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Sunday, August 22, 2004
DVD Madness
I had heard that Warner Bros./Village Roadshow were going to put out a nine disc box set for The Matrix, by the end of 2004. What I didn't know, was the extent to which they'd go. The set is actually a full 10 discs and includes a variety of awesome extras.
Click here to take a look.
Thanks to SaiyanPrincessX for the heads up on that.
It's going to be very cool (albeit expensive). I had sort of held out when it comes to buying Matrix stuff, in the hope that they'd do a kind of "everything you could possibly need" set. So at the moment, I only own The Animatrix and The Matrix Revolutions.
I'm going to be interested to take a look at a lot of the extras on those DVDs and the art assets will also be very worthwhile, I think.
Does anyone else plan on buying this set? It seems as though quite a few people have held off buying the individual DVDs, so that they could just go out and purchase the entire franchise (well, almost all of it) in one big set. Seems like a wise move, now that this set has been announced.
In other news, I'm doing a project for my advertising/media class at school. And basically it's supposed to involve teams of two.
The idea is that you have to come up with an advertising campaign for Jaffas (I don't know if America has them, but they're sort of like spherical M&M's, with a red shell). The maker is lauching a new fluro orange version and we have to come up with some exciting ideas to market it.
Basically it involves creating a television ad script (which my team has already done), a storyboard layout for the said ad and a 2,000 word report on our research findings.
However, it gets a bit sticky, because I'm in a team of three rather than two. This is because we had an odd number of people in our class.
Now, that might sound like a good thing. But it's not.
For one thing, they've added another 1,000 words onto the report just because there's three of us. Is it just me, or does that seem highly arbitrary? I mean, all of the teams will have a similar level of research. Even 2,000 words is quite a lot for a product with a relatively thin background.
In addition, we have to produce both a press and billboard ad (because we have one extra person). And we have to do a creative brief.
To add insult to injury, it was originally suggested that I'd write the report and the brief, Paul would create the storyboard and the visual components and Beam would be responsible for research.
As it turns out, it seems like I'm now responsible for the bulk of research, the report, the brief and the press ad.
How on earth did that happen?
I think I'm going to have to have a pretty frank discussion with those two on Tuesday, when we plan to have a meeting and discuss the progress of everything.
On that note, I want to ask you another question. Have you ever had to do a "group project" where you have ended up shouldering most of the burden? Perhaps you can share your experiences there. I tell you, it's not very much fun.
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