Now what?

Lex

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Hawkeye said:
^True that.


Anywho, I don't really know what to do with this idea, but since FFVII is a game whose story involves an imminent, planet-ending disaster that people know is coming, I was thinking it might be fun if we could do some kind of series through December related to it since December 25, 2012 is supposedly the end of the world (keep paying your bills in the meantime, people).

Maybe call it "Countdown to Doomsday" or "Waiting For the World to End." I don't know. It sounded like fun in my head, but I have no concrete ideas.
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We could stream playthroughs or something? Maybe one title per week for each week in December, ending with the OG? I'm not sure :P
 
Geostigma

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Prince Lex said:
We could stream playthroughs or something? Maybe one title per week for each week in December, ending with the OG? I'm not sure :P
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Good idea.
 
Pixel

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We could probably do some sort of FF7 compilation timeline video series... though id be a bit reluctant seeing how much better gametrailers would present it. But ours would probably be alot more indepth
 
Geostigma

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I can assist in the video editing department if need be.
My nets not terribly fast but as long as the videos are reasonably sized i can grab them up and edit everything together :monster:
 
The Twilight Mexican

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I kind of like that timeline idea, if only to see if ours is better than GameTrailers's own. It would also tie pretty well to the idea of counting down to something, what with a retrospective on FFVII's history.

Though would it have an in-universe focus (i.e. a chronological presentation of the fictional history, a la what GameTrailers is doing) or an out-of-universe focus (i.e. a look at the games in order of production and release)?

We could do the latter to be different from the GT thing, or the former to try to outshine them. Of course, that has the potential drawbacks of a) making us look like we stole their idea or b) inviting negative comparisons if they do it better.

Still, there has apparently been talk of some improved timeline for the site that someone is working on around here. This could be the opportunity to show it off. I think it's worth the risks.
 
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Pixel

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I think in universe, covering everything in the compilation, games, books, movie. I dont think this kinda thing exists anywhere. GTs probably wont be released for months/years.

Id love to see some slick production stuff... i can probably try some stuff out in after effects when i have time

something like this would be nice to incorporate into the presentation



But Script is the most important thing to get right
 
The Twilight Mexican

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That would be fucking slick, yo. Great ideas.

I'm heading off to my cruise in a few hours, but I would be happy to help with a script when I return.
 
Pixel

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I dont mind narrating, if you'd like.

We could also use the temple wall as a story telling tool in the beginning
 
Lex

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YES YES YES YES YES! What a fantastic idea. I'm not sure as yet how I could contribute to this but I'm so on board if there's anything for me to do. And those orbs look awesome.
 
Pixel

Pixel

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There was a girl on youtube who did a story retrospective of ff7, but i cant find it now. Must have been taken down. We might have that problem :/
 
Flintlock

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Flintlock said:
maybe we could get together once a month for a meeting, on IRC/Skype/whatever
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Are we going to make this happen?

Here's a rough outline of what a meeting might look like.

  1. Opening of the meeting (whoever is in charge says what up, decides if someone needs to make minutes of the meeting)
  2. Announcements (for example, if a member of staff is going away for a few weeks)
  3. Reminder of what happened at the previous meeting (briefly)
  4. How TLS is doing (Yop could tell us how the site's traffic has been over the past month, or how much activity the forum has been getting, while those in charge of our social networking profiles could say how they've been getting along with their respective audiences)
  5. Events on TLS in the past month (how did they go, what was the participation level like, how could we improve them in the future etc)
  6. Events that will happen in the next month (what's happening, who will be running them, etc)
  7. Any other business (this would be the time to make suggestions, or to bring up any ongoing problems that need attention)
  8. Next meeting (as the name suggests, we decide when to hold the next one)
  9. Closing of the meeting (whoever is in charge says later fools)
The minutes (in the case of a Skype conversation; if it's held on IRC, then we could just use the chat log) would then be posted on the forum.

If we decide to make the meetings open, then anyone can join and ask questions, make suggestions etc at part 7. If we decide to make them closed, then non-staff members should be able to raise issues that we would then be forced to discuss and respond to - they would also be able to read the minutes, of course. I think open would be better, but it might limit our discussion if any sensitive issues come up.

I expect we're all going to be pretty busy over Christmas, so let's not start until next year. We should agree on a day, say the first Friday of the month (Friday because it would have to be pretty late in the European timezones), and then hold it on the same day every month. Of course, some staff members would be missing from each meeting due to other commitments, but so long as we got at least half of them together, that would make it worthwhile.

In that post, I also mentioned that we should all be clear in our roles. That would be something for the first meeting. "Hi, my name is Flintlock and I'm a TLS addict one of the Facebook profile admins, I write the weekly roundups and occasional other front page articles, I contribute to the site's graphics/layout and I try to organise community events". Something like that.

Any takers?
 
Dana Scully

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The only issue I see with open is that both skype and IRC can get very chaotic and hard to follow if there's a lot of people. That said I do feel they should be open - I think any sensitive stuff could be discussed in another convo. If we do end up having open convos, though, should probably enforce a strict no-spam rule.

Having the meetings on Fridays sounds like a good solution to the timezone issue, so I'm down with that.
 
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