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Gandhi

29-07-2006, 21:20

Just wondering if everybody is happy with the format/structure timings etc for this? If you have any suggestions for ways to improve it or inject a bit of something then now is the time to speak up!

Theme ideas requested as well please....... my thoughts are.....

transport,
the 5 senses,
nightlife,
my town,
my favourite thing,
food,
what I did on my holidays,
journalistic style,
Portrait,
Pets (just for rob when he gets back)

Anymore appreciated and I'll take the best!

Thanks in advance!

Marianne

29-07-2006, 21:52

before and after....have to put two images together on one canvas?

minimeeze

30-07-2006, 09:18

Just a few more ideas...

emotions
three
mono
pattern
light / dark

InaGlo

31-07-2006, 13:52

Sound
Occasions
Weather
Red
Shopping
Sweets
Collections
Era's
Period clothing

Glen

31-07-2006, 14:29

Music
Funny
Envy
Light
Crazy
Analogue

RobertP

31-07-2006, 14:43

I think the comp and assignment would get more entries if they were more noticable. Not sure how though :)

Maybe a locked thread that says 8 days left for assignment and 15 days left for comp (as the thread title so you don't have to open it?) that gets updated and bumped regularly. Need some kind of advert/reminder to keep awareness up. I know they are there but I always think there is more time left than there is.

Gandhi

31-07-2006, 14:50

I think that's down to my poor housekeeping Robert more than anything! I'll certainly try and pimp the challenges a bit more, tis a fine line between gentle reminders and bein a pita though. I normaly fall towards the latter unfortunately lol.

Glen

31-07-2006, 17:57

Marcel

31-07-2006, 18:21

That's a good idea. We'll definately look into that.

I think the problem I find personally, and the reason I personally don't enter is that they have always been hard to 'find' IE Where we're up to with the comp etc, as the threads intermingled and disappeared. Hence the reorganising into competition and inspiration forums.

As it stands now, the comp I can follow, but the themes I find hard, there's one thread for this, one thread for that, another for images etc.....

Would one thread for each theme (ie submissions AND discussion in the one thread) be easier? And it could be titled with the theme, and a closing date, with a running poll as a sticky denoting which is coming next ?

RobertP

31-07-2006, 19:48

Maybe one thread whilst it runs with pictures and comment then paste the images into a new poll thread for voting only? (that won't bump awareness though ;) )

Marcel

31-07-2006, 20:07

RobertP

31-07-2006, 20:32

Thought that was what made it different to the 'post your pets/macros/whatever' threads?

Not for or against voting really. Wonder if it puts people off thinking they might get no votes?

Marcel

31-07-2006, 20:54

Well the reason behind it was that if there's a winner then it's technically a competition, so why isn't it in the competition forum, (if that makes sense).

I suggested to the team that it might be better if we turned it so it was more inline with the forum, and made it an inspiration...basically the theme was to give people an idea of something to photograph, a joint aim as it were, then we can all go and shoot our own interpretation of the theme, and discuss our shots accordingly, without there being any winners etc.

That, and the fact, it's pretty much the same as the competition, only run over 2 weeks instead of 4...

Gandhi

01-08-2006, 03:53

Well we were supposed to have abadonded the voting on the themed shots, as it's supposed to be more of an inspiration rather than a competition :D

But if everyone wants to keep voting on them then....:D

nobody bothered to tell me that! lol!

I understand completely about the multithread nightmare.

How about if I condense it all down into one thread for this version and remove the vote at the end of it all? Try it like that for a bit and if it falls flat on it's face we can always change it back or look at another way of doing it??

'tis good this intererenet malarky, democratic and flexible :)

Marcel

01-08-2006, 08:40

hehe

Can try it that way if you like. Not sure if you have permissions to remove the poll at the end of it though...or if such a permission is assignable (like the ability to create polls) (although a quick RTM would give us the nod to do it for you ;))

Anyone else got an idea / preference as to how it should work?

Keltic Ice Man

01-08-2006, 20:53

Do you remember when we had 2 threads and a nice swish clicky linky between the 2 so that you could go from one to the other easily. That was really good - IMHO

To bump the days left perhaps on the front page could we not do a timer sort of thingy - so many days left on such and such comp, or such and such assignment - Or if this could be under the calendar or at the top of the usual forum that might be an idea.

Ok thats todays idea - time to go back to my box and fall asleep - too much work done already. :D

Allan

Witch

02-09-2006, 13:58

So - time to think up a theme for the next assignment then? I've missed the last two. I also missed the level of discussion that usually arises over the assignments. Not sure whether the lack of it was to do with there not being a vote, or not......?

RobertP

02-09-2006, 14:03

. I also missed the level of discussion that usually arises over the assignments. Not sure whether the lack of it was to do with there not being a vote, or not......?

I think it was just low visibility.....seemed to dissappear somehow.

h.r.ford

02-09-2006, 18:49

I was thinking... Tired. You could do allot with tired and read allot into it. Just my two cents.
Renee

sue

03-09-2006, 15:38

Might be nice to have a bit more disscussion surrounding the photos for the theme as this time doesnt seem to be many disscussion points. I would like to know what people think about them without having to past them in the photo sharing area.