News

I have to suggestiosn for writing News.

1) Add a comments section on the News, as well. Now I've had to add a new Task where people are asked to comment on the news, which seems unnecessarily clumsy.

2) Give us some formatting tools for the News. (Maybe for Tasks and Shots, as well.) Bold and Italics would help at least my project, since I frequently post quotations from a book that uses both.

Polls

I don't know whether this has already been proposed in the past, but I was thinking that a poll feature would definitely add some great opportunities for production leaders to quickly find out how their members feel and think about certain matters. So in short: we should be able to create polls.

Commenting productions

Sometimes when you see a production which is interesting it would be nice to give a general comments and feedback for the production. Now it seems that most of the productions have very specific tasks and it is kind of stupid to throw general questions and stuff there.

One way would be to add a general discussion task to every production by default like Iron Sky have general ideas task.

Activating People

It is very important that we can get people activated. But for each film, It is impossible for us to do it for them. The leaders need some easy ways or at least some advice on how to promote activity on their film. The basic idea is:

1) Turn activity into an easy game that can be used by all production leaders
2) Provide an App that can be put on facebook that drives the game (perhaps based on specific tasks) viral. After all the best people to help you with a film is your friends. (Wreck My Movie- The game)

I am sure there are lots of other ideas people have but this is the one I think is needed. Simple idea. Get people who know you active.

Sorting for the people page

Hi,
how about a feature enabling the sorting of the people page http://www.wreckamovie.com/users

If the page could be sorted according to name location and different wreckupations, finding suitable people to your production could be easier. Inside productions there is already a sorting possibility for the member list, which is good. Maybe the location could also be sorted by using either country or city.

Flagged items - why?

When flagging an inappropriate item, there should be a notes field to enter what exactly seems/is wrong with it, so to make the moderator/administrator's job easier.

Distributed Rendering

Has this been looked into at all?
You all know seti@home - and some know folding@home - but fewer know there's an entire network and software dedicated for sharing idle machines for a common project.
Like asteroid trajectories, cancer research or chess moves - so why not film production?
After cancer and total annihilation of mankind, isn't culture the next Important Thing? ;)
There's always need for more rendering power.
But not "always".
In a production there's sometimes a time when your render machine/farm is standing idle.
So I suggest a share-based system.. you let others render while your machine is idle, and render yourself when you need it - rendering priority within the cloud set according to user render-share ratio.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Ranking of productions by phase

Once WAM will be opened, there will be productions listed in all possible phases of production: initial ideas, developing ideas, script writing, production planning, financing, casting, shooting, post-production, complete...

There should be some ranking and/or indicators of the actual phase each production is in, so one could easily get an overview of what to expect of each project. Then all projects could be browsed by category and one could more easily select productions fitting one's interests and skills. One general rank of "phase" should do most often, but perhaps there should also be additional indicators for more detailed status information, as all projects don't follow the same path of advance, (Say, some project may have finance very early; some may have fixed cast early or no casting required at all; some have free studio or otherwise certain shooting place/equipment etc.)

This ranking should be based on the actual phase of production. As the producer and the director are the ones responsible for fulfilling all phases, updating the "production phase" indicator should be up to them.

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Also, it should be possible to categorize productions in different phases at the front page, because there will most likely be tons of "idea" phase productions in comparison to those in late phases, and the more serious ones will soon be drowned by the many "ideas", unless this is possible.

Digg a Shot

I'd like to see the ability to "digg" (vote for) shots that you like, like on digg.com. In some of the Iron Sky tasks, there are pages, and pages of shots. Allowing users to sort by most popular would bring the cream quickly to the surface.

Online Casting

I'm currently Casting for 'Untitled Dystopia', shifting through the 90 or so emails in my inbox and it would be quite useful to be able to have a platform where I could show members of the production the head shots and showreels to get their input.

saying that however, It does seem like the sort of thing that should only be done behind closed doors, of course you wouldnt want you dicussion to get back to any of the actors.

discuss?