Artistic GTK+-branding wanted

Right now I’m doing my best to coordinate the editing and encoding work for the GTK+-hackfest interviews (some volunteers I still have to answer). What I’m looking for at the moment is GTK+-ish branding for the videos. All interviews should share the same look and feel in terms of branding. Everybody with some (or a lot) of experience in these regards is welcomed to send in suggestions (e.g. templates as SVG would be great). Try to stick as much as you can to established cues from GTK+ (read: don’t go for MTV-like graffiti-style… while that by itself might look stylish, that’s just not GTK+… you get the idea).
I’ll collect your submissions for a week and then let a vote on the top 5 (depending on how much material I get) happen on my blog here.
Here are a couple of guidelines to consider:

  • branding-overlay using GTK-logo, name of interviewed dev, main project/company affiliation of dev
  • intro- and outro-screen
  • provide templates of screen-layout as SVG
  • have 4:3 and 16:9 aspect-ratio versions
  • PAL 720×576 (4:3 aspect)
  • your work has to be CC-SA-BY

Add anything you’d find helpful or missing from the above list.

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8 Responses to “Artistic GTK+-branding wanted”

  1. Malcolm Parsons Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    > PAL 720×567 (3:2 aspect)

    720 x 480 would be 3:2.

    PAL is normally 768×576.

  2. Milho Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    It depends. To make it short, and rather correct:

    720×576 is the “official” correct format if you capture from a PAL medium because TV dont have quadratic “pixels”.
    So 1.066666:1 is a picture unit at the TV multiplied with 720 you get you 768×576 for Computers in correct 4:3.

    I bet it is a typo and MacSlow meant 720×576 (4:3)

    Cheers

  3. Milho Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 2:41 am

    Not that I have too much time, but I invested an hour.
    This is only the lower third (bauchbinde in German) and a logo.
    If you like it I can fine tune it and give the intro and outro a shot.

    http://download.bfloch.com/private/_extern/bauchbinde_p01_v07.mov
    BTW the Quicktime is only to challange you ;-)

    Compositing is bitmap based (in almost all cases) so no svg. But I can render it for you in Ultra Definition so you are prepared for the next 5 years ^_._^

    Cheers
    Mil’

  4. MacSlow Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    @Malcolm: See Milho’s comment :)

    @ Milho: That’s already very nice and the first contribution I received so far. Thanks a lot! I would like to see where you can take your inital design for an intro and outro. Whenever you find the time.

  5. Malcolm Parsons Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    @MacSlow: you still need to s/567/576/

  6. Milho Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Here’s a finetuned version. Sorry for no sound. Looks better with more advanced Compression ;-)
    http://download.bfloch.com/private/_extern/bauchbinde_p01_v09.mov

    Now I start with the intro and outro fun.

  7. Milho Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 1:36 am

    BTW this is the complete intro preview:
    http://download.bfloch.com/private/_extern/intro_p01_v09.mov

    I’m waiting for all the details and names to finish this off.
    Cheers

  8. Thomas Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Wow, very impressive Milho

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