Looking for a Movie/Television/Video Game reviewer.
 

I'm looking for a freelancer to write long form reviews for the imfdb. They should have a firearm angle but most importantly should be entertaining. I know we have a few writers on the forum...

email wreelnilsu@garrifulio.mailexpire.com with a sample of your work if you're interested...

So you want someone to review the articles on the site? I like the idea, but hopefully we'll all be able to control our egos if our pages are given low scores. But it'd be cool if at the top of the pages a reviewer could rate the quality of the article from 1-100, which could direct viewers to better quality pages and help them avoid the crap ones.

Or I could just have the wrong idea entirely.

I think bunni is talking about reviewing the actual movie/videogame/show, not it's page

I have some problems with grammar, so I might not consider this job

What are you're talk about! We all have perfect grammars,

- How long do you mean by long form?

- New media, or old as well?

- What would be the frequency?

I say we have some sort of tryouts, people submit reviews and admistrators can decide which are good enough to be posted.

Will the review be added to the bottom of the page? If so should there be a standard page setup with the directors and actors names listed at the top of the page with a brief synopsis of the movie.

I have done that on the pages I have setup but it is not listed as a standard for page setups. We have so many different ways of doing the pages. I know that we will be going through some more growing pains but the site will be just that much better.

I'm really not quite sure yet. I was thinking the reviews would be on a separate section - and the goal is not to duplicate the content of our pages, which we try and keep impartial.

I have had some people submit new media/youtube style reviews, I'm not opposed to that.

The question is WHY? And how would they get paid? Is there a revenue stream if IMFDB has reviews?

I'm not thrilled with reviews because it's a whole nuther layer of stuff that has nothing to do with documenting firearms appearances in films.

But if Bunni has a brilliant master plan that he has not revealed to us, then I'm all ears! :D

MPM2008, could you please, tell use who's the woman in your Avatar?

Is this a paid position?

Very Cool. I will be looking forward to seeing this and any other items implemented to IMFDB to make it even better than it is. The site is growing faster than I thought it would and it will change more over time. I remember when IMDB was completely different and now you have reviews and links to sites selling those same movies. We just keep moving forward.

I can do it for FREE because i've got so much pics and information from IMFDB, and i am still very thankful about it. However, my grammar sucks, nobody likes my postings...

So....... WHATEVER.

Good luck with good reviewer :)

Do you need real-life experience with firearms to be paid for this review position? I'd like to write reviews for the games I've made pages for or contributed heavily towards. Just look to the pages now for S.W.A.T. 4, Silent Hill 3, or No One Lives Forever for samples of my work.

When I said "new media," I just meant stuff as it comes out. A review of the Expendables, for example, and not one of Rambo II. That could take forever.

I know that I have asked about starting an Official IMFDB page in order to counter act the MW2 playing idiot who is using that title.


As far as what i would want that page for would be things like film reviews, things like brief informational pieces like MPM's history of the M16 in cinima, site updates and soforth. Unfortunatly Bunni is the only one with the Authority to say yes and I don't have the money to get such a project past the pipe dream stage.

As far as writing up traditional reviews go I am not very good at typing.

The why is that I'm trying to create content we'll enjoy reading - and bring a unique opinion/perspective/analysis to film that the mainstream media is never going to see/appreciate. The pay would be per word, and freelance, I couldn't possibly hire any permanent employees.

The reviews would be separate from the wiki - but the goal is to create content that we'll find interesting and that wouldn't otherwise ever have a voice.

The most interesting application so far is from an officer who has seen several deployments. This is someone whos perspective we may find interesting.

It's really an experiment - we've grown to a size now where I think we have some really incredible talent in our readership - talent that spans throughout the entertainment industry and beyond. Let's stretch our legs a bit and see what we can do. :)

very cool....choose him, no need to look farther lol

It could be interesting, but the idea sounds rather vague to me (as it's been put forth). To make sure I'm clear...are we going for something similar to this:

http://redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/ai...?ReviewCatID=1

I think that before we take submissions, it would be a good idea to figure out what we're looking for, and devise an appropriate format.

I've looked at those reviews and some of them at least had one or two incorrect gun identifications.

I would agree that if Bunni is going to be holding auditions, we should at least be made aware of the format s/he expects to see so it'll be a fair competition.

I'm used to cataloguing firearms for games in the page format, but I can adapt to a prose-format instead, if Bunni comes clear on what s/he wants.

Right, but that's irrelevant. The question is, is their format (or something like it) what we're going for?

Also another question is a writer's style. Are all the reviewers expecting to be serious reviews of said film or can they be humorous? Also is there a range on what is acceptable humor because I've been turning into someone of a critic on bad movies and my taste in reviews is like the humor in Crack.com.

Well let's try it and see how it goes. A range test I suppose.

That's basically my attitude. I'm open to suggestions on the formatting though. A separate section seems appropriate.

I assume you mean cracked.com?

I believe that is called "fail"

But the question remains; what is it you want us to focus on? Is it how well the guns in the game/movie/TV show emulate the real-life ones? How well the actors/ingame characters (don't) handle them? Or something else? I'm sure many of us don't "thrive on vague objectives," as Scott Adams puts it.