Case Studies/FREE - THE JOURNEY - Revision history

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 == Overview ==
-The project was basically run by a core group of 3 people with a like minded vision of creating something out of the box. Keeping in mind the old adage "If you want something done right, do it yourself" a group us of decided to see this thing through by efficiently multi-tasking. Owing to our varied backgrounds as both musicians and creative professionals, we were able to strike a balance between delivery and deadlines. Many may wonder why deadlines for a creative non profit collaboration? Apart from the obvious effective usage of time and resources, we felt that unless you put a date to something, it very rarely comes out. This may involve some time sacrifice, but we found that the production was more cohesive since people were focused on an end product rather than on ideals. The deadline gave little room to go off on tangents. This however in no way impeded our creative abilities. If anything, we think that it juiced us up and made us think about solutions rather than problems.
+The project was basically run by a core group of 3 people with a like minded vision of creating something out of the box. Keeping in mind the old adage "If you want something done right, do it yourself" a group us of decided to see this thing through by efficiently multitasking. Owing to our varied backgrounds as both musicians and creative professionals, we were able to strike a balance between delivery and deadlines. Many may wonder why deadlines for a creative non profit collaboration? Apart from the obvious effective usage of time and resources, we felt that unless you put a date to something, it very rarely comes out. This may involve some time sacrifice, but we found that the production was more cohesive since people were focused on an end product rather than on ideals. The deadline gave little room to go off on tangents. This however in no way impeded our creative abilities. If anything, we think that it juiced us up and made us think about solutions rather than problems.
 The music itself was a breeze. The Plan - "Lets [http://www.rentittoday.com rent] a studio and jam!"  The recording room itself was only about 12 feet by 12 feet. Arjun, Aum, Rakesh and Boskey squeezed into the tiny space. I was in the mixing booth and Praveen in the vocal booth. The studio had a terrace with an amazing view of the backwaters and the city.
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 To be honest I don't think, any of us really had an idea of what we wanted to do or how we were going to accomplish a half way decent recording when we didn't even have material. Day One ended with us doing about 5 hours of recording. Day two started early and was much more productive than Day One. I think that the band was much more focused. We recorded for 4 straight hours with small breaks.
-Back in Chennai,India, we started the review of the material. No one had really heard anything till then.It was just suppose to be a fun thing with no serious expectations. So what did we have? 3 hours of coherent to vaguely coherent music. We didn't have a sound engineer at the time and didn't want to spend money on an experiment that was done more for fun than work or profit. We decided to edit the music ourselves. Now its important to remember that there wasn't really much we could do. The drums were already  mixed and the guitar/bass/key tones were already in place. The most we could do was some leveling and a bit of mastering. To make things interesting we added a couple of voice samples.We proceeded to cut them up into songs in our free time and completed the audio in 2 months. We had 1 hour of music - about 17 songs. The music however, sat on our hard drives for over a year and was previously never released.
+Back in Chennai, India, we started the review of the material. No one had really heard anything till then.It was just suppose to be a fun thing with no serious expectations. So what did we have? 3 hours of coherent to vaguely coherent music. We didn't have a sound engineer at the time and didn't want to spend money on an experiment that was done more for fun than work or profit. We decided to edit the music ourselves. Now its important to remember that there wasn't really much we could do. The drums were already mixed and the guitar/bass/key tones were already in place. The most we could do was some leveling and a bit of mastering. To make things interesting we added a couple of voice samples.We proceeded to cut them up into songs in our free time and completed the audio in 2 months. We had 1 hour of music - about 17 songs. The music however, sat on our hard drives for over a year and was previously never released.
-A friend of ours had referred me to Creative Commons, an online community that shares creative work - media that can be reused (depending on the licenses). So we got online and based on the themes of the songs, we downloaded video content from blip.tv that could be adapted. To our surprise,many of the videos looked like they had been shot / designed just for the music. In some cases we followed through on the concepts with multiple videos edited together around a central theme. Videos were edited to fit the music on Sony Vegas Pro. Now we've been Final Cut Pro users for the last 4 years, but when I used Vegas 9 I was astounded by its ease of use, flexibility and render speeds. I think that its by far the best editing software for quick turn around projects. We did our post production with After effects to give the product an original unifying look and reoptimized the videos to strike a good stream / quality balance.
+A friend of ours had referred me to Creative Commons, an online community that shares creative work - media that can be reused (depending on the licenses). So we got online and based on the themes of the songs, we downloaded video content from blip.tv that could be adapted. To our surprise,many of the videos looked like they had been shot / designed just for the music. In some cases we followed through on the concepts with multiple videos edited together around a central theme. Videos were edited to fit the music on Sony Vegas Pro. Now we've been Final Cut Pro users for the last 4 years, but when I used Vegas 9 I was astounded by its ease of use, flexibility and render speeds. I think that its by far the best editing software for quick turn around projects. We did our post production with After effects to give the product an original unifying look and re-optimized the videos to strike a good stream / quality balance.
 I would like to mention here that optimization was quite a task. First of all movies from blip.tv are  normally in flv format. We suggest converting them to MPEG2 for editing and upload. We scaled up the footage first to 720x480 using OJOsoft total video converter, but you can use any good converter. The results were encouraging. Very little pixelation or drop frames.
-The result of this effort is FREE - THE JOURNEY, a 15 song - 53 minute audio video compilation. We have released it on Facebook, Blip.tv and Youtube. This is the first time a Creative Commons project of this scale has been done from India and probably (we think) one of the bigger ones worldwide. In the process we have also launched our own youtube channel - Creative Collective TV
+The result of this effort is FREE - THE JOURNEY, a 15 song - 53 minute audio video compilation. We have released it on Facebook, Blip.tv and YouTube. This is the first time a Creative Commons project of this scale has been done from India and probably (we think) one of the bigger ones worldwide. In the process we have also launched our own YouTube channel - Creative Collective TV
 '''Music by LBG-Bonfire Collective Collaboration'''

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 The project was basically run by a core group of 3 people with a like minded vision of creating something out of the box. Keeping in mind the old adage "If you want something done right, do it yourself" a group us of decided to see this thing through by efficiently multi-tasking. Owing to our varied backgrounds as both musicians and creative professionals, we were able to strike a balance between delivery and deadlines. Many may wonder why deadlines for a creative non profit collaboration? Apart from the obvious effective usage of time and resources, we felt that unless you put a date to something, it very rarely comes out. This may involve some time sacrifice, but we found that the production was more cohesive since people were focused on an end product rather than on ideals. The deadline gave little room to go off on tangents. This however in no way impeded our creative abilities. If anything, we think that it juiced us up and made us think about solutions rather than problems.
-The music itself was a breeze. The Plan - "Lets rent a studio and jam!"  The recording room itself was only about 12 feet by 12 feet. Arjun, Aum, Rakesh and Boskey squeezed into the tiny space. I was in the mixing booth and Praveen in the vocal booth. The studio had a terrace with an amazing view of the backwaters and the city.
+The music itself was a breeze. The Plan - "Lets [http://www.rentittoday.com rent] a studio and jam!"  The recording room itself was only about 12 feet by 12 feet. Arjun, Aum, Rakesh and Boskey squeezed into the tiny space. I was in the mixing booth and Praveen in the vocal booth. The studio had a terrace with an amazing view of the backwaters and the city.
 To be honest I don't think, any of us really had an idea of what we wanted to do or how we were going to accomplish a half way decent recording when we didn't even have material. Day One ended with us doing about 5 hours of recording. Day two started early and was much more productive than Day One. I think that the band was much more focused. We recorded for 4 straight hours with small breaks.

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 .2.2.4 by MoleCabal,
 Clockfish by ExploderFace,
-Clouds by It2n,
+Pagen envy by Qutub, Abstract by Mengtime, The Red Dancer by Patsylai,
 Faces5, Faces9, Faces6 by Hmotro,
 peteherroncomArchivedVideos by Peteherron,

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 I would like to mention here that optimization was quite a task. First of all movies from blip.tv are  normally in flv format. We suggest converting them to MPEG2 for editing and upload. We scaled up the footage first to 720x480 using OJOsoft total video converter, but you can use any good converter. The results were encouraging. Very little pixelation or drop frames.
-The result of this effort is FREE - THE JOURNEY, a 15 song - 53 minute audio video compilation. We have released it on Facebook and Youtube. This is the first time a Creative Commons project of this scale has been done from India and probably (we think) one of the bigger ones worldwide. In the process we have also launched our own youtube channel - Creative Collective TV
+The result of this effort is FREE - THE JOURNEY, a 15 song - 53 minute audio video compilation. We have released it on Facebook, Blip.tv and Youtube. This is the first time a Creative Commons project of this scale has been done from India and probably (we think) one of the bigger ones worldwide. In the process we have also launched our own youtube channel - Creative Collective TV
 '''Music by LBG-Bonfire Collective Collaboration'''

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 == Media ==
-http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101072603292010 (Oct 7th -Dec 31st 2010)
+'''Facebook event :''' http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101072603292010 (Oct 7th -Dec 31st 2010)
 http://www.youtube.com/user/creativecollectivetv

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 == License Usage ==
-Most of the footage used has a CC-NC-SA license. Others had a commercial license So we decided to also release FREE under CC-NC-SA. The music is available on Jamendo under the same license.
+Most of the footage used have a CC by NC-SA license. Others had a commercial license So we decided to also release FREE under CC by NC-SA. The music is available on Jamendo under the same license.
 == Motivations ==

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 Executive Producers: Avneet Janakiram, Arjun Janakiram, Aum Janakiram
-Video Credits
+'''Video Credits'''
 Pondicherry -A Stop Motion Project by Shaun Dsa
 Source: Individual, The Ancestors Tale by Ian Elsner,

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 Recorded at  Studio, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
 '''Mixed at The Lab – Audio Production Unit, Chennai, India'''
 Mastered by Udaya Kiran, The Lab

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 Video Credits
 Pondicherry -A Stop Motion Project by Shaun Dsa
-Source: Individual
+Source: Individual, The Ancestors Tale by Ian Elsner,
+Ritournelle by Lachamplure,
-The Ancestors Tale by Ian Elsner
+.2.2.4 by MoleCabal,
-Ritournelle by Lachamplure
+Clockfish by ExploderFace,
-.2.2.4 by MoleCabal
+Clouds by It2n,
-Clockfish by ExploderFace
+Abstract by Mengtime,
-Clouds by It2n
+The Red Dancer by Patsylai,
-Abstract by Mengtime
+FractallucidScreens by Saquedon,
-The Red Dancer by Patsylai
+watermelon by VOYENKOMBI,
-FractallucidScreens by Saquedon
+Forest  by Streamu,
-watermelon by VOYENKOMBI
+Faces5, Faces9, Faces6 by Hmotro,
-Forest  by Streamu
+peteherroncomArchivedVideos by Peteherron,
-Faces5, Faces9, Faces6 by Hmotro
+MorningStorm by Apperceptions,
-peteherroncomArchivedVideos by Peteherron
+TimeLapse by JumperTV,
-MorningStorm by Apperceptions
+TimeLapseTest by Squampton,
-TimeLapse by JumperTV
+WhatKindOfShape by Gosmedia,
-TimeLapseTest by Squampton
+ParticlesSampleVideo by Lostmarbledvtemp,
-WhatKindOfShape by Gosmedia
+Y by Speculativism,
-ParticlesSampleVideo by Lostmarbledvtemp
+ScaryPumpkin by VideoJester,
-Y by Speculativism
+Grendel by Pacfolly,
-ScaryPumpkin by VideoJester
+FaceIt by Marquisdejolie,
-Grendel by Pacfolly
+SpiderWeb by ErinNealey,
-FaceIt by Marquisdejolie
+ScaryHole by AngryBeth,
-SpiderWeb by ErinNealey
+LaSpirale by Dziit,
-ScaryHole by AngryBeth
+GrooveUrbano by Fabioramosnascimento,
-LaSpirale by Dziit
+EPPElectroPlasmaPulse by MindsiMedia,
-GrooveUrbano by Fabioramosnascimento
+Water by DotAtelier,
-EPPElectroPlasmaPulse by MindsiMedia
+Animation by HassenMalek,
-Water by DotAtelier
+LINES by Mxpccw,
 Source Blip.tv