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The idea
Several people have expressed interest in creating short video to promote the Mel8oure bid.
This was first done for LCA 2003 at Perth, see http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linuxalan/LCA2003/README.html
What we need
- someone to approach Tourism Victoria / City of Melbourne for some stock melbourne footage we could use.
- a video camera, tools to edit the footage and convert to publishable formats.
Peter Lieverdink emailed: We have an analog camera, but also a universal DA converter. Eats RCA plugs, outputs DV via firewire. I've done a fair bit of video editing, but really only with Adobe Premiere. Kino or Cinellera might be a challenge :-)
Avi Miller emailed: I have both a digital video camera and some experience with editing video (I also have access to both Adobe Premiere Pro and iMovie HD). However, while I'm good at the technical aspects of editing video, I've come to realise that I suck as a director. :) I'd be happy to loan my camera for the cause and to push the buttons during the editing process, if someone tells me which shots they want where.
- Spectacular places to film - Melbourne has plenty of these.
- Music backing: does anyone know a local band who have a track they would like us to use?
- Video: Abstract Montage of Melbourne sights and sounds - interspersed with some footage from earlier conferences.
- Audio: V/O Executive summary of the bid.
- Computer Animation: the logo could be used effectivly by animating the Tangram pieces
CALU There are some sound snippets from CALU here: http://www.linux.org.au/conf/1999/ and photos on LUV website
Shot Suggestions
- CSIRAC - Melbourne Museum
- Morning mist on the yarra
- Queen Vic Market
- Brunswick Street
- Lygon Street
- Uni Melb campus
- Trams in the city
- Buskers
- citylink cheese-stick - (Technically meant to look like a zipper opening up -- Julien)
- citylink sound cover
- Arts centre spire
- floral clock
- Puffing Billy
- Real live penguins: Port Phillip Bay or Phillip Island
- Spencer St.^W^W Southern Cross Station (with the new wavy roof)
- Melbourne view from high up, eg Rialto
- Federation square from some strange angle
The Script
This is Kim's vision - feel free to build on it.
Opening shot of Tangram high above Australia.
The Tangram starts to fall, breaking into separate pieces, all falling towards where Melbourne is on the map. This introduces the Tangram (but not yet in the logo arrangement), and where geographically the conference will be.
New shot: Enter Tux. Everyone knows Tux. If we could borrow the Tux suit that would be great. Alternativly we could hire a generic penguin suit (the animal, not formal suit). We may be able to get away with just a fluffy tux.
Tux proceeds to various memorable places around Melbourne, finding a different piece of the Tangram at each place. See shot suggestions above. This gives us a chance to show off Melbourne, while making it relevant to the conference.
Tux proceeds to Melbourne Uni, assembles the Tangram pieces into the Mel8ourne logo which comes alive. This is where the conference comes alive.
- Whilst Tux is cute, and the mascot of linux and all that, I don't reckon we should use him. That was the perth video thing. I do like the tangram idea though a twist could be taking the 'square' tangram, and animating it out into the logo. - Donna.
- Okay, so if we aren't using Tux explicity, we could still use him implicitly (stickers on cars and trams, logos on tshirts of people, etc.). And we could incorporate the key conference themes in the places we visit, so "find/meet" an international luminary, a woman leader, a keynote speaker, etc. - Nathan.
- Yeah - and perhaps there could be a 'find tux' element - like 'where's wally' - eg. we have tux hidden in as many shots as possible, reflections in windows, dangling on keyrings, (there's a tux on pete's bike) - donna
We don't have to use Tux explicitly. I still like the idea of finding Tangram pieces around Melbourne, even if Tux doesn't find them. This could be done directly (with camera shots of the actual pieces sitting on a tram seat, next to landmarks, etc.), or indirectly, (finding a Tangram shape in Federation Square, another piece on a suitably shaped part of a Tram, etc.). The found Tangram pieces could be built up in the corner of the video as as each piece is found. By the end we would have a complete Mel8ourne logo in the corner, which at the end could grow to fill the entire screen. We don't want to create a generic Melbourne video (we could probably find one created by the Victorian Government if that is all we were after), we need to make sure it is tailored to LCA 2008 in Melbourne - Kim.
