Music idea

[F Horn of Valere]

I was thinking, what do you think about having a Musical of the Month? I don't know what would be best for this... a review would be nice, but that would turn into a lot of work, and as slackers stop doing it, it would put a greater workload on staff filling in, unless set up differently. 

 

At first I was thinking about a cagematch of sorts as a one-time thing-- each week vote for your favorites, with musicals seeded out in brackets, but Musical of the Month also flows really well off the tongue! That, and the cage-match might be difficult because not everyone has seen a lot that would probably be included. Though maybe that would be ok? I don't know, I'm just typing to myself.

 

Any thoughts?

[Jeannaisais]

Or, you could simply have one person post a topic with a musical as its title and then its a thread of music videos?

[F Horn of Valere]

ooo that is a good idea. Welcome to the BotRH Theater!

[The Bard Babe]

:O

 

YES YES YES!!!!!!!

 

I'll help, I'll do things! Yay for musicals!!

[F Horn of Valere]

Maybe we could do one of these per month, and have a cage-match at the end of the year! (and we could just have two fewer this year than normal, so it is still an even number)

[Jeannaisais]

Perfect! Feel free to get it started whenever

[BridMorgan]

Nice idea.  I love muscials...well the old ones anyway.

[F Horn of Valere]

Jea, can I make a sticky for requests?

[Jeannaisais]

Yep!

[The Bard Babe]

Yayyyy!

[F Horn of Valere]

I'm going to put up the first one soon.

 

I was planning on basically just having a short synopsis (paragraph?), followed by embedded videos showing each song, in order.

 

Is that too basic? Does it need anything else, or is that fine on its own?

[The Bard Babe]

That sounds fine Fudgy (yes I am sticking with that).

 

Anything else we want to add I'm sure will come out in the discussion.

[F Horn of Valere]

Working on the first one. Unfortunately, I could only get two videos to embed per post... so if there is no workaround to this problem, which is better:

 

1. Have a lot of posts before any discussion can begin. (The one I'm working on would have 9 posts with only two songs per post...) I can also disable my signature during these, but they will be broken up, and being divided would look pretty crappy.

 

2. Have one post, but not embed any and have links for each one. A lot cleaner, but also would kill participation... a lot of people would be fine pressing play, but don't feel like following 18 links.

 

Not sure how best to proceed if I can't get it to work.

[dicetosser1]

you could embed the 2 in one post then have some discussion about those 2  do the next 2 and so on

[Jeannaisais]

We're working on it with the admins so we'll figure it out soon

[BFG]

Or just pick the best 2 songs?  I'm not sure how many new people would actually watch xteen videos, limiting it to 2 may mean that people who don't normally watch musicals may participate.  More videos could be introduced as the discussion progresses.

[F Horn of Valere]

Technical issues now resolved.... I will finish this tonight after finishing a paper for school.