[Talk] Perfect display?????

[Terry Richards]

Michael Beal wrote:

>Why not just go with a projector?  Nearly unlimited size without the
>space hogging foot print and all for about the same money.
>
>Oh, since my point earlier about "screencasting" was missed...  My
>point was simple and plain: the very idea of creating a "screencast"
>for theatres is ludicrous. 
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i think the premise of an "open" feature film is wonderful. using 
screencasting or otherwize

from bobdaggets' post on the other list...

is there a distro that comes with a working screencast program installed 
and preconfigured?
i have this neat idea for a blockbuster feature-length movie consisting 
of nothing more than audio and screencasts of various kinds, scenes 
stitched together and recorded. then transfered to celluloid and run in 
theatres around the world. the profits going to a npo/ngo related to 
bringing computer literacy and open source to the people.
...
there is little reason that a screencast feature film centered on wikis 
and wikipedia could not be produced to introduce the genre to the 
moviegoing public. The plot could involve any number of elements, 
without visible actors, and with a soundtrack of the sound of 
collaborators typing, and perhaps speaking with voip, editing of file 
attachments and graphics and audio clips/background noises/soundtracks 
and so on. It's Only Logical that the project should be created on a 
wiki like this by a volunteer group. The goal is to make a blockbuster 
film that wins awards, rakes in tons of money for a non-profit charity, 
and all because it is exciting not just a cult folowing, but to the 
wider moviegoing public. It should be so engrossing to the general that 
a new mainstream genre is established.

In Screencast a proposal that a moviehouse film of a feature length 
screencast about a wiki that could be a smash hit was made. This is an 
evolving possibility. Sticking to first principles, the screenplay 
should be made on a wiki, and could involve Wikipedia itself. The idea 
that the film would be about its own making is tempting to users of 
recursive acronyms and technologies, but this is something too 
intimidating to the general public. Instead, standard plot elements are 
necessary, but the format should adhere to only screecasts of 
applications and web applications with audio.

The name "It's Only Logical" is just a starting point.

What is needed first is some interest from a charity that wants to host 
the project. The idea that the project itself is the movie, as above, is 
not useful from the point of view of the eventual release of the DVD 
after the theatre run. After all, DVD's usually have extras, and that is 
the logical place for the story of the making of It's Only Logical.

Next, what is needed is a competition of sorts on the screenplay 
development wiki to create a variety of plots and scripts, to select the 
best one(s).

Once the best script has been selected, edited and refined, one would 
need to make a final cut and submit it to a company willing to roll it 
out on celluloid and distribute it to the theatres, working on a 
contractual basis with the charitable organization that hosted the 
script development wiki.

And of course, the credits at the end of the film must include all the 
contributors, but if the list is too long, the creadits would point to a 
website with that info.

So how about it? Insert links to your interested charitable organization 
here.

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ps. i would be willing to put it on my server where folks could at least 
pick up the source code and advance the work