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

[Mike Lee]

Profoundly fantastic shots!

I don't think I caught the photographer's name. I hope we will be able
to fully credit him.



On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> SoaS USB stick beauty shots are ready!
>>
>> Will upload to wiki this evening
>>
>> (Christian: will mail you a drop.io link per your request yesterday)
>>
>> SoaS netbook shots should be done by Friday - more complex and my
>> photographer friend has work to do so I left the netbooks with him
>> until then.
>>
>> Population is:
>>
>> 3 OLPC XO-1s
>> Dell Latitude 2100 education netbook (School Bus Yellow - arrived an
>> hour before the shoot!)
>> Asus EeePC 701 (pink)
>> Acer Aspire One (white)
>> Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (metallic green - arrived yesterday!)
>> Olidata JumPc Gen1 Intel Classmate (orange)
>>
>> After looking at a brief Sugar demonstration (and admiring the XOs),
>> the photographer proposed arranging the netbooks in a ring, each one
>> with a USB stick in, one version lids closed (colors), one version
>> lids open (screenshots will be added). He suggested the final ring
>> images have the Sugar logo in the center.
>>
>> he will also try a couple of depth-of-field shots, a closeup of a
>> netbook with Sugar on the screen with colored lids of other netbooks
>> in the background.
>>
>> 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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