Hey guys,
I've been thinking. I think a lot of these ideas are great, but I feel like a lot of them aren't out of the ordinary. So I'm going to throw out one of my remaining ideas, that seems straight out of left field, but might have possibility.
**Create a Web site that is based non-fiction mini-movies that present the news in a non-news, movie-like style. It would be headlined with everything you'd find in a paper--news, international, local, living arts, sports, business, money, etc. and take the major headlines from the week. At the end of each week, developers could edit "mini-movies" of the news and deliver is as a package of the weekly events..........this is probably confusing, so here's an example of what I'm trying to get at.
Everyone's watched VH1's Best Week Ever most likely, or at least heard of it http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/best_week_ever/series.jhtml. That show takes the week's headlines and develops it into a comical, but insightful show. The use of audio clips from online news broadcasts are readily available under all television news channel's web pages at this point (abcnews.com for example). If you watch this link to last week's show of Best Week Ever, you can see how the show uses an array of audio/video clips from the major news channels to demonstrate many different opinions (when they are talking about the ending of the Sopranos for example). VH1 takes clips from Inside Edition, Regis and Kelly, and The View and takes clips from legitimate opinions/responses about the news, after giving a summary of the news.
A recap like this could fit any niche, as long as there's enough prior information/audio/video/photography of an event the event when it occured during the week. I think reporting news in this type of form would really attract younger crowds, that don't necessarily care about cold hard facts (like newspapers present), but want to just get an idea of what the big stories and news is in the country/world.
I don't know if anyone wants to piggy back this idea, or team it up with an idea. I'm not too sure. I just wanted to bring a creative element to the board and see if anyone jumps on it, or if it stirs up any other thoughts out of people.
Cheers.
2 comments:
I like this Idea, b/c I am struggling with thinking the ideas aren't as creative as they could be. I think our group has come up with some great ideas though. And I think this one sounds pretty cool.
i like the movie idea - but who's going to create it?
could we set it up so users could create their own movies with clips and audio supplied by the news guys?
Where would the movie/movies live?
Good start to the idea - think it thru some more. You other guys have some things to add?
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