Event suggestion thread

[Mesogears]

Since I see a lot of events being posted in this section that never really get off the ground, I've decided to make a thread where people can post their ideas and suggestions. That way, they can see if anyone is interested in their album / challenge / etc. before making an official thread for it.

[S.P.P]

This thread is a great idea!

Anyways, I was thinking of doing a thing soon where people wrote songs about OTHER things they're fans of, and NOT My Little Pony.

There are Pokemon fans, Breaking Bad fans, Attack On Titan fans, Star Wars, Naruto, whatever! The plan is to write about other things and not ponies. I think it would open up a bit of a wider spectrum of material and give bronies an excuse opportunity to write about other stuff; as well as the non bronies here getting stuck in writing about other things they enjoy.

Anybody got any opinion on this?

[ExoBassTix]

1) Thread Of The Year 2013
2) Get sticky'd pls
3) Pyre do that right now, please force me to finish my Myst tribute thing.

[S.P.P]

This thread is a great idea!

Anyways, I was thinking of doing a thing soon where people wrote songs about OTHER things they're fans of, and NOT My Little Pony.

There are Pokemon fans, Breaking Bad fans, Attack On Titan fans, Star Wars, Naruto, whatever! The plan is to write about other things and not ponies. I think it would open up a bit of a wider spectrum of material and give bronies an excuse opportunity to write about other stuff; as well as the non bronies here getting stuck in writing about other things they enjoy.

Anybody got any opinion on this?

Like an album dedicated to whatever fanthing? like not just a breaking bad album for instance, but an album with all kinds of fanmade stuff?

I'd be hype for that, Ive been wanting to make nichijou stuff for a bit so....

Exactly this. All different, not just an album full of pony songs / breaking bad songs / <insert fandom here> songs. A mixup of all sorts of TV, vidja and movie etc. that people like.

[Coloriot]

I like crash bandicoot :3

[Freewave]

I think the biggest thing i can contribute is that the organizer has to seriously think about the event in advance, communicate it well, and then really do a better job of keeping people on schedule and informed of any changes. Events are not done well here and there's a LOT of room for development so here's my big 7 points for fixing that here.


The 7 Laws of Event Planning

1. What is the event? Is it too similar to previous ones? Is it of interest to people (who'd have to contribute a track AND for an audience who'd want to hear it) and coherent. Is this free? Where will funds go otherwise (better not go in the organizer's pocket)? Has this all been suffieicently thought out in advance?

2. Is the orgnanizer someone who people know and who can be trusted with running the event? No offense but i see all the people putting their second or third post on MLR for a new event that they haven't planned out at all. I'd recommend getting to know people before asking them to contribute to a 1-2 month long project and for them to know and trust you. Your age or a busy social life is not a good excuse to start one and leave.

3. Can this event be done on time and will other events make this hard to stay on schedule? One event i was in never happened because there was initially a 2 week delay, then another 2 weeks, and then it was postponed for another month. That's not fair to anyone who gets their track done on time. You can only have so many event albums before there are too many. People will publish their completed tracks on their own if they get delayed a long time.

4. Can you keep a skype channel on-topic and non spammy during the event window? I've joined a few events where people used the group chat for gossip and off-topic conversation and I (and some others) often avoid those. Groups should get wips in shape and keep people on schedule, not just be another group chat for chatter. If its full of spam then its not of use.

5. Is the group chat or thread active? If the organizer or the particpants aren't using the thread or group chat each week then its incredibly easy for people to forget about the project and work on other events or their own music. Events have to be thriving to be productive.

6. Is there quality control? Having some sort of quality control to make the album consistent (especially if there's more tracks then cd length) is a good idea. While too much quality control (balloon party and rainbow & rooted 85% rejection rate) can make an event unfun, having an album that's lopsided or with low quality or off-topic entries isn't good for the listener. The organizers and their "judges" should try to be fair to the aritsts and the listeners to make it work well.

7. Plan to promote this album (if pony then give EQD generally a week or two to spotlight) or it won't be seen. If it's a fund raiser try to give it that kind of a focus and a wider level social reblogging. Promotion has to be a part of the focus with any event and make sure people link the comp (not direct downloads) for at least the first few weeks. Artists who have contributed NEED to be part of the promotion effort....

I miss anything??

[Mesogears]

This thread is a great idea!

Anyways, I was thinking of doing a thing soon where people wrote songs about OTHER things they're fans of, and NOT My Little Pony.

There are Pokemon fans, Breaking Bad fans, Attack On Titan fans, Star Wars, Naruto, whatever! The plan is to write about other things and not ponies. I think it would open up a bit of a wider spectrum of material and give bronies an excuse opportunity to write about other stuff; as well as the non bronies here getting stuck in writing about other things they enjoy.

Anybody got any opinion on this?

Sounds pretty cool. I'd definitely do something Kingdom Hearts related for that.

Also, @Freewave: Thanks for posting that! But the main reason I started this thread is so people can express interest for events before they're created. It may help cut down on all the event threads being created on a whim.

Maybe we should sticky this thread and have all potential events be posted here before a thread is created. It could really help event organization.

[ExoBassTix]

Necro because this thread is of use to me.

On AmbientOnline, there's this ongoing competition called One Sample Dare. In a nutshell, the winner of the last round uploads a sample (be it some speech fragment, a field recording, or whatever sample), and people get 16 days from thread start to use that sample (and ONLY that sample) to make a track out of it. You can use the sample (or part of it) in a VST that uses a sample for the oscillator waveform, but try to avoid that.
After the 16 days, a poll is created to allow for voting the few days after it. Winner makes new thread with new sample and so on and so forth.

Obviously, this is leaning towards purely Ambient (even though it doesn't necessarily have to be Ambient; creativity), but would this be something of interest for you guys? If anything, it's a good way to do something fun, and to do something different. You can join or decide not to.

Do or don't? As a contest?