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The Iron Sky -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Iron Sky.  New shots needed, here are some guidelinesI spent a long time going through all the unpublished shots posted so far, and have redone seven of them as reworded shots. So, as far as I'm concerned, the old shots have now been dealt with. That means we need new shots... :) Here are some guidelines that would make a shot easier to use in an article: -If you don't want to write a whole article, just write the idea and I'll try to build an article around it. -Think about what the future might be like, and what would be funny to see happen. Don't focus on Iron Sky itself, future jokes are more important. -Keep it short and to the point, the more you focus on the joke the funnier it will be. -Try to have just one joke per shot. Satire usually works best when you have everything serious and realistic except one thing, which is the joke itself. -Try to avoid jokes about the Nazis. Most of the shots were connected to the Nazis in some way, it gets boring if we focus so much on one topic. -Try to avoid doing backstory. There were a lot of shots trying to anticipate the plot of Iron Sky, and again, it gets boring when there are too many jokes about the same topic. -Don't worry if your english language skills aren't great, it's the ideas that matter. I can tidy english up, don't worry about it. ...hope this helps, and let me know what you think of the reworded shots I posted. Honest feedback is what makes WAM work. :) |
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Seppo, there's nothing wrong with Pahkasika. ;) But yeah, it is a different style to the Onion.
I suppose I'm also trying to keep everything in a consistent style, which is what I hope the guidelines help with.
And there should be one more guideline: english language skills don't matter, as long as the central joke is good. I can tidy up english, it's the ideas that matter in shots.
I got to admit I have not read Onion, so I can not judge the style. Finnish humour magazine "Pahkasika" was in my mind, I'm on that generation that grew up with the early copies of that paper.
But good to have an editor here, checking the quality of the stuff and the grammar issues, that we who have "nonnative english skills" have.
"This goes according to the rules you mentioned, and it is good one (published on paper version already): http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1409 "
Yup, that is brilliant, the only reason I didn't mention it was because like you say it had already been used. :)
" http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1388 "
Well... that just seems more like a comedic short story rather than a satirical article. I know about the Titor stuff that went round the internet, but this doesn't seem to be making fun of it.
The Truth Today is meant to be something like the Onion, and I don't really see anything in the Onion that resembles that kind of short story.
It's okay to do longer shots, but the content should be a joke and riffs on that joke.
If we were doing a collection of funny short stories, that would be a totally different situation. :)
This goes according to the rules you mentioned, and it is good one (published on paper version already): http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1409
I liked this one too: http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1388
though it has it's focus on Cannes. But the story is nice.
And this kind of stuff is also nice to read:
http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1256
http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/1195
Short and striking ones are also nice every time, but the longer ones tickle more my imagination, I like to read stories, not just short jokes.
Seppo, could you give an example of a longer shot which you liked?
is the web -format affecting this kind of guidelines? I mean, I have had good times to read those longer stories with quite unpredictable red herrings. And in a tabloid format paper those longer shots look cool.
I like those jokes and satires to have several layers and out of the box thinking too.
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