[Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

[Lennart Guldbrandsson]

Okay. I hope that I didn't stifle your comment, though. One idea:

Feel free to dub in your own voices if you want voices. That could be very
cool!

Best wishes,

Lennart

2011/9/28 Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>

> Hi Lennart,
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
> <wikihannibal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for your input. They are not late at all. I have worked with
> > writing and films for about ten years now, so I do not take your comments
> > personally. The only comment that is new is that I should leave the
> > director's chair to someone else. If you could be more specific about
> that,
> > I would be grateful.
>
> It's a very fair question and I think you've exposed that my comment
> where I sort of "blame it on the director" wasn't thought through or
> was just a bit woolly. You listed a number of things wondering whether
> I would criticise those and I am pleased to say, no, I didn't think
> those things were wrong.
>
> I suppose I felt it would have been the director who would have made
> the decision to have in the videos "speaking" parts that would be
> rendered in silence. But I guess that may have been a decision a
> *writer* would have made.
>
> So, sorry, I should not have made the director comment.
>
> > What we were after were
> > not only that people would stand and watch the entire films - it was to
> make
> > the stand more lively than with only text, or worse, with computer code.
> > Human movement on screens at the back of the stand were very effective at
> > getting people to stop,
>
> OK. Yes, I can see how that would work. I'm sure they worked well for
> that. So please feel free only to take my comments as far as you find
> them useful and discard anything you feel "missed the point".
>
> To reiterate, I thought the videos looked very polished and professional.
>
> Bodnotbod
>
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