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I liked the map. I really hope you're not going to use a greenscreen in the background. That would destroy the kind of low-tech atmosphere of the show..
Nice show - it felt quite short and it didn't seem to flow, as well as others, but I still liked it.
Now - come on someone with more time on their hands than me - must have worked out the code? It may even be very simple (I didn't even properly listen) - reveal all.
Yay the map is down, we are moving forward, I will keep that in the back on my mind today and see if I can think of anything new to replace it. I am sure you will get some creative ideas.
ooooohhh...she is getting her groove. Hmmm...I would suggest something that the viewers make up. We submit a picture of somesort and you can post it up with a green screen kind of thing...get it? It makes it more veiwer friendly. Also, we tune in to see if we made it. Nothing obscene, of course.
Wow! just how Joanne blinked that eye at the end! GREAT!
I think much can be won if indeed Joanne is able to be close and personal with her viewers. And treats them as good friends. A fact that Amanda on many occasions told us she thought was differentiating the show from regular tv.
As for the map: I would try out different things and let the audience decide. Maybe some hip art. Or a pop-art map? Or maybe greenscreen and put a giant newsroom backdrop in there. Or an aquarium or a beachmovie, or other landscapes. Or an audience?
I kinda get the idea you're thinking of a cg replacement for the map. If that's the case, viewer submitted makes sense to me. Maybe change once a month, week, or whenever a new one you like comes in. If you want to remain the low tech, maybe a collection of stuff you find fitting. Add and removed stuff as you like. I don't know, design has never been my strong point.
I was thinking that some awesome nature and landscape photography would be a great background. It would give us a chance to escape our busy days for a moment and think about all the beautiful places on earth. To see what I am talkin about I PSed this image...http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g56/rowdyb7/rocketboomwaterbg.jpg
Let me throw in one more vote for a collage instead of the map. Years ago I recall a gallery show that had a wall made up of FAXes received, with 10-15% of the sheets changing every day. Definitively interactive, at the risk of becoming an infinite time sink for whichever staffer has to choose and arrange the daily additions.
So, how about .jpg's of a fixed size (A4 or letter paper?) submitted with a hint as to which quadrant it should go into? Runners-up get put nearby instead.
Nice symbology chucking the map as you undergo your metamorphis, Joanne! And it's great to see more of your personality surface. Amanda's brand was sassy, sarcastic, intelligent and sexy (hmmm, one of of four reasons to ditch NY and head for LA).
Joanne, to date you've shown us the making of a good boy scout: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent. All great stuff for a bride, yet fickle viewers looking for entertainment need more personality - heart and soul, please :-)
Cali Lewis (GeekBrief) earned the hearts and souls of the masses by revealing her true self speaking from her heart along with all the bloopers, and it's great to see your true nature begin to emerge. Acknowledging the viewer feedback (remove the map) in the RocketBoom blog was the perfect move. Map or no map, it's irrelevant, but getting close to the audience... AHA, you've hit paydirt!
I definitely vote for chromakeying (green screen) and your parallel about cut-n-pasting old photos was the perfect lead in - very smart move!
Please don't go blue screen. One of the main elements that has made Rocketboom so charming is its brazen cheapness. Green Screen is so local TV news, so corporate video.
From a graphic point of view, it is better to keep the background from distracting us from the important thing--looking at Joanne.
How about changing the poster? Have people send in stuff. Make it just like the t-shirts.
It might be fun to place Joanne in incongruous locales sometimes, like Michel Gondry does. (remember the video. with Beck working at his desk on a beach?) Green screen is a cliche. Rocketboom is wonderful because of its imagination--and that comes from avoiding cliches.
I like the idea of ditching the map, but a green screen seems cheesy.
But there are lots of other maps that could be used as a background. The happiness map from yesterday. The global shipping map from rb.org. The poverty map, where each country is sized according to income per capita. All different ways of looking at the same thing. I'd suggest using a different map each month.
Joanne was better than yesterday. But, get your tone lower, she's hearing us.
That bench, well, I don't know, but it's not my cup of tea. Perhaps in a museum of bizarre things, but useful...
Weird suggestion for the green screen: a mirror, so we see a bi-dimensional "panorama" of RocketBoom studio. Or better, a 3-D panorama of the place RB is being filmed (joker mode on) That is the sunny L.A, Drew? (joker mode off).Perhaps the image on the background could change depending the day of the week, or the ironic mood of the production...
PS: Man of Impeccable Taste made the news, curiously after the men that act like dogs piece....haha
And if you can, please turn off autoplay, do it so you can click to start the download after the page loads. And if you can't can you tell my y you can't.
Weird bench. I wouldn't mind sleeping on one of those. At least the old people couldn't stare at me so easily. Have you ever noticed how frequently old people stare the younger generations? It's maddening. I wonder what they're thinking...
Background -- something changeable would be nice. Greenscreen seems too obvious of a choice...and has been done to death.
Perhaps a drawing that had a small bit added to it every day...and over time it would take form. It would be a nice story within the daily Rocketboom story. It could just be continuously evolving without end.
Then, over time you would have a nice stop motion piece animating the lifespan of your drawing.
how about replacing the map with a map of just england, with a massive, bold-faced target over it? just kidding, not trying to offend any british folks.
i personally liked the map. andrew, it also feels, to me at least, like you're overcompensating and letting viewers have more say in the finer nuances of the show than we need to have. i realize you may need to allow for this for now during transition, but it's a slippery slope, and once the customers are used to controlling you, they'll always want a say in everything. this is not to be confused with customers providing useful input on matters that are relevant to maintaining your fan base. to me at least, it seems to cross that line between "we want your input to make the show awesome" vs. "we at rb are losing faith in ourselves and are desperate for help at any level, not to mention we're desperate to prove our good faith". in my opinion, there's a huge difference in audience perception when you start letting them take out the aspects of the show that made it what it was (to an extent).
if you're not careful with this, you may find yourself spread so thin agonizing about decisions that are not that important, that you'll end up wasting energy on thinking about every complaint instead of focusing on the important stuff, like the content of the show. you may feel you owe the viewers some say in these matters, but all the way down to things like "background" seems a bit extreme -- you already appeased people with removing the keyboard clicks and a whole slew of other transitional stuff (not to mention you took a fair amount of flak for all kinds of scuttlebutt) -- i offer that it's time to move on, those viewers who don't like the fact that amanda is gone may never be fully appeased, and giving them more room than necessary is only going to fuel more and more nitpicky demands. which takes away from the continuity, quality and originality of the show, at least to me, which is the reason why i'm ranting in the first place.
as i add other podcasts to my subscription list, i feel like there are other more interesting areas to get user feedback on than background, which was just fine, not to mention perfectly representative of the entire rb philosophy (i have been watching from the beginning, in case anyone wants to flame me for being a poseur).
in that vein, a serious suggestion is to use a higher-end, techno-savvy global map, or even a cool infrared or otherwise digitally filtered NASA shot of the earth, isolated in space (since you're in stage 2 of jettisoning thrust boosters, no?). maybe invest in backlighting or subtle LED enhancements to make it stand out enough to show off the techieness, without overpowering joanne's form.
just my opinion, thanks for reading.
oh, and one last thing -- is it me, or did joanne, who normally looks pretty freakin' hot, somehow look even hotter today? like 50 times hotter?
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Now - come on someone with more time on their hands than me - must have worked out the code? It may even be very simple (I didn't even properly listen) - reveal all.
Throw some pillows on that bench and I would lay down and take a nap.
I was just watching a stop motion film on motion abbeyhttp://www.motionabbey.net/2006/04/the_art_of_motion.html
Yay the map is down, we are moving forward, I will keep that in the back on my mind today and see if I can think of anything new to replace it. I am sure you will get some creative ideas.
I think much can be won if indeed Joanne is able to be close and personal with her viewers. And treats them as good friends. A fact that Amanda on many occasions told us she thought was differentiating the show from regular tv.
As for the map: I would try out different things and let the audience decide. Maybe some hip art. Or a pop-art map? Or maybe greenscreen and put a giant newsroom backdrop in there. Or an aquarium or a beachmovie, or other landscapes. Or an audience?
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Good mix of articles and thanks for ditching the map and, well.....it was baggage....
Presentation was super good!!! Didn't seem fake today like it was yesterday with all the wacked out expressions...
Gotta keep watching, keep up the good work!!!! Great job!!!!!!!!!
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I like maps, but seeing the old map removed was good. It's a good "out with the old and start with a new" change.
Andrew, is it possible to have backgrounds of pictures that viewers upload?
You have a page where viewers upload images and you can approve ones for background?
A big rocket too.
So, how about .jpg's of a fixed size (A4 or letter paper?) submitted with a hint as to which quadrant it should go into? Runners-up get put nearby instead.
Joanne, to date you've shown us the making of a good boy scout: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent. All great stuff for a bride, yet fickle viewers looking for entertainment need more personality - heart and soul, please :-)
Cali Lewis (GeekBrief) earned the hearts and souls of the masses by revealing her true self speaking from her heart along with all the bloopers, and it's great to see your true nature begin to emerge. Acknowledging the viewer feedback (remove the map) in the RocketBoom blog was the perfect move. Map or no map, it's irrelevant, but getting close to the audience... AHA, you've hit paydirt!
I definitely vote for chromakeying (green screen) and your parallel about cut-n-pasting old photos was the perfect lead in - very smart move!
Hugs,
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That's weird, but I like it weird.
From a graphic point of view, it is better to keep the background from distracting us from the important thing--looking at Joanne.
How about changing the poster? Have people send in stuff. Make it just like the t-shirts.
It might be fun to place Joanne in incongruous locales sometimes, like Michel Gondry does. (remember the video. with Beck working at his desk on a beach?) Green screen is a cliche. Rocketboom is wonderful because of its imagination--and that comes from avoiding cliches.
But there are lots of other maps that could be used as a background. The happiness map from yesterday. The global shipping map from rb.org. The poverty map, where each country is sized according to income per capita. All different ways of looking at the same thing. I'd suggest using a different map each month.
Still very RB, but with a new 2.0 twist.
That bench, well, I don't know, but it's not my cup of tea. Perhaps in a museum of bizarre things, but useful...
Weird suggestion for the green screen: a mirror, so we see a bi-dimensional "panorama" of RocketBoom studio. Or better, a 3-D panorama of the place RB is being filmed (joker mode on) That is the sunny L.A, Drew? (joker mode off).Perhaps the image on the background could change depending the day of the week, or the ironic mood of the production...
PS: Man of Impeccable Taste made the news, curiously after the men that act like dogs piece....haha
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Geez ppl.
As For the background, my 2 cents: K.I.S.
And if you can, please turn off autoplay, do it so you can click to start the download after the page loads. And if you can't can you tell my y you can't.
Nice show today
But Drew is not in catatonic state anymore. Until someone from outer space I(read vlogs) comes back with a vengeance.
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each t-shirt Joanne wears should be taken off at the end of each episode and tacked onto the wall.
(she could turn her back to us, so you wouldn't have a XXX rating)
I think you should replace the map with a Joanne Colan Mural, Joanne Colan art, sweet.
C'mon guys!
Also, I liked the Peace T-shirt and the symbolism of getting rid of the map is great too.
Looking forward to see what you guys are going to do in the next few weeks.
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Perhaps a drawing that had a small bit added to it every day...and over time it would take form. It would be a nice story within the daily Rocketboom story. It could just be continuously evolving without end.
Then, over time you would have a nice stop motion piece animating the lifespan of your drawing.
It's kinda silly... but since we can no longer see our earth, can we at least see the stars?
I liked the map thing as a childish mockery to the serious elder TV shows of more serious hosts discussing the even more serious news of the world.
How about a smoking pipe, a fireplace and an extensive bookshelf in the back? nah that wouldn't work... perhaps an aereal image of Cape Cañaveral?
I'm confused :(
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oh!!! i know! a map of the internet!!
btw, monday and tuesday's episodes were been absolutely smashing!
i personally liked the map. andrew, it also feels, to me at least, like you're overcompensating and letting viewers have more say in the finer nuances of the show than we need to have. i realize you may need to allow for this for now during transition, but it's a slippery slope, and once the customers are used to controlling you, they'll always want a say in everything. this is not to be confused with customers providing useful input on matters that are relevant to maintaining your fan base. to me at least, it seems to cross that line between "we want your input to make the show awesome" vs. "we at rb are losing faith in ourselves and are desperate for help at any level, not to mention we're desperate to prove our good faith". in my opinion, there's a huge difference in audience perception when you start letting them take out the aspects of the show that made it what it was (to an extent).
if you're not careful with this, you may find yourself spread so thin agonizing about decisions that are not that important, that you'll end up wasting energy on thinking about every complaint instead of focusing on the important stuff, like the content of the show. you may feel you owe the viewers some say in these matters, but all the way down to things like "background" seems a bit extreme -- you already appeased people with removing the keyboard clicks and a whole slew of other transitional stuff (not to mention you took a fair amount of flak for all kinds of scuttlebutt) -- i offer that it's time to move on, those viewers who don't like the fact that amanda is gone may never be fully appeased, and giving them more room than necessary is only going to fuel more and more nitpicky demands. which takes away from the continuity, quality and originality of the show, at least to me, which is the reason why i'm ranting in the first place.
as i add other podcasts to my subscription list, i feel like there are other more interesting areas to get user feedback on than background, which was just fine, not to mention perfectly representative of the entire rb philosophy (i have been watching from the beginning, in case anyone wants to flame me for being a poseur).
in that vein, a serious suggestion is to use a higher-end, techno-savvy global map, or even a cool infrared or otherwise digitally filtered NASA shot of the earth, isolated in space (since you're in stage 2 of jettisoning thrust boosters, no?). maybe invest in backlighting or subtle LED enhancements to make it stand out enough to show off the techieness, without overpowering joanne's form.
just my opinion, thanks for reading.
oh, and one last thing -- is it me, or did joanne, who normally looks pretty freakin' hot, somehow look even hotter today? like 50 times hotter?
But I liked the map also...
Joanne is better than Amanda.
When Joanne tore down the map, it would have beeen funny to see another identical map behind it.
Today's show and some of the past ones don't seem as polished as previous episodes?
All in all, good 3 minutes of entertaiment!