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

[Sean DALY]

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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