On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Jeff Spaleta <<a href="mailto:jspaleta@gmail.com">jspaleta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just as an experiment... would anyone be willing to setup a laptop<br>
with a video capture camera running cheese at FUDCon so we can capture<br>
some candid documentary styled interviews of individual contributors?<br>
I want video of people sitting down, stating their names and answer a<br>
single pre-defined question. I don't need it to be high quality. I<br>
just want to experiment with this sort of footage as a way to put a<br>
human face on the project but doesn't need a lot of editting to be<br>
useful.<br>
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So if you are going to FUDCon and think this is an interesting<br>
experiment, here is what I'd like to see.<br>
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1) A laptop with cheese running set up so that people can sit down in<br>
front of a reasonable neutral background...blank wall of any color<br>
would be fine.<br>
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2) A simple script that we ask everyone to follow where they are asked<br>
to state their name, state the question they are going to answer and<br>
state the answer.<br>
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3) Give people a time limit of a couple of minutes per personal theora video.<br>
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So the only thing is really.. what question to ask people. If<br>
someone is willing to put the hardware together to attempt to<br>
experiment. I'll convince the Board to provide the question to ask and<br>
we'll see how this sort of thing goes over. If we like the result and<br>
think we can use it, we can replicate it by asking ambassadors to<br>
repeat this sort of thing at different global events and build up<br>
footage in different languages that we can edit together as needed for<br>
marketing purposes.<br>
<br>
-jef<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Jeff,<br><br>I'd be happy to experiment with this. I've got my eeep c with a webcam working, just need to see if we can actually save the video on it. If not, I've got a webcam <br>
that I can experiment with in the next couple weeks and get cheese working.<br><br>This sounds like fun!<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Clint<br><br><br><br><br> </div></div><br>