493 Blog #4

     If I were to organize my own crowdsourced project, I think I would want to incorporate music in some way, seeing as how nearly every aspect of every layer of a song pulls influence from many other sources itself.  I'd like to try and organize a project that sort of displayed the way vast and diverse pools of influence can come together to make music.  This is just an idea, but maybe, after gathering participants, gather them into groups and give them each an order in which they are to add a layer to the song (percussion, melody, vocals, bass melody, etc.), and other group members will eventually come to model their layer of the song to go together with the layer(s) already made for it.  This way, we would have people from all over the world coming together and combining their influences to create several 100% worldly songs, which would then be combined into a sort of "visual album," the visuals for which also being crowdsourced after the music's completion.  If you're gonna crowdsource, asking a large population to contribute to a project, I feel like taking the music route is also a good way to bring passion from participants to the table, as it's practically a fact that everyone on earth enjoys music to some degree.  In the end, I think it is a project idea that I could see bringing people together.

493 Blog #3

     As we move into pre-production, I would say that what I'm feeling most is curiosity.  I feel like our class has gotten so much mapped out regarding the concepts and script of the film, but so much of what the final product will be is hinged on content we are able to pull from people that participate in its production.  I find myself wondering whether enough people will understand the vision, and if they do, how many will be truly driven to contribute.  These are things to always keep in mind when devising promotional strategies from here on out of course, but also things that keep the image in my head of what the film will end up being constantly changing and unable to pin down really.  However, when it comes to personal responsibilities such as being newly put in charge of promotional sticker design, I realize it will take a considerable amount of personal vision on my end right along with everyone else, thus again reminding me that the this film's final form goes so far beyond one person's vision or perception.  Needless to say, I find such speculation exciting and look forward to what is to come.