props for mentioning Henry V. The game's afoot!

I'll wait for @lolo to voice thoughts on all this before making any page changes. He's put in a lot of effort which should be respected.

yep. I'd rather limit who can vote. Your mom is probably not going to bother to sabotage our polling, but I can understand that you'd be rather wary of your cat. Perhaps in the future, I will PM the link to the poll rather than posting it up for all to see. As far as connecting each name openly to the results, I can do that easily enough by providing a comment box as the first question. Anyone wishing to see who voted for what is more than welcome to log on and look at the choices of individual IP addresses (along with the commented username that accompanies).

Oh, and looking at the results of my second poll attempt, I'm happy to report that the results are much easier to decipher (especially the 1-10 ranking ones. Its beautiful)

Just posted my storyline proposition!
I think we should decide a votation-day just to establish a deadline.
Next monday? The more we get close to christmas time the more it'll be difficult to do something

Hi guys, I just joined this forum. I'm an aspiring screenwriter/director/dp...watever :) I see many great ideas here and on the wiki pages. Some ideas requires special effects/specialized locations/large crews and in general high budgets (which I presume we have none). So I suggest that when submitting/considering THE concept, we have to rank budget as our top requirement.

I recently read a screenwriting book that list the 7 elements of screenplays. If we can have that much in any story concept we would be in a much better situation to finalized an idea. Here are the seven elements that may help the project at this stage:

1. HERO: the main character

2: HERO's CHARACTER FLAW: flaw at the beginning of the story that hold back the hero from achieving his full potential. The hero views this as a defense mechanism to keep him/her emotionally and physically safe.

3. ENABLING CIRCUMSTANCES: situations that the hero has created/found that allow him to maintain his flaw.

4. OPPONENT: someone who opposes the hero from getting what he wants. This may/may not be a bad guy that forces the hero to abandon his flaw/enabling circumstances and instigates the LIFE CHANGING EVENT.

5. HERO's ALLY: the person that spend the most time with the hero to help him overcome his flaw.

6. LIFE CHANGING EVENT: a challenge, threat or opportunity that forces the hero to choose between his flaw and the opportunity present.

7. JEOPARDY: the ultimate price the hero has to pay to get what he wants.

@kong
I think that that list is a little naive and incomplete but still useful. However these kind considerations are more important in the phase of writing, and obviously the choosen writer should be a competent one.
Of course while voting we have to be aware of these things as much as possible.

@Vitaliy
You're definitely right, i think that to create different departments with supervisors is the first thing that we should do after choosing the concept/script.

@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.

@B3Guy

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

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?

@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.

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?

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.

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. :)