Tsunami Jones wrote:Well, for me personally, if you went with love, my interest level would shoot through the floor for wanting to participate. The cities idea would have the opposite effect on me. So, more original themes would have me more interested.
Love was just there as a simple and obvious example to explain the idea. Me? Do love? Riiiight. I would sooner say nice things about Sammy or appologize to the mods for all the times they have to go behind me deleting posts of me being a dick. Dedicated to my wife is probably the closest I'll ever get to doing a romance. I prefer the unusual so the cities idea would be high on my list unless someone mentions another idea that strikes my interest as much.
Streicher wrote:Will the videos be edited at the same time with everyone getting a certain sub-theme or will they be made one after each other so the next editor can see where the other left off?
This isn't the telephone project, the deadline would be the same for all segments. Although I'd like for people to show betas and if possible to include things that reflect on each others segments. For example, with the cities idea a feudal era shrine could be inserted into later segments as if it were a historical building, similar to how some American cities have 1700 era colonial buildings in middle of a cities high rise downtown. Perhaps with careful source selection a future tech citizen could have a similar, although advanced, style of clothing as shown in a modern age segment. Maybe a car from an earlier segment drives down the street like it was an old classic. I'm sure there are other ways of tying together the segments if I thought about it. Nothing major and attention drawing of course, just small things in the background that a viewer might think is neat if they caught it.
Otohiko wrote:In retrospect one thing that irked me slightly is the tendency to slip into action.
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I'd really like to see an MEP that finally accomplishes something in a serious sense thematically, rather than through sheer flash.
Hopefully making clear that the segments are meant to directly reflect and advance a central theme rather than stand on their own would cut down on unnecessary action or effects although now that you mention it that'd be something to explicitly spell out in the ground rules.
Scintilla wrote:Personally, I've always wanted to see a video to "A Hundred Years" that ran like this, though I know that's probably not quite what you had in mind.
<a href="http://www.lyrics-top.com/1705-238/Five-for-Fighting/100-Years.html">This song</a>? I've never heard it although with the lyrics I could see something like my idea to it. Depending on song length it may not make a good MEP though.
Anyway thanks for the feedback guys. Keep it coming, I'm definately getting a clearer idea of how this would need to work and what ground rules would be needed to be successful. Also of note, if someone wants to take this idea and go start their own MEP then feel free. If it's up to me to head this idea then it'll be quite awhile before it starts, assuming I end up doing it at all.