The Face of Fedora Video Campaign

Jack Aboutboul jaa at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 22:01:37 UTC 2008


Hello All,

A number of times already we have discussed the development of a video 
series highlighting the members of our community.  The idea was 
suggested multiple times by multiple different people, each one with 
their own twist.  Now that the release is done, and FUDCon is coming up, 
I think we should discuss this in earnest.  It could work out really 
well if we solidified plans in the next couple of weeks because then we 
can take advantage the 120 plus attendees at FUDCon for taping.  I 
already understand that these types of activities will be taking place 
regardless, so might as well jump on the bandwagon.

I think we need to focus on 3 areas:

1. Concept: We have had 3-4 different suggestions on how this should be 
framed and maybe its time to solidify the idea. What do we end up naming 
it? Do we want to professionally produce it, or have user submitted 
videos?  Will we follow a general guideline for such videos or will it 
be freeform?  This will help people who end up 
shooting/editing/aggregating video have a clear definition of what needs 
to be filmed and how it needs to be edited.

2. Content:  What do we want to have the people in the video, doing or 
saying.  What is the message?

3. Presentation: What is the Visual Motif?

For now, I have added it to the task list and have set up a wiki page 
here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Face_of_Fedora and seeded 
it with some content.  Please feel free to add to it.

Hopefully we can discuss this at the meeting tomorrow as well.

What do you guys think?

Thanks

P.S. Colby, I would really like your thoughts on this too, from a video 
professionals standpoint.





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