On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:26 +0530, Shayon Mukherjee wrote:

Hi all,

I missed to discuss this in the meeting today (personal reasons :-) ) . So I have a concept/idea on what Promo video should be like.Since it is just a proposal , further additions or opinions are very much welcome. Before you start - try to imagine the scenario as it goes and sorry in advance , my writing skills are not excellent :-) so it may be difficult for you to understand . But together we can work this out.

Layout- The theme of the video will be: Statue feature - people or rather the surrounding stops (giving an astonished look [1] ) seeing a person using openSUSE and the feature (the latest additions). And when the boy moves out (giving a bit strange and cute look) - shut his Laptops lid , things get back to normal , that is - no one is in statue mode anymore .

For example , say the First Scene could be- The boy is with his machine (laptop) in the park (something like this [2] ) browsing the system also at the same time the feature will be showcased and a Man passes by, it would great if we make him wear a geek t-shirt :-) . Okay! , so as soon the man sees the boy working on his machine the man stops (statue mode) giving an astonished look - a bit less than this [1] :-) .Then the boys eye turns toward the man , he wonders what happened and moves out . [[ End of first scene]].

This kind of thing goes on , say for around 2 more scenes , thus making it more interesting. Say the second scene in a mall?. And then we end the movie by mentioning "openSUSE XX.X - Get it or stay where you are" (well we can improvise the statement too- this is just for now :-) )

So now , I am waiting to hear from you all . On how we can modify this more or you have something else to share? If so plz reply back .

One last thing , this kind of thing can take a lot of time . So IMO it would be better for 12.0 . Or , am I the only thinking that way :-) ?

[1] http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1569/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1569R-1... [2] http://shayonj.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/arnot-hill-walk-in-the-park.jpg

Thanks and waiting to hear from you all !

-- Regards SJ (Shayon) openSUSE Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:wwarlock http://shayonj.wordpress.com/

I get what you're saying and I see potential. My only concern is People are frozen while the boy is running openSUSE? Doesn't that send the wrong message? :-) Maybe something else (if we can do some trick editing) like.... People are walking around in the park, it is black and white scene... People look dull and dreary. Young boy enters park and opens his laptop. Zoom in his finger pushing the power button. openSUSE Logo appears on the screen. All of a sudden loud powerful music. Boy turns his laptop around and aims the monitor all around him and people are suddenly in color and cheerful looking. The boy looks around and makes sure color is everywhere and is satisfied he has done his work well and closes his laptop. And leaves to his next destination. People dance and celebrate and shout and do funny things. Video ends with list of some primary features. New video following on this "openSUSE Boy Hero" concept. Boy is in a new location (something other than park) and does the same thing colorizing his world around him. Similar concept to other video and close the video with even more feature lists. How about also, we change boy to girl, to show we are a community of both men and women? Just my thoughts. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Hi, I hope you don't understand me wrong with this participation, but I think it's one of the best Linux promotional videos I've ever seen and does fit a wide audience. I know it's Fedora, and though I'm a Fedora Marketing contributor, we weren't even aware of it. Please notice that openSUSE does offer different value perceived by the users, and has trump cards like OpenOffice Novell Edition that are pretty nice. This video is Goddard and GNOME, which also is interesting if we look by Novell's/OpenSUSE view because once more we applications like Evolution that are nice. I would probably fit also somewhere AppArmor ;) Anyway, this is a just a though on how we can keep simplicity and deliever a powerful message to our audiences. This video was made by Russian Fedora (http://www.russianfedora.ru), and from my scope of view it's the best I've seen promoting Linux. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCO0jT6L3Q nelson. PS: My goal is not advertising Fedora, just show work from one of our contributors and eventually show that simplicity can bring finesse and pass a powerful message. Some references of interest: Me: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nmarques My turf: http://aborrecido.wordpress.com (temporary, soon will swap to http://nmarques.digitalwhores.com) Color Meanings: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Color_Meanings On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:26 +0530, Shayon Mukherjee wrote:

Hi all,

I missed to discuss this in the meeting today (personal reasons :-) ) . So I have a concept/idea on what Promo video should be like.Since it is just a proposal , further additions or opinions are very much welcome. Before you start - try to imagine the scenario as it goes and sorry in advance , my writing skills are not excellent :-) so it may be difficult for you to understand . But together we can work this out.

Layout- The theme of the video will be: Statue feature - people or rather the surrounding stops (giving an astonished look [1] ) seeing a person using openSUSE and the feature (the latest additions). And when the boy moves out (giving a bit strange and cute look) - shut his Laptops lid , things get back to normal , that is - no one is in statue mode anymore .

For example , say the First Scene could be- The boy is with his machine (laptop) in the park (something like this [2] ) browsing the system also at the same time the feature will be showcased and a Man passes by, it would great if we make him wear a geek t-shirt :-) . Okay! , so as soon the man sees the boy working on his machine the man stops (statue mode) giving an astonished look - a bit less than this [1] :-) .Then the boys eye turns toward the man , he wonders what happened and moves out . [[ End of first scene]].

This kind of thing goes on , say for around 2 more scenes , thus making it more interesting. Say the second scene in a mall?. And then we end the movie by mentioning "openSUSE XX.X - Get it or stay where you are" (well we can improvise the statement too- this is just for now :-) )

So now , I am waiting to hear from you all . On how we can modify this more or you have something else to share? If so plz reply back .

One last thing , this kind of thing can take a lot of time . So IMO it would be better for 12.0 . Or , am I the only thinking that way :-) ?

[1] http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1569/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1569R-1... [2] http://shayonj.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/arnot-hill-walk-in-the-park.jpg

Thanks and waiting to hear from you all !

-- Regards SJ (Shayon) openSUSE Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:wwarlock http://shayonj.wordpress.com/

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 18:23 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:

Hi,

I hope you don't understand me wrong with this participation, but I think it's one of the best Linux promotional videos I've ever seen and does fit a wide audience. I know it's Fedora, and though I'm a Fedora Marketing contributor, we weren't even aware of it.

Please notice that openSUSE does offer different value perceived by the users, and has trump cards like OpenOffice Novell Edition that are pretty nice. This video is Goddard and GNOME, which also is interesting if we look by Novell's/OpenSUSE view because once more we applications like Evolution that are nice.

I would probably fit also somewhere AppArmor ;)

Anyway, this is a just a though on how we can keep simplicity and deliever a powerful message to our audiences. This video was made by Russian Fedora (http://www.russianfedora.ru), and from my scope of view it's the best I've seen promoting Linux.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCO0jT6L3Q

nelson.

PS: My goal is not advertising Fedora, just show work from one of our contributors and eventually show that simplicity can bring finesse and pass a powerful message. Some references of interest:

Me: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nmarques My turf: http://aborrecido.wordpress.com (temporary, soon will swap to http://nmarques.digitalwhores.com) Color Meanings: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Color_Meanings

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:26 +0530, Shayon Mukherjee wrote:

...

Hi all,

I missed to discuss this in the meeting today (personal reasons :-) ) . So I have a concept/idea on what Promo video should be like.Since it is just a proposal , further additions or opinions are very much welcome. Before you start - try to imagine the scenario as it goes and sorry in advance , my writing skills are not excellent :-) so it may be difficult for you to understand . But together we can work this out.

Layout- The theme of the video will be: Statue feature - people or rather the surrounding stops (giving an astonished look [1] ) seeing a person using openSUSE and the feature (the latest additions). And when the boy moves out (giving a bit strange and cute look) - shut his Laptops lid , things get back to normal , that is - no one is in statue mode anymore .

For example , say the First Scene could be- The boy is with his machine (laptop) in the park (something like this [2] ) browsing the system also at the same time the feature will be showcased and a Man passes by, it would great if we make him wear a geek t-shirt :-) . Okay! , so as soon the man sees the boy working on his machine the man stops (statue mode) giving an astonished look - a bit less than this [1] :-) .Then the boys eye turns toward the man , he wonders what happened and moves out . [[ End of first scene]].

This kind of thing goes on , say for around 2 more scenes , thus making it more interesting. Say the second scene in a mall?. And then we end the movie by mentioning "openSUSE XX.X - Get it or stay where you are" (well we can improvise the statement too- this is just for now :-) )

So now , I am waiting to hear from you all . On how we can modify this more or you have something else to share? If so plz reply back .

One last thing , this kind of thing can take a lot of time . So IMO it would be better for 12.0 . Or , am I the only thinking that way :-) ?

[1] http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1569/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1569R-1... [2] http://shayonj.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/arnot-hill-walk-in-the-park.jpg

Thanks and waiting to hear from you all !

-- Regards SJ (Shayon) openSUSE Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:wwarlock http://shayonj.wordpress.com/

Interesting, it uses Animoto.com to create the video. Will have to look into that as a potential tool for us to use. Thanks Nelson! Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org