branding feedback

feedback:
I did not get much proposals for the theming/branding of the GTK+-hackfest interviews. It was just one. But that single one is very impressive, I believe. Take a look at this example:

It was done by a very close friend of mine, Blasius “Milho” Floch, who happens to study communication-design. Furthermore a colleague at Canonical David “komputes” Bensimon, GStreamer/pitivi-overlord Edward “bilboed” Hervey and a few others offered help with encoding and compressing the videos. I’ll get back to you all once I’ve the raw intros and outros for every interviewed person.

more help needed:
To continue the work on the GTK+-hackweek interview editing, I need to collect a bit more info about a few interviewed people. In the following list you see the people I don’t know or remember either their exact nickname and/or company-affiliation at the time of the GTK+-hackweek 2008. It would be nice if these people could drop me a brief eMail with the missing information. Thanks in advance!

  • Alberto Ruiz
  • Alex Larsson
  • Alp Toker
  • Andrew Cowie
  • Carlos Garnacho
  • Cody Russell
  • Dennis Oliver Kropp
  • Hans Petter Jansson
  • Johan Dahlin
  • Juerg Billeter
  • Kris Rietveld
  • Lennart Pöttering
  • Mathias Hasselmann
  • Richard Hult
  • Rob Taylor
  • Ryan Lortie
  • Tor Lillqvist
  • Torsten Schoenefeld

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11 Responses to “branding feedback”

  1. Sander Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    You look quite bored ;-)

    I like it, except for the ’spiking walls’ at the start, they look a bit like glitches..

  2. Matt Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Wow, that is impressive!

  3. MacSlow Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    @ Sander: That’s because of the “gap”-time we put infront of each interview, so editors have some headroom for cutting work. The reason for the GTK+-logo-cube jerking around like that, was to indicate that a lot is happening with GTK+ :)

  4. Alvaro Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Hi Mirco, what toolset was used in making such templates? Looks good, by the way!

  5. MacSlow Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    @ Alvaro: You’ll have to ask that to Milho. He works on that. You’ll find his contact-info on his homepage.

  6. craig Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Wow - looks great :-)

    Two thoughts…

    What about if in the opening graphic, the cube shrunk down a bit as it slides into place, timed/scaled with the text flowing in. Does that make sense? The cube is very dominant over the text, so perhaps sizing it down would help the text get a bit more attention.

    And at the start of the interview (the sit down time - which is excellent, keep that in the final interview editing) I’m finding that the flashing cube on the back wall is distracting me from the title/intro text that flows onto the screen (it feels like both elements are competing for my attention). [Was that intentional or is it the monitor and camera are not synced?]

    P.S. … is there supposed to be sound (or is my setup broken). I find it hard to judge media graphics without the accompanying music, as it’s about the full presentation.

  7. MacSlow Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    @ craig: We’ll see if Milho will pick up your suggestion :) I’m sorry for the out-of-sync between the projector (putting the logo at the wall) and the camera I recorded with. There was no way to synchronize both their scan-outs. There’s no sound in that example.

  8. craig Says:
    April 15th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    If the projector was just for a logo (not for content) then perhaps a printout or compositing it into the video after the fact would give a better effect.

    Look forward to the videos…

  9. Jeff Walden Says:
    April 15th, 2009 at 4:01 am

    You should start using the HTML5 video element to embed these directly in your posts; planet software will pass through video elements (possibly a bleeding-edge version, all I know is that Planet Mozilla has such a version installed), so anyone viewing planet.gnome.org directly won’t have to click through to view the video. Not to mention that it’s super-cool to be able to just upload ogg to a server, put a little HTML in place, and have it Just work in any browser that supports it. :-) You’d still want to put a link for the “deprived” souls to download it, of course, but embedding the video directly would be strictly better than not doing so, in terms of accessibility of the video.

  10. Lee Jarratt Says:
    May 15th, 2009 at 2:39 am

    Hello,
    Nice work but isn’t the background that is used on the video the same background on the Zune Media Player software? It looks very similar.. If not then awesome still :D

    Lee

  11. Lee Jarratt Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Hello,

    I think someone had accidentally deleted my previous reply, no worries, I’ll just submit another one:

    I love this proposal but isn’t the background at the end and beginning of the proposal the background you can find on the Zune Media Player product? If not then awesome creative work man :)

    Lee Jarratt

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