murraysw
February 10th, 2007, 06:54 PM
Hey there community,
I´ve been using Ubuntu for about 4 months now. I have everything I could possibly need running in it and working, from World of Warcraft down to Beryl. I´m a bit of a design geek, so I thought I´d share with you my idea for an Ubuntu ad campaign:
http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=poweredbyubuntuec8.jpg
This is my desktop, spans across 2 19¨ widescreens, I laid out the screenshot like this in order for people to really get a feel of just how cool / efficient linux can be. Most people don´t know half the power of linux - I sure didnt when I started playing with it
It´s fairly simple, but you get the idea.....you can clearly see a music player, windows xp, google earth, firefox, synaptic and a console running in the single screenshot, in a much cooler fashion than Vista does (not to mention much more __sleek__ and __fast__). I think because of the sheer look of shots like this that people will be curious to know what the hell it is considering we can tell them its not Windows OR Mac.
I know there are hundreds of ¨COMPIZ/BERYL DESKTOP¨ videos on youtube, but we need to make some actual video clips of people saying funny things and doing funny things - what I was thinking was in the style of the new apple ¨Im PC / Im Mac¨ ads. **** Not to mention a good explanation of what exactly is going on. Ie\ ¨This is Ubuntu Linux, a free alternative to Mac OSX and Windows Vista.¨ People need an explanation of whats going on, since the general public has a hard idea of even grasping what an OS is.
What do you guys think? If some video of the desktop combined with other peoples submitted cool geeky desktops augmented with some Apple ¨Im mac/pc¨ style clips, I think we could get some viral youtube marketting of them going.
What we´d need for a project like this:
1) Person with a video camera
2) Someone that knows how to do the whitewash backdrop like the mac commercials AND/OR someone that is proficient in video editting.
3) Someone that can write some funny dialogue
4) Some video of/screen caps of power-usered tweaked out Ubuntu desktops to compare in the ad to XP / Mac / Vista.
5) Profit!!!!
I figure if we get a few decent videos produced, we could have a sort of ¨hit series¨ of ads on youtube, and the fire would spread from there....
If anyone wants to work on this or has any ideas give me a shout.
It doesnt have to be exactly along the lines of ¨Im Mac/Im PC/Im Linux¨ we could do something else. It was just the first thing that came to my mind that would be easy/funny. We could do something very serious too....something almost Car-commercialish...
Anyways, throw me some feedback!!!
-Scott
I´ve been using Ubuntu for about 4 months now. I have everything I could possibly need running in it and working, from World of Warcraft down to Beryl. I´m a bit of a design geek, so I thought I´d share with you my idea for an Ubuntu ad campaign:
http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=poweredbyubuntuec8.jpg
This is my desktop, spans across 2 19¨ widescreens, I laid out the screenshot like this in order for people to really get a feel of just how cool / efficient linux can be. Most people don´t know half the power of linux - I sure didnt when I started playing with it
It´s fairly simple, but you get the idea.....you can clearly see a music player, windows xp, google earth, firefox, synaptic and a console running in the single screenshot, in a much cooler fashion than Vista does (not to mention much more __sleek__ and __fast__). I think because of the sheer look of shots like this that people will be curious to know what the hell it is considering we can tell them its not Windows OR Mac.
I know there are hundreds of ¨COMPIZ/BERYL DESKTOP¨ videos on youtube, but we need to make some actual video clips of people saying funny things and doing funny things - what I was thinking was in the style of the new apple ¨Im PC / Im Mac¨ ads. **** Not to mention a good explanation of what exactly is going on. Ie\ ¨This is Ubuntu Linux, a free alternative to Mac OSX and Windows Vista.¨ People need an explanation of whats going on, since the general public has a hard idea of even grasping what an OS is.
What do you guys think? If some video of the desktop combined with other peoples submitted cool geeky desktops augmented with some Apple ¨Im mac/pc¨ style clips, I think we could get some viral youtube marketting of them going.
What we´d need for a project like this:
1) Person with a video camera
2) Someone that knows how to do the whitewash backdrop like the mac commercials AND/OR someone that is proficient in video editting.
3) Someone that can write some funny dialogue
4) Some video of/screen caps of power-usered tweaked out Ubuntu desktops to compare in the ad to XP / Mac / Vista.
5) Profit!!!!
I figure if we get a few decent videos produced, we could have a sort of ¨hit series¨ of ads on youtube, and the fire would spread from there....
If anyone wants to work on this or has any ideas give me a shout.
It doesnt have to be exactly along the lines of ¨Im Mac/Im PC/Im Linux¨ we could do something else. It was just the first thing that came to my mind that would be easy/funny. We could do something very serious too....something almost Car-commercialish...
Anyways, throw me some feedback!!!
-Scott