2:34am

I was thinking and the thing that sucked me into the site personally was the timeline, maybe if you're logged out the first thing you see is a link to the time line or the time line alone.. To be honest it kind of seems almost put out of the way or not as simple to find what a HUGE point on the site is

Comment by Liam on March 5, 2010 at 2:29pm

urm...

Comment by Liam on March 5, 2010 at 7:22am

I asumed that is what the contests are all about, Skot is focusing us on areas he needs instead of using a story board and using the carrot (as opposed to the stick) method to encourage people to send in their work.

Good point from Laz, as per usual, re: how the individual stories will bolt together, i had wondered but didn't think to ask...

Comment by Laz on March 5, 2010 at 12:53am

One thing I have pretty much forgotten to ask for about 2 years now, is will the doc be made up of user created individual stories bolted together chronologically, or will all the submissions from the website be analysed and 'harvested' (in a good way) for the bits of footage that will then be used to tell the story? if that makes sense?

if for example its the latter, then things like storyboarding or a having well written plot for your submissions are not needed and the time doing those things (writing, heavy editing, character development etc..) can be spent on other things such as getting more raw footage?

or it may be that a mix of both style of submissions are needed lol, i dont know just some questions

Comment by Laz on March 5, 2010 at 12:48am

maybe for some parts which Skot thinks are essential for the story, to have some storyboards made out, while other parts of the story such as safe house stories, video diaries or how you got from work to your safe place etc, would have no guidance and be completely user inspired?

Comment by Bunkerbewahrer on March 4, 2010 at 2:55pm

i would kill for storyboards, that would be very cool to get to know what kind of stuff is exactly needed, would be good if skot could point out maybe some more concrete details of what he wants to have, the timeline and the rest is detailed of course, but also allows you alot of freedom what you do, if you cut down on that unnecessary creativity, im sure i wouldnt waste to much time on experiments and wouldnt try out new techniques, but for a doc it would be better maybe to have some mores strict guidelines.

Comment by Brian Mark on March 4, 2010 at 1:05pm

I agree with laz.

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