Since we've just (sometime this year) passed our tenth anniversary - and the tenth anniversary of the Oddlots homepage rebooting is coming up in March - I was thinking:
Could we make a documentary about the PPC community?
I'm thinking something that could go up on Youtube (not the TV, obviously), basically outlining a) what the PPC is and b) our history. Not the history of the organisation, though - I'm thinking specifically of the Boards, Chats, Wiki and Websites.
I'm imagining 'interviews' with people from across the history of the PPC - most likely current Boarders/Chatters, but from every year we've been around. (I say 'interviews' because they'd likely either be Boarder X giving a short spiel, or interviewer/Boarder videos intercut despite being in wildly different places) They wouldn't even have to be videos - audio with generic silhouette pictures would work, or even other people reading out a written statement.
I'm also thinking we might be able to get a brief clip out of some departed members - people like, say, Miss Cam, who is still active in fandom, or July, or - hey, anything's possible - Jay or Acacia themselves.
I'm not thinking high-budget. I'm considering getting former-Agent Dafydd to act as host (or in other words, me in one of my cloaks), and basically cut between the aforementioned interviews, narration-to-camera, and stills of certain things (websites, for instance). The one thing I'd like but can't actually do myself - other than interviews - is drawings for some events (Ypur invasions, perhaps?), but that's filed under 'would work without it'.
I'd think we'd want it to be primarily positive - so we wouldn't devote large chunks of time to, say, the Thalia Weaver Incident, or the various IRC-related dramas - but also an honest portrayal of Who We Are and Why We're Here.
And starting with a reading from Rambling Band, of course.
But... what does anyone else think? Is there anyone who'd contribute to it - video, audio, written statement or (possibly) art? Or am I just throwing petals into the wind?
(... is that a saying? It feels like a saying...)
hS