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Location: Australia, Victoria
As people that regular the IRC may probably know, I've been crapping on about advertising the site in my schools newsletter, I had recently emailed the school about the possibility and... I am pleasantly surprised.
Thomas
The rates for students are as follows
1 week$5.00
3 weeks $10.00
1 Term$40.00
1 Year$140.00
You need to send a copy of your add via Jpeg or Word document and it is given to the Principal for approval
Thanks
Fiona
The rates apply for one square out of six on an A4 piece of paper, the rates go up linearly for every square taken up. I'm not willing to go beyond one square at this moment simply because I am testing waters, I am planning on investing in a 3 week term initially.
The only thing that has me worried is that the Principal checks the ad, but I mostly suspect it is mostly a porn check, if worst comes to worst, I'll reassure her that the site is worth putting in the newsletters advertisment section.
However, one part has me worried the most, how exactly will we advertise the site?
This is the reason why I ask.
I am asking for people to come forwards and suggest images that follow a 640*640 (Or any other resolution that follows the ratio) image. I suggest the image follows the logo section in the encoder guidelines vaguely, obviously suited for an advertisement.
The school prints its newsletters in greyscale but does email electronic versions to people that subscribe electronically.
TODO: Provide an example advertisement that would follow the so called guidelines.
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All the families in the school is the supposed idea.
But the students that actually bother to read the newsletter (From hereon called the intellectual ones, hehehe) are the main target, so I estimate 60% of families (Not accounting for students that just hand the newsletter automatically to their parents).
It is highly worth nothing that these are just raw estimates though.
I always had the impression that Flygon was a lot older, like about to graduate from university.
On a similar note, if this idea works out and you matriculate, consider posting flyers around your university, or actually buying ad space again if you feel like it.
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I'm not in a University, actually.
I'm in my final year at a High School; whatever gave you the impression I was older than 18? Out of curiosity.
Also, fliers aren't really allowed at the school (Though I should double check), I'd assume because they want to make money out of the newsletter advertisements.
You'd be amazed at how much decent grammar and coherent posts add to your apparent age online.
How big is the school? And what's the goal of the advertisement -- just to make more people aware of TASing? Do we have something in particular we want users to do, or do we just want them to check out the site and movies?
You might consider getting ahold of the journalism group and asking if they'd be interested in doing an article on TASes. That'd be cheaper and probably more effective than an ad.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
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The school is relatively large (The largest High School in Melton, almost 1000 students... I say this now because I plan to distribute both scans and the electronic e-mail to TASVideos as proof of advertisements on the newsletter).
The goal of the advertisements for me is to spread awareness of TASVideos, the implementation of the streaming media links is a wonderful addition to compliment this, hopefully, this will encourage more members to join and so on. I just hope that it actually makes some productivity happen, most of the purpose of the advertising trial, to see if it is a good idea.
About getting a hold of a journalism group, I am unsure what you mean. Do you mean contacting the local newspapers or the online media? I'd consider doing the former but chances are, they'll just think I am another teenage Call of Duty 4 obsessed junkie.
Online media... eh, I doubt I'd be able to make any impact with anywhere I'd try to contact (Nor would I actually know what to do, journalism isn't exactly my area of expertise).
However, if I have hopelessly misinterpreted the question, please forgive me.
About getting a hold of a journalism group, I am unsure what you mean. Do you mean contacting the local newspapers or the online media? I'd consider doing the former but chances are, they'll just think I am another teenage Call of Duty 4 obsessed junkie.
I'm pretty sure he meant your high school newspaper... which your school doesn't have, judging from your response.
Also, since gamers are (edit: according to certain politicians) worse than biker gangs in Australia, maybe you should sell TASvideos t-shirts, and advertise them as a way of increasing one's street cred?
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Dromiceius wrote:
Also, since gamers are (edit: according to certain politicians) worse than biker gangs in Australia, maybe you should sell TASvideos t-shirts, and advertise them as a way of increasing one's street cred?
Channel 7, 9, 10 and ABC (Not the American ABC obviously) and the SBS wish to have a conversation with you.
About TASVideos T-Shirts, I would very happily wear them but in terms of being able to sell them, I doubt my prospects of being able to do that. Not even taking Small Business Management last year helped me too much.
But I would very happily wear one, even if my opportunities to advertise it are rare (The school as an obsessively strict uniform policy).
About TASVideos T-Shirts, I would very happily wear them but in terms of being able to sell them, I doubt my prospects of being able to do that. Not even taking Small Business Management last year helped me too much.
But I would very happily wear one, even if my opportunities to advertise it are rare (The school as an obsessively strict uniform policy).
Yeah... I figured you could make, say, 20 in a reasonable men's size and give them to your friends to wear at conventions and LAN parties or whatever, but after looking into it, the prices for this service seem exorbitant at best. Phooey.
TASVideos T-shirts would run into a common problem for videogame-based entertainment (including machinima, sprite comics, etc.): all of the imagery we would want to use is copyrighted.
And yeah, making your own T-shirts isn't as cheap as you might think it would be.
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The advertisments are on an approximately 100:105 ratio (Or 1:1.05, whatever).
This is to help those that may want to make the advertisement, I sadly didn't ask to get the electronic newsletter in time so the scan will have to do.
Anyway, is anyone here willing to try and design an advertisement? Because I really really don't think I have the skills.
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Move to page 14 for the advertisements.
Look, people, either you suggest to me how to make the advertisement (Or make one yourself) or I make one solo, and doubtless it will be unoptimal.
Believe it or not, I need your help.
Ever wish you knew in advance how everything around you would happen?
To the tiniest detail
Ever wish you could change what you knew would happen?
Subtly manipulating seemingly irrelevant, chaotic factors
Ever wish you could go back and fix that mistake?
And in case you fail to fix it, try again
And again
Ever wish you could have made something just perfect?
Perfectly coreographed
To the tiniest detail
This is TASVideos, to video games.
tl, dr!
EDIT: Inspired by the (trailer thereof and the) movie Primer, which I enjoyed recently.
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Bisqwit I could just hug you.
Time to see how to fit that into the newsletter while still being readable... hopefully the laser printers they use won't go low on ink.
Ever wish you knew in advance how everything around you would happen?
To the tiniest detail
Ever wish you could change what you knew would happen?
Subtly manipulating seemingly irrelevant, chaotic factors
Ever wish you could go back and fix that mistake?
And in case you fail to fix it, try again
And again
Ever wish you could have made something just perfect?
Perfectly coreographed
To the tiniest detail
This is TASVideos, to video games.
The advertisments are on an approximately 100:105 ratio (Or 1:1.05, whatever).
This is to help those that may want to make the advertisement, I sadly didn't ask to get the electronic newsletter in time so the scan will have to do.
Anyway, is anyone here willing to try and design an advertisement? Because I really really don't think I have the skills.
