The "Elements and Main Concepts" page is almost ready. I'll have it online tomorrow. Thanks for the patience.

Awesome. Thank you @Vitaliy_Kiselev

IF someone else could learn how this plugin works, that would be fabulous. I have no time this week.

@atticusd thanks for working on this. Has anyone looked into polling plugins for direct wiki use?

@atticusd A couple days would be fine, I think. If you do it live on a new wiki page, several people could chip in and work on it, and the authors would also be able to make changes on their own of need be. Many hands make light work, but someone needs to take the wheel. Thanks for stepping up.

yes, there will be a poll on how to handle each stage. this last one is just a poll for getting us to the next stage. We need need ideas for

a) what to do (if anything) in this round about main concepts
b) what to do in stage 2
c) how to poll and move to stage three

IMOPRTANT: THE LATEST POLL IS APPROVED AS OFFICIAL BY VOTE. I WILL CLOSE IT TOMORROW. it is looking like we will be Rating (scale of 1-10) the script "elements", and approving (for use in the next stage) the top ranked 40-50%. We NEED someone to duplicate the "story lines and concepts" page, with the content reorganized in categories of "elements" and "main concepts". Seriously, can someone step up and tackle this?

@Elenion, in the future ALL voting will be nominal. I simply did not want to start this stage of polling all over a third time just to include that. If you wish to look at the results, there are instructions on how to do so on the Poll page of the wiki. @thepalalias in a public polling situation, I would certainly use y/n questions, under your same logic. But this is a small group of people who I'd hope are more concerned with detailed feedback than how fast they can get thru the poll. If you were looking at the first poll, that was a bad first attempt. The way things are, the majority want to use a 1-10 rating system, so that's what we will go with.

To be democratic, I think I will whip up another poll concerning what to do with the main script concepts. It may be that we will not deal with them until the next stage, but there may be ways to handle them in some capacity at this time as well. Any suggestions for me to put on a pole on this subject?

Not that I'm attached to it (things should go fine either way), but I thought I'd throw this out there now that I've voted.

The data gathered from "yea" or "nay" surveys may be less detailed than that from a 0 to 10 rating scale, but the surveys take much less time and effort for people to complete and participation rates are traditionally higher. When I used survey rates for research purposes in the past, I found some people were actually anxious about even completing surveys once they got beyond a certain degree of complexity.

But I know we don't need a 100% participation to make the surveys work, so I just mention it in case anyone wants to make things easier. The results should be just as good either way. :)

I don't see how it's possible to say at this point what percentage will be taken or removed.

But i took the survey, because i want everything to be judged on a scale from 0 to 10.

Guys the next step is simply to decide the days we're going to vote.

Then we'll close all the enrollment for the project and protect the wiki page in some way.
Who doesn't vote in those days i think that should be out, who doesn't ask to be in with a proper and explicit proposition and some form of contribution can't be in. We've to be clear.
When everything will be clarified and the team confirmed we'll create departments and supervisors by voting.

In the deadlines page on wiki there is a suggestion 20-25 december. Please everyone who partecipate confirm or suggest another day by editing the page.
I think that we should decide in one week maximum.
Like 9 of december?

@johnnym - The title is "How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies" by Rob Tobin only 90 pages. Short and to the point. I really like this book.

Can't we do something with the fact we're all in different locations?

A while ago there was some kind of wave of films that showed the interweaving of people's lives in different locations. Magnolia, Babel, .. Or if you want one character in different locations, like say Bourne films, you could shoot that character and cut with footage from users in other locations, possibly using chroma if needed.

Just thinking out loud here.


@Kong - Is that from Robert McKee's book?

@B3Guy

Check poll plugins, good one exist for DocuWiki, I just don't know why they don't work upon install.

@B3Guy, well said.. I won't have much time until the later part of next week, so if someone else can do it before that - I'm all for it.

Quick question though, if I have missed it or not - is there any way to have a look at the poll results so far? Maybe not recommended for those who are about to take it, but.. ;) for those who have done it.