video/documentation/narrative

[amonks]

maybe this has to come last.

desktop performance? actual camera? who knows.

[effincleveland]

we should find some inspiration videos to get an idea how we want to portray "the brand": https://vimeo.com/17414202 https://vimeo.com/105256055 (i like the humor - but idk how humor will function given our context)

i think a mix of screenshots and good quality footage of "happy people" could be interesting.

we should think about the primary motive of the video. obviously for like documentation/exposure, but what ways can we make it more engaging? (if that makes sense i.e, "The Angle")

[amonks]

[for memory later: the above vimeo links are to the satromizer and to miranda july's somebody app]

[amonks]

how can we make it feel like "all the cool kids are doin' it"

[effincleveland]

that should totally be the angle. who are the "cool" new media artists right now? (maybe there is something to learn; aesthetic/approach wise)

La Turbo http://turboavedon.com/ Yung Jake http://yungjake.tumblr.com/ Vince McKelvie https://vincemckelvie.com/

[amonks]

[see #6 for relevant thoughts on general documentation narrative] [regretting making two threads]

[effincleveland]

yeah totally, maybe two narratives (artist, viewer). parallel action?

shots: artist slavin away at photoshop something to indicate the artist wants an audience??? artist uploads gif viewer frowning at online ad viewer installs plugin viewer sees gif, posts it to facebook or something artist sees gif posted by someone else on facebook is happy -andrew

[amonks]

from #6, which I closed:

besides a website, what does documentation mean?

it'd be cool to have a video, which could mean a lot of things.

how do we get attention?

—me

and

i think good documentation has a message embeded in it. like an advertisement almost. something to make documentation more engaging.

there should be some sort of like, interesting narrative element, something interesting that aligns with the functionality of the plugin; and potentially plays off the context of new media artist, or private art school, or both?

—you

[amonks]

incentives

when I was thinking about that shot list / pair of user stories above, the only tangible incentive I could think of for artists was the facebook post.

thoughts:

• is it important to charge a dollar? [yes if we're gonna have to moderate 24/7] [not rly for server costs, even if this gets huge it'll cost <5$/month]
• there's something very art/internet about not moderating the gifs, but if we're asking ppl to insert them into all of their web browsing then i'm not sure
• "this many ppl have seen your gif" would be very tangible. we'd need the plugin send data back to the cloud. we could do a page on the website with a list of all the current gifs and their "stats"
• we could put / allow links in the gifs
• ^ this invites spam, which means we'd definitely need to moderate
• ^ we kinda talked about this in the slack: ads as art vs ads for art.
• ^ links can be art
• ^ are "ads for art" really that bad?