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Shots Indie Production Company supportHI I have just joined. I have a few productions on my slate. I have links to co-producers and the BBC in the UK. I need a website for my company UNITED SPIRITS FILMS that mentions all the slate, mission etc. Can I ask for help from a web and VFX designer to build that site? How would I do it as it is not a "Production" as such? My aim would be to employ people who had helped for free at the beginning when works gets picked up for production. Thanks in advance Martin CommentsWelcome on my behalf as well! I think Sami captured nicely how you could go about creating your site in collaboration with people on here. Right now we only have individual people and productions on here, we don't have a concept of a production company, but maybe we should look into that. Our thinking is very much about providing the productions on Wreckamovie with pretty much all the collaboration tools and services that we can. The idea is that you should be able to focus on getting the job done rather than focus on building out new websites and such. One way for you to highlight what your company is doing would be by creating the various productions on here with custom layouts like: http://snowblind.wreckamovie.com
these can be customized quite a bit to match your branding needs. Also, you could then just simply link to the sites here on Wreckamovie from your own site. And of course we are always listening and trying to incorporate whatever else you might need, we are trying to make Wreckamovie better for each release we do. Welcome to WreckaMovie, Good to see another Martin around these parts! Thanks Sami Appreciate your help and tips etc. Kind regards Martin Thanks Sami Appreciate your help and tips etc. Kind regards Martin And don't forget to join the productions that look nice to you. Welcome. Iron sky : operation Highjump (a computer game) uses production type : "Other". Just create a production, use synopsis as a description of the web pages overall. Use "Task" to create different sub jobs. 2d, music, PHP-code and such. I found out that it is easier to find help for a specific task than "can you do my page". You might find, but it's easier that way. You can use the news - section as a blog. Just remember to open a task "general discussion", because there is no forum-commenting here. Just hard work :) (you can comment the tasks, shots, news, announcements and the media you upload, but comments are is related to the main theme.) Feel free to ask, this takes a while to get used to. You can attach media to tasks their shots and their comments. So you can download everything, make modifications and upload it again as your shot, so remember to check that you have the rights to publish the media, when you publish. sami  How to delete a taskIs there a way to delete a task completely? We need to rethink it and don't want to confuse people by having it up twice. CommentsAs David says, just close the task. Reason you can't easily delete stuff here on Wreckamovie is that in most cases that would delete the work of lots of other people as well. Hope that works for you. No, you can't. But you can close it, release an announcement about why, and start a new one. CommentsThierry, that's exactly the way we have planned to implement it, just have not had the time. It will be done eventually, but some other, more important things first. Maybe you should be able to delete a production as long as no one has written a shot or a comment.
OK, I've changed the title of one accidentaly created project as you described. It's intentional. The reason is that we want to make sure we don't run into a situation in which somebody deletes a production and all the work of others is gone. For accidentally created productions, just rename "To be deleted" and let us know and we'll get rid of it.  CommentsGo into MyWreck and My Profile. Click on Edit Profile and then Account. It's right there, not that easy to find, have to admit. Restricted area for every movie?Could you make a "safe" area only for production members and/or an area only for inivted people where we can discuss about a movie without leaking it to google, other people who were not involved etc. ?
it would be great ;) thx Commentsmy intetntion is not making as much money as possible with the movie sooner get as much people as possible to see the movie and i want to make advertising and pr as much interesting as possible i really want to hype this movie , and if everyone could read the story in parts and sees a transparent production , i think a lot of hype is going to disappear from their minds.
oh i´ve just found that group feature, thanks for your help! im really sorry i wouldn´t ask if i had know that. As Thierry said, that's what groups are for, but not many people seem to have noticed the groups feature. If you add certain members of your production to a group within that production, then only they can see what you display to that group. "if everyone would knew the whole story at the outset" Well... The lord of the ring movies, The Harry Potter movies, any movie based on a book, seems to sell well enough anyway. And really, the smart ones are going to wait for the reviews anyway... Then there is the truth that the film companies find very inconvenient, illegal downloading of movies increases sales. (They are more scared of the legal downloading. They just want to make people scared of downloading in general, so people don't notice things like Energia who struck it big with Star Wreck by offering it for free on the net.) The only reason to keep things under wraps is if the movie sucks, so you can get as many people as possible to see it before the reviews start trickling out... That's for what group are.... A new term for wreckersWreckutation = A wreckers Reputation based on "Karma", contribution level and the amount of material accepted in productions, maybe include the time as a member. There are several possible ways to display the wreckutation of a member. Numerical scale 0-10 of 0-100 ----- Kinda boring Wrecker ranking - Sledge Hammer (beginner); Jack Hammer (progressing neophyte, corporal); Wrecking Ball (non com, sergeant ); Bomber (experienced,Lieutenant); Demolition Man/Girl; Earthquaker, Volcanic, etc.
CommentsWreckage is good, I'd go for that. How about calling it "Caused Wreckage" or simply just "Wreckage"? I'd like some kind of better wrecker ranking (i'm way overranked at the moment!), though the karma system is working pretty fine. I've suggested some kind of military rank kind of rankings before. Love the humor there, Stan, but you have to be careful not to take it too unprofessional: The beauty of this site is to make us amateurs feel pros. We'll think about this. For now we'll have to get by with just karma, but this might evolve going forward. It's good, but maybe a bit too easily confused with "wreckupation"?  How aboutI was just wondering, is wreck a MOVIE strictly limited to audiovisual art/stuff or could one use it also, say, making a book or a song? If not, we do need Wreck a Book and Wreck a Song too... CommentsThanks for the answers! You can use Wreckamovie for other creative collaborative projects as well. There are already some books, games etc being made. Some people use it for other stuff also, someone is actually doing a book here.  Linking to imagesI wanted to link to an image, with a clickable link. Instead the full image showed up. Is there any way to turn of the auto hotlinking? CommentsRight now there's no way to turn it off, sorry. Will make that possible as an option in upcoming releases. WAM in Wikipedia?"If it's not in Wikipedia, it doesn't exist" ...Old Jungle Saying Simple question: Why in the world is there no Wreck-A-Movie entry in Wikipedia? I'd imagine there would be plenty of wikipedia contributors amongst the WAM community. And it doesn't give a good image of the site if there is not even a stub about it. Maybe you should set up a task about this... CommentsI'll add a separate task for translating the WAM entry in Wikipedia. Ei kestä. I'll do it en Français first and I'll see what I can do for the Deutsch part. Go for it Delphine! Kiitos! It would be great to have it in French and German, since Iron Sky and WAM will soon get a lot of attention in those countries. I would do it in Spanish, but my grammar is "fatal".. Just remain loyal to the original text and copy the references. It can't be too hard;) What do you guys think - should/could we make a new task "translate the WAM entry in wikipedia"? I am still looking for a job and I am stuck at home at the moment so I can translate it into French. I might also start the German version if no one wants to do it and I can ask someone to check it afterwards. I have never written anything on Wikipedia before but it is probably not that much complicated and since I am not that much stupid, I should survive... Again, great props for Timo and all others for making this happen! It only took a couple of days from my original posting to get it online - collaboration at it's finest. Somebody at Star Wreck Studios, please send Timo the logo image so it can be perfected. And people with native-level language skills, get to work translating it to other languages! Yes, well done Timo. Thumbs up again! Great job! Redirected from 'WAM' and 'Wreck-A-Movie' on both English and Finnish Wikipedias. The case of letters doesn't matter. Seppo: There could be a list of notable finished movies added to the article once there will be several, or a separate article for the list could be opened to keep the article concise. Now Iron Sky and Sauna are mentioned in text at the end. (+ SW:ItP else in history.) Jani: 'Wrecking' is not in general use but here, and it's secondary information. Same applies to 'Raven's nest'. Adding them would mostly just lengthen the text, although they'd otherwise be just fine. I added keywords and links to 'crowdsourcing' , 'work'net' and a few others, but 'audience 2.0' was unknown to Wikipedia, so I dropped it. (Perhaps you could write an article of it yourself, and then link it to WAM?) Creative Commons licensed material is commonly being used here, but as far as I've understood from the Guidelines and EULA, all material here is free for sharing, unless otherwise agreed. (I think that's way too unclearly said in the terms and should be clarified!) With all sorts of licensing possible here, pointing to Creative Commons is difficult. Need to add those awards and links from elsewhere later once I'll have time. Kris, that movie is great, but I cannot add it, because it's to much of a promo. I would rather link to it from THIS site. Another thing you might want to link to perhaps? Big hand to Timo-Heikki! Great job in both languages! I think it is well-written, error-free and concise. Some things I think could be added to the article: - If you search Wreck A Movie or Wreck-A-Movie, it doesn't find the proper page. Is there a way "help" the search engine by keywords or something like that? - Awards that WAM has won or is nominated for. Here are some of the most recent: http://tinyurl.com/yfj4tpb, http://blog.starwreck.com/2008/10/08/wreckamovie-won-the-mindtrek-award/ , http://www.digibusiness.fi/portal/34/?id=24950 - A mention that participating on the site has been coined "wrecking" (source: WAM FAQ). - Other relevant terms: "crowdsourcing" http://tinyurl.com/yg3jg2f , "audience 2.0" http://tinyurl.com/y8snvl - In the days prior to it's release WAM was called the Raven's Nest (Korpinpesä). http://tinyurl.com/yfmmvzr . Maybe you should also mention the Star Wreck forums and their IRC channel as it's predecessor. - Links to Creative Commons licensing, Energia productions and maybe to some other relevant collaborative movie productions. - Links TO Wreckmovie wiki FROM Star Wreck and other relevant entries I just read through your text Timo-Heikki. Looks good to me. It could be nice in the future to update the wikipedia page every time there is a finished production to be announced. Just to show that WAM is a productive process in social web Also available in Finnish now.... http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckamovie It would be good, if some people bothered to proof read the texts. And translating further into other languages isn't that difficult now, just click 'Edit this page' and change all common text. So, volunteers needed... (I could try Swedish or German, but I'd rather leave it to natives to avoid errors.) Changed. All it needs now, is a nice small Wreckamovie logo for picture. No capitals, just Wreckamovie. We decided to use just that spelling in the summer, but there's still some old versions around (like on Facebook where one can't change the name of a fan page after it's been defined). When I did the "What is wreckamovie" videos I was told to correct it to "Wreckamovie" because I'd used a different spelling in the first video. And that's also the spelling at the top of the page in the browser's title bar so I think it definitely is the official one. I don't care myself :) , but some people might care and if it has to be done... So... No Capitals in between? It doesn't really matter in searches, but it's a matter of uniformity. Leaving them off simplifies the looks, of course. But it also makes it look a bit more dull. I think I'll wait for a reply from the 'Big' Timo... He's the boss here afterall. :) Timo, it's very good! :) The only thing you'd really need to change is the name, like you say. I think the rest is fine as far as I can tell, and of course it can be edited if there is anything unsuitable found. If the name is going to change it's best to do it now while the page is still fresh. Awwww... Dang! I typed it WreckAMovie... Gotta delete it now I just got it made? ;) Take a look first, at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WreckAMovie Yes, the spelling is Wreckamovie nowadays. Timo, I was told the official spelling is now "Wreckamovie". "Yup, I know the rules." Sorry! :) Yup, I know the rules. I took quite some time to make clear what I can write. And hunting for suitable references was a pain in the *ss. Now, I have a problem with the exact title. I've written a draft using 'WreckAMovie'. But actually I see in more places 'WreckAMovie.com' or 'www.wreckamovie.com' or even 'Wreck-A-Movie'. And I should pick which form to use as the actual title. Which do you think is best? Or 'official'...? Also don't hype it at all, just say very neutrally what it does and why it is notable (it's by the producers of Star Wreck and Iron Sky). I think maybe it should be as brief as possible. The one thing we don't want is anyone thinking this is an advert. Working on it... Give it a try, Timo. Remember the minimalist wiki-text style and the use of proper outside sources. If you get some stub together, I can also try to get some text done during the weekend. Go for it Timo! :) I might do it. I'm pretty well aware of the stuff in here, but I'm not part of Energia nor staff here, although I've been very active else. I'm not exactly expert on Wikipedia, but I've written this and that in there. Let's see more about it tomorrow. Both....actually someone could write the text..and some else less involved could post it... Thierry, do you mean too busy to do it, or are you worried about "conflict of interest" problems? I have some wiki expirience, but I think I'm too much involved here. I think that might be best because the last thing we want is WAM getting a bad name there. I have zero experience there. Let's wait a bit, and see if someone with wikiexperience shows up. I'm not a Wikipedia veteran, I've corrected a spelling mistake here and there but not much beyond that. Jani, are you experienced with editing Wikipedia? Why don't you two (Jani and Kris) take the lead and create a Wikipedia entry for Wreckamovie? As Kris says we can't really do that ourselves if we are to comply with the rules of Wikipedia. It would have to be someone who isn't a member of staff on WAM or Energia, to comply with Wikipedia's rules on conflicts of interest. The best person would be, like Jani says, someone who is already a regular contributor so that people can see they're not just part of some PR company. |
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Nice to meet you too!
Besides the follow-us version of our logo (which we don't have yet, will have to get it done) you should look at the custom pages that we have created for some of the productions:
http://norwegianninja.wreckamovie.com
http://snowblind.wreckamovie.com
http://operabyyou.wreckamovie.com
to name a few.
We could create something similar for you guys.
The idea is that you can get by with just the custom Wreckamovie page, there shouldn't be much need for a separate site (unless you absolutely want one and have the time and energy to keep it alive)
We'll get busy creating some more logos, it's long overdue anyway.
Hi guys, nice to meet you! Such a great idea and page you've created.
I'm a newcomer here, working for our ambitious project "Dr. Professor's Thesis of Evil", as the marketing executive. Currently, we are building up our site and would want to promote our Wreck page too. So what we would need, is a small, minimalistic-style logo (I don't know if there's a right term for that). I see there is one on the Iron Sky site - on every page there are the small logo links to social media pages, preceded with the text "Follow us on:".
Would you have it here somewhere by any chance / if not, could you upload it too?
Please check out Dr. Professor's Thesis of Evil links and stay tuned for more :)
http://www.wreckamovie.com/drprofessorsthesisofevil
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Professors-Thesis-of-Evil/133086886711876
http://www.thesisofevil.com/ [site coming soon]
Thanks!
Added the PSD file as well. Have fun!
Peter, PSD-files should be working now.
Just what I need for my movies...
seems like we currently have problems uploading PSD files, will upload that asap as well once it's fixed.
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