[Marketing] Sugar on a Stick beauty shots days away, suggestions please

[Walter Bender]

Another shot that would be fabulous is Sugar running on a pile of old
clunkers in a school computer lab.

-walter

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> These are planned to be white-backdrop "product" shots; the main idea
> is to show assorted netbooks + XOs, along the lines of:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/hardware/soa/Photos-OLPC-XO-Classmate-and-the-Eee-PC/0,139023759,339286489-2s,00.htm
> but each running Sugar.
>
> The latest OLPC XO shots are getting long in the tooth now and there
> are very few "beauty" shots :-) of netbooks running Sugar
>
> USB suggestion is excellent, I've been concerned about that confusion too
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mike Lee<curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last-minute suggestions:
>>
>> - Shoot closeup of the branded SoaS USB drive with several other
>> common USB drives to illustrate the point that SoaS is for most any
>> drive. My concern is that seeing beauty shots of the branded stick
>> everywhere will cause people to think that SL is developing USB drive
>> hardware with SoaS pre-loaded as a product.
>>
>> - Shoot the USB drive on a lanyard hanging with a bunch of keys,
>> school ID badge and another generic USB drive on male and female
>> teacher just neck down.
>>
>> - Also shoot USB drive hanging from a colorful backpack. Maybe have
>> backpack on kid.
>>
>> - Trite, but couldn't resist: SL USB drive with an apple on a classroom desk.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:44 AM, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> SoaS / netbooks+XOs beauty shots are scheduled for Wednesday.
>>>>
>>>> Screenshots will be done on each machine just before the shoot and
>>>> pasted in (photographing a screen is difficult under bright lighting).
>>>>
>>>> Last-minute suggestions welcome please.
>>>
>>> Are they called 'beauty shots' in the tech industry:)
>>>
>>> david
>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> My photographer friend will be able to shoot the studio beauty shots
>>>>> of the Sugar Labs sticks, XO-1s, netbooks etc. in the coming week.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great ideas were suggested during our May 19th marketing meeting
>>>>> (http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090519_1105.html),
>>>>> before I schedule the shoot does anyone have further ideas to share?
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: the idea is to take a large number of different kinds of photos,
>>>>> and pick a few good ones from those.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean
>>>>>
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Walter Bender
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