ProjeKct Life

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:11 pm

Songbird21 wrote:I'm sorry everyone. I'm releasing my segment. PenPen hasn't posted in over a month. I think this project is dead. Of course, if it ever comes back to life, then PenPen can put my segment in. Good luck everyone.

more than half the project I beelive is already edited, so I wouldn;t give up on it yet. If anything, someone can take over if pen-pen doesn;t show up. I havn;t edited my part for a while now, but thats because I;ve moved other stuff ahead of it since so this doesn;t look like it'll be done anytime soon. I can finish up my part in probably a week of serious editing (or less) once I see a finishline is clear.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:12 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:I can finish up my part in probably a week of serious editing (or less) once I see a finishline is clear.

Any chance you could take over?

Coffee 54 · Post by **Coffee 54** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:24 pm

New Beta:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 2C516B6F74

It's actually two videos, both use Planetes. The first is a lesson in perseverence, not giving up even in the face of failure. The second which starts at about the 0:57 mark goes with the old addage, 'Sometimes you just need a smoke.' Any input would be apprieciated.

Oh, and if any of you guys with servers are still willing to host betas so I don't have to use Yousendit anymore, that'd be great too.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:21 am

Songbird21 wrote:Alright. I'll tell ya what. I'll postpone releasing my segment for another 2 weeks. If PenPen shows up before that point I'll wait for the project (If it's still happening) to be completed.

Ditto. This project doesn't start moving two saturdays from now and my section is going up as an individual vid.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:41 pm

Alright, I think you guys are rushing to bury the project - give it more time; I can't say I've lost the interest, just that I'm kind of in limbo.

To be honest, I lost my first track in my HD crash recently, but I'm not despairing much since I'm planning to re-do/expand it anyway. However, I don't think I'll be able to get to it soon for a few good reasons; I've heard the same from Jasper, who also maintains a similar level of interest in the project.

We need Pen-Pen here, though, that's for sure.

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Re: Coffee's track(s) -

That's actually rather awesome. On first look, looks like exactly the kind of variety we need, I especially like the focus away from action as such and into... dare I say a kind of non-shameless practical humor?

Anyway, on first look I'm pretty impressed. I'll reserve a possibility of timing nitpicks - tell me if you want me to look/pick at anything specific in there.

I'll say that all your tracks so far are great variations on the "Life" theme in all sorts of cool and not-overly-obvious ways.

Coffee 54 · Post by **Coffee 54** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:41 am

Otohiko wrote:Re: Coffee's track(s) -

That's actually rather awesome. On first look, looks like exactly the kind of variety we need, I especially like the focus away from action as such and into... dare I say a kind of non-shameless practical humor?

Anyway, on first look I'm pretty impressed. I'll reserve a possibility of timing nitpicks - tell me if you want me to look/pick at anything specific in there.

I'll say that all your tracks so far are great variations on the "Life" theme in all sorts of cool and not-overly-obvious ways.

Please do, a few nitpicks are always good. Just don't expect me to get to them 'til next week at least. I'm working for some slave driver's telegraph project or whatever. But once I'm done with that lameo's stuff, I'll have the time.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:21 pm

Don't make me get the whip out.

I mean him.

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Jasper had quite a few things, both broad and specific it seems, to pick on in your track. Since I don't want to speak on her behalf, I hope we can get her to post here with these eventually.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:34 pm

I don't think we realy need a project coordinator present in order for us who know what we are doing with our tracks to finish our tracks. Once everything is finished, if Pen-pen isn;t around to give the final OK on things and put it all togfether, given a reasonable amount of time for him to show up, then we could always just put the thing together outrselves and release it.

We can work as a team without the leader present as far as editing goes.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:45 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:We can work as a team without the leader present as far as editing goes.

While this is theoretically true, in practice I wouldn't want to attempt it, especially with with a project that is already chronically progress challenged.

People need to be poked and prodded sometimes and I will readily admit that Jasper is better at it than I am. However I have organized and made decisions as best as I could and when the segments are complete I will compile them into an aesthetically pleasing whole.

Also note that unlike more popular projects I can not set a hard and fast deadline and count on reams of volunteers to get the work done one way or another. We have very few editors on this project and therefore must accept their limitations as far as production speed is concerned (although encouragement always helps.)

Even so I am considering setting a preliminary deadline around the end of summer for all the individual segments. I am going to talk with people separately and try to get an idea of the necessary progress to see what will be feasible.

Finally, to all the people with completed segments, I realize that you are anxious about the release but I would urge you to refocus your energies. Start a new project and before long this will not seem so time sensitive. Not that I don't want to finish this project as quickly as possible, but you all have good enough portfolios that you don't need to need to show your segments to the world so they will see how good of an editor you are.

Anyways, I'm beginning to ramble, tomorrow I'll have more specific information.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:31 am

pen-pen2002 wrote:
Bakadeshi wrote:We can work as a team without the leader present as far as editing goes.
Stuuffs

Hes alive! Thats all most of us wanted to know actually ;p
That your still going with this project. That post was not ment in any way to say we don;t need you as a leader, I was simlply stating that the rest of us don;t need to wait around for you to appear to do our part, as some of us may conviniently be using the absence of you as an excuse to not work on our segments, maybe for fear that the work will be in vein.