Talk:Video for Ray
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Ideas
I think it would be nice to use a "ray of sunshine" motif.
Does anyone with leet drawing skillz want to take charge of storyboarding?
Images of work
-- With the lack of an image likeness of the artist, we are hard pressed for visual content. What does the music conjure up in your mind? I see cubical and office, repetitive cubes rendered in 3D (easy to model) that compliments the repetitive beats of the house/dance music.
Ray's very bluesy vocals reminds me of soulful songs of the south about slavery, which juxtaposed with modern office work could be the plot of the video. The whole "bad day at work" theme with an overlord boss, rising up and 'whip somebody’s a$$' and sending me home.
I see a lot of motion graphics, using after effects to fill in the cubicles or images of office settings. Here is an example of what I am picturing http://accad.osu.edu/~kgecsi/movies/yellow.html ---
how about people upload short video clips of themselves singing 10 sec. or so of the tune...this can be the base on top of which other stuff is laid down. or maybe dancing? would be cool to have a simple idea that everyone can do and string together.
We could take photos of ourselves at work. If each SR had a series of photos of themselves in various stages of clapping (hands together, hands a foot apart, etc.) we could put them in a grid and use a slideshow to "animate" them clapping together to the hand-claps in the song.
In the slow middle section, have a shot of a female cubicle working having a bad day, head in hands, looking like she's going to cry. Then when the tempo picks up, she gets herself together and starts to dance.
Or we could have (an animated version of) Ray stand up on his desk and sing, and once it gets to the slow part his colleagues stand up and start clapping with him, solemnly. Then once it starts speeding up the could start dancing. (Maybe with a furious manager in the background?)
Fabulosos! We must leverage our happily dressed legion of vaccuum cleaners to tell Ray's story. Can they be animated? Can they be made to sing? And dance? Yes they can!
Sports Racers film 10 second clips of themselves at their crappy jobs. Everyone wears the same "Hello my name is:" stickers (like the ones we get at the AA meetings) with Ray's Daughter written in.
I like this idea so much I added images of "Hi my name is:" badges (with and without "Ray" written in) to the whipass gallery http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/v/whip+somebody_%2339_s+ass/
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I think the idea of using images of Sports Racers at work is a very cool idea... maybe? -adam
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Since the goal is to find Ray, it might be good to think of this as a viral campaign with some allusions to "Where's Ray" and pointers back to his present here on ZeFrank's site. It might make sense to use a shorter version of the mix so more office workers can get away with watching the whole thing.
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--- Just a thought - if we're doing scenes in the office, perhaps one shot should be the frustrated person opening up a drawer with a whip inside. Another possible image: darts at the boss's picture... ---
--- I really like the idea of sort of random clips that comprise the video. (The elaborate plot-driven ones are nice too, and a great vision, but would be hard to pull together and this way more ppl can contribute.)
I love #3 in the 'artcle' section, with the paper bag puppet (or sock puppet), and i double LOVE the idea of sports racers sending video of them at work- either dancing (the bigger the better; on tables, with the whole rest of your office..), or pulling pranks on your boss, and more vicious stuff like the previously suggested whip and darts and other forms of beating them up.
and just for a change of pace, at one of two of the fast paced parts we could put in a few seconds of pictures flashing with the beat uber quickly, in any number of possible combinations, but randomly sneaking in funny ones.
you guys are creative! i'm sure once we get a bunch of video clips together we can mix them into one fabuloso video. <3 Sandy 19:08, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
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I like the idea of sportsracers sending in little clips of bad things happenning to them at work...little office misshaps and snafus, people stealing their sandwhiches...
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As I listened, I imagined a cubicle office. Workers are seated at their startions doing their normal office tasks. But our hero (Ray himself?) is seated in his cublcle with a number of leather strips and leather work tools. As he sings calmly and soulfully, we realize that he is carefully and deliberately crafting a not-unbeautiful whip of the Indiana Jones variety. -- zoomsoon 9:16pm PDT 9/24/06
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The making-a-whip idea is interesting, but what does he do with it after he's done making it?
Real Sports Racers? Slide Show? Images? Animation?
How are we going to do this?
Should we get a group of SR's who are close togeather and see if they want to act?
How are we going to edit?
Should we try and get a server of some sort?
Will we designate one editor?
What's allowed?
What's not?
- When is someone who is at least moderatly internet savy simply going to create a Sports Racer chat room and send us all the link? I feel it would not only make Wiki things like this easier, but it will also give us all a place to BS while we're waiting for the Show.
-adam
Are we going to work on the assumption that we're not adding any audio?
- Overdubs, mixes and audio edits are all possible, depending on need. Goose, you out there? muyfabulosotalk 13:43, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
This is going to be very difficult without a dedicated chat room, even before this enters any kind of productive stage. I think Skype will also prove useful once we have material to organize. -kevin, snoogans775@gmail.com
Ideas
Let's try and get as many people to shoot video as possible. Raw content. That way lots of people can contribute. Then we can have a couple people who know how to do editing try some different variations. We can vote on direction, figure out what material is needed, etc., then. And obviously there needs to be at least one cameo of a Canadian Goose. muyfabulosotalk 13:43, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
1.1 How about having people submit video of their power moves on the job. These could then be edited together for a funky montage for one of the sections.
Seems to me we should be mixing the sights to go with the remixed sounds. So everybody come up with 2 minutes of interesting footage (including on the job power moves and Canadian geese) and post it in the gallery in a quicktime movie. Then we can all come up with our own mix of that material. Editing video is even easier than remixing audio. Look what so many people amazed us with aurally over the past few days. I vote we have Ze make a gallery for our individual 2 minute clips, then all the closet Coppolas out there can ingest and regurgitate it. Then we'll have our video equivalent of Goose. Also, I vote that we heretofore refer to all video as "footy."
aye, footy is good
1.2 A very simple idea that I had while watching the iTunes visualization and playing Goose's extended remix. Why not have it sort of like the old music videos from the late 80's/early 90's where they had people dancing in front of crazy wild backgrounds. Now that would be cool...but not very deep.
1.3 As I listened, I imagined a cubicle office. Workers are seated at their startions doing their normal office tasks. But our hero (Ray himself?) is seated in his cublcle with a number of leather strips and leather work tools. As he sings calmly and soulfully, we realize that he is crafting a not-unbeautiful whip of the Indiana Jones variety. -- zoomsoon 9:16pm PDT 9/24/06
Roll Call
Who out there can:
1) make animations 2) edit video 3) ???
I think that after deciding wether it is going to be an animation or a video, option which i vote for, we should do the script and then worry about the other stuff. --asCii 13:41, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
- i can edit video, and i have pro equipment to do it on. -- Portable Possibility
crisb here: I am going to see an old guy that sings blues is called Ray.. there's a tiny chance he might be the real Ray. .I'll let you know.. However, if he isn't I'm gonna ask him is he would mind being filmed.. I have a HD camera and a steady-cam etc. I work at a studio also, so I can probably get other stuff done too.. wish me luck ! :)
I can edit video... I am a video/photo journalist. - Also, as I said in the forums, I live st.louis, so if we have found the real Ray, I can get some shots of him. - Jackie nopeashear@hotmail.com
My idea
(moved here from front page)
I skipped everyone else's ideas for this, so sorry if there's overlap. Since there's no Ray or no idea what he looks like, and since the song is for ALL people in the workplace, my concept is to have the first part of the video (before the guitar bridge thing) be various workplace related vignettes where the stereotypical boss and coworkers are being dicks etc, but with no actor for the tortured worker - the antagonists are antagonizing empty space, but empty space which is filmed (or drawn) as if there were a subject in it. Just as the music dies down for the guitar bridge, an ever-quickening series of edits between the various scenes comes to a crescendo and then cuts to something very calm and pastoral (not necessarily literally pastoral, just in mood), then as the percussion returns, intercut the work settings again for a split second during the snare hits. When the song proper starts again, the workplaces start spontaneously destroying themselves, as if the invisible protagonists from before were going postal. If filming all these scenes is prohibitively expensive or work-intensive, use old silent movie era stock footage of various laborers and strikers etc.
Another twist on the concept would be to start with these empty work stations, then during the bridge, all the people start materializing into the scenes, looking at their bodies, sort of in wonder about becoming physically solid. When the music starts up again, they all walk off the jobs and onto the street, where they might possibly meet up for the final half-minute of the song (Times Square might look cool). Unigolyn 21:00, 24 September 2006 (PDT)
Stanley's Violent Prophecy
I can't help but picture Stanley from the NBC show "The Office" singing this song at his desk at Dunder Mifflin.