Bench Marks for Fundable Films.

By March 30 2007 users should be able to:

Create an account
verify email address
Login to account
manage and edit profile
view RPs
view FF Blog


Registration should include:

Name:
E-mail:
Zip/Posal Code:
Display name:
Are You Human: Captcha
Terms and Conditions Check Box

Profile Management Should include:

Name:
Gender:
Date of Birth:
Picture:
Bio:
Website URL:
Profile Picture:
Favorite Genre:
Favorite Indie Film:
Favorite Director:
Occupation:

There are a couple of drop down menus here that I'll need help populating.

Favorite Genre: SciFi, Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Animated Kids, Animated Adult, Exotica, Educational, Documentary,

Occupation: Writer, Film Maker, Director, Producer, Distributor, Film Student, Effects Specialist, CG, Animator, Actor, Editor, Non film related,

If I've missed something please feel free to add it. I'd also like to hear comments about the above listed benchmark requirements.

Once this list is complete I'll be adding it to the Wiki!

Posted: March 22, 2007, 8:23 am

I think the drop downs should be tag based - at least that should be the goal. I like del.icio.us use of tags - offering suggestions as you are typing, it helps keep things somewhat standard while allowing the crowd to build the categories.

Posted: March 22, 2007, 8:28 am

Yea I can digg that Don!

Posted: March 22, 2007, 8:40 am

Sorting the categories/tags by popularity would be a good way to keep that in check.

Posted: March 23, 2007, 9:17 am

Agreed - have you ever seen a good way to disambiguate a tag that is very similar to another? So for instance, when someone puts in "explosion", the system notes that there is already an "explosions" tag that is in popular use and asks the user if he/she wants to use that tag instead? I have a couple of ways to do that with ColdFusion, using a Verity search index, but I don't know if there are any OS indexing engines available for PHP.

Posted: March 28, 2007, 8:39 pm