Thanks Michael, those are excellent suggestions. I understand where you're coming from and I think your scenes are effective. It is difficult to do an ad that appeals to a wide range of people. IBM's "Linux child" series was a masterpiece, that had wide appeal, though non-techies must have found it cryptic.<br><br><br><b><i>Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Just my $0.02 USD worth, or so, ...<br><br>but I'd be inclined to:<br>scrap the two with the gal crawling all over the guy,<br>go back to the "Macs are cool" shot, redo that one, almost exactly the same,<br>but just cover more of the surrounding area (particularly to the sides and<br>front of the (presumed) models). That makes your "Macs are cool" shot.<br>Then redo it for "Linux is hot". *Exactly* the same (same models, clothes,<br>location, camera positioning, etc.),
except I'd change it as follows:<br>those two models are smiling a fair bit more, ... but not too much - enough<br>to suggest they're much more content and satisfied with what they're<br>working with/on, but nothing to suggest what's going on is at all<br>out-of-the-ordinary or exceptional in what they observe - and their gazes are<br>still as fixed upon their computer screens ... except they're not Mac<br>computers ... they're something "obiously" running LINUX (or so should well<br>be implied by the apparent logos/stickers), ... and ... there's a fair sized<br>crowd around each of them, swooning at them (but not crawling over them),<br>"hot" guys and gals, ... and<br>heck, maybe even a fair mix of 40/50/.../70+ folks mixed in there too, <br>all swooning and quite obviously admiring the users of Linux (and to a<br>lesser degree their systems running Linux - but some can have their<br>attention focused there too) ... and again, the two using the Linux systems<br>are
carrying on as if to say, "This is nothing at all unusual or extrordinary,<br>this is just how it always is with Linux".<br><br>Actually, ... could change out the models sitting at the computers in the<br>"Linux is hot" shot, as described above, ... but attire, presentation,<br>posture, etc., should be quite similar (using the exact same pair at<br>the computers might seem a bit "confusing" (e.g. what came first, why'd<br>they switch, which way, etc.)). Maybe also arrange those two tables a<br>bit further apart (more emphasis on the relative "coolness") of Mac) - and<br>also leaves more room for an admiring/swooning crowd with same position<br>of the computer using models and tables in the "Linux is hot" shot.<br><br>references/excerpts:<br>"Linux posters" sequence:<br>http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/2006-October/001897.html<br>http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/2006-October/subject.html<br><br><br>Quoting Adrien Lamothe:<br><br>> I've made some Linux posters.
Have spoken with someone about perhaps printing<br>> and selling them, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Free Software<br>> Foundation. Scaled-down versions are on my website, at:<br>> <br>> http://www.adriensweb.com/images/linux_gnu.html<br>> http://www.adriensweb.com/images/linux_is_hot.html<br>> <br>> Any feedback is appreciated.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Oakland mailing list<br>Oakland@pm.org<br>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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