Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 21:54:45 GMT 10
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Today's Challenge celebrates the Harry Potter fandom on Youtube, most notable for one particularly famous video...
Potter Puppet Pals' The Mysterious Ticking Noise was one of the first Harry Potter parodies to go viral and was among the all time most-viewed videos on Youtube about a decade ago. Today it has almost 200 million views... and we're about to do our part to nudge that counter a little bit further.
For today's Challenge your Side will need to recreate the entirety of this video.
When each player starts the Challenge, they will need to post all the lines spoken by their character/s throughout the video, with each line in a separate post. Your appointed Side Prefect will be responsible for all the Sound Effects and instead of regular lines they will need to post every other sound in the video (tick, tock, boom, tap, etc).
Of course, there is a catch: you will all need to time your posts carefully so that when the entire Side's efforts are put together and their starting times aligned, you will produce the full script of the video... in the correct sequence, without any character moving ahead of the others or falling behind.
For example, if Peter and Dolores were cast in the roles of Prefect (Sound Effects) and Snape respectively, part of their Challenge submissions might look like this:
![Peter Pettigrew Avatar](https://i.imgur.com/AMDhl1O.png)
![Dolores Umbridge Avatar](https://i.imgur.com/X06HCFV.png)
![Peter Pettigrew Avatar](https://i.imgur.com/AMDhl1O.png)
![Dolores Umbridge Avatar](https://i.imgur.com/X06HCFV.png)
In this example, Peter began the Challenge at 8:00:00am and Dolores began the challenge at 8:00:00pm. If both those times are taken as the start of the video's reenactment, the script produced would look like this (you can see the timestamp including seconds if you hold your mouse over the time given for each quote):
03:10 Peter - Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
03:29 Dolores - Snape, Snape, Severus Snape.
03:44 Peter - Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
04:07 Dolores - Snape, Snape, Severus Snape.
When judging your Side's full reenactment, the Sound Effects posts by your Side Prefect will be taken as the baseline against which all your other posts are measured - anything else that whould be heard simultaneously with a Sound Effects post in the video must come before the next Sound Effects post does, in your combined reenactment. So in the above example, if Dolores' last post was made at 8:03:37 instead of 8:04:07, it would come it at 03:37 of the overall reenactment, which is before Peter's Sound Effects move on to the next section. It would therefore be considered a mistake.
Note that the Prefect can only post up to eight words at a time, which is enough for four beats of the video's regular rhythm, or one rotation of Snape's famous line. This limit applies to the sections of your reenactment that correspond to the start of the video through 1:11, and again from 1:20 to 1:45.
However, there are two points in the reenactment where the Sound Effects will be limited to just fours words at a time (two beats): the first is in the fastest section of the video, from 1:11 to 1:20; the second is from 1:45 onward, when the beats become 'tap's rather than 'tick's. This shift is not intended to be annoying or confusing - quite the opposite actually, as these sections should be easier for you to get right if they are broken down into shorter pieces.
As this is still a non-live Challenge, every player on your Side can attempt the Challenge at a time that suits them (hence the need for time adjustments). To begin your attempt, you do not need to join a Member Group. Simply make a post in your Challenge thread in your private
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The timestamp on the post containing this image will be taken as your personal starting time, to eventually be aligned with the starting times for all of your Side Buddies. (For the sake of what little remains of your Ministers' collective sanity, we humbly request that you post the Starting Image right at the start of an hour, if possible.) Essentially, you'll need to break down the video into units, and after your Prefect posts the Sound Effects for that unit, everyone else will need to post their lines from that unit before the Prefect posts the Sound Effects for the next unit.
Once your full Side has played the Challenge, we will align your starting times to calculate the exact length of your reenactment, from the aligned starting times to last/latest post made. We will then look over your reenactment as a whole. Any lines which do not fall between the correct Sound Effects posts will be deemed timing mistakes and will receive a 30 second penalty added to your Side's reenactment length.
We will be providing you with a script of the lines for every role, so there is no reason to get them wrong. But if you somehow manage to do so anyway, we'll also give 30 second penalties for any lines that are incomplete or incorrect. It is possible for a single posted line to receive both kinds of penalties (for a total of 60 seconds), and this will also be the case for any lines from the video script which are missing entirely from your reenactment.
The Side whose reenactment length is shortest once any penalties are added will win Immunity and avoid Magical Council this round. The Side whose reenactment takes longer once penalties are added will attend Magical Council tomorrow night and vote out a Side Buddy. There are also House Points up for grabs: 5 for any player who incurs no penalties, and 10 more for any PBvO pair who happen to both play the same role, for separate Sides.
One last thing: we will be making a Discussion Thread on your Side Board for this Challenge. Within that thread (and only within that thread), you may strategise together and plan your approach to the Challenge. The only restriction is that once you post the Starting Image and begin playing the Challenge, you may no longer post in the Discussion Thread. Anybody who attempts to discuss the Challenge in any way outside of the designated Discussion Thread, or after they have posted the Starting Image, will be disqualified and every one of the lines they were responsible for posting will be deemed both incorrect and mistimed.
You must complete this Challenge by 8:00pm AEST tomorrow (Wednesday). Yes, earlier than normal, again.
Do not discuss the Challenge outside of your Side's designated Discussion Thread.
Do not discuss the Challenge outside of your Side's designated Discussion Thread.
If you have questions, feel free to ask them below or in the Discussion Thread. We'll also post the scripts for you there.
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