Ideas for Banner Contest - Please Help! - Page 4

Yeah I would say let's wait until the voting's done, and then depending on whether it's pics or paintings, or both, we let people use any combo of them (but if it's shows only than at least one pic from each of the 6) to represent those deities/characters whose recognition/devotee-base is not limited to any particular region of India. I am gonna guess and say that  those would be...
SiyaRam
RadheShyam
GauriShankar
Brahma-Saraswati
Ganpati
Durga
Hanuman
Narad (come on, he was in every show and even the celestials need a rep 😛)

This list is not based on anything personal, I just think the banner should include those characters who are most recognizable regardless of who was playing them. RadheShyam for their poses, the others for their distinct get-up.

^ I agree...but how about Lakshman? Can't leave out our Lakhan, he was there in Ramayan as much as Ram.😎

Lolz ok Lakhanji is in... and by the same token Balram 😛 Though, the former becomes recognizable in the vanvaas get-up, while Daau Bhaiya has no such distinguishing costume/prop for the uninitiated 🤔 So... hmmmm....

Originally posted by: lola610

Lolz ok Lakhanji is in... and by the same token Balram 😛 Though, the former becomes recognizable in the vanvaas get-up, while Daau Bhaiya has no such distinguishing costume/prop for the uninitiated 🤔 So... hmmmm....

Friends! We can think about making our banner as a slideshow of all the serials (old & new) as well as the corresponding God pictures! I mean, if the RS Ramayan picture is shown 1st, then we can place AS Ramayan after it, & then the picture of original Ram-Sita-Lakshman-Hanuman in the slideshow. & yes, I think that we should use the Rajyabhishek scene from both of RS & AS Ramayan & also in the original God picture, as it will contain all of the main characters! Then similarly we can place the RS SK picture (still thinking about the best picture of it) & then the similar one from JSK & then the original, and so on.
How does it sound friends?

OMG. I thought enough of brainstorming was done here in this thread 😆 as the poll was created. Good Janaki that you have kept that poll only for banner type selection and discussions are still going on here. Edited by ShivangBuch - 13 years ago

Urmila

That's a variation of what I was suggesting, and an equally brilliant suggestion.  If one does that, there's no limit on the #characters one can put.  Only problem w/ that, as was w/ what I suggested, is that animated banners are a big no-no.

On the other question of who absolutely must be there, why don't we define a minimum, rather than a maximum, of characters, and give the artists their discretion on the others?  Eg if we say just the trinity, or just the trinity + consorts, and for the rest, leave it up to the artists.  So one may put in those, and then do a Krishna-centric banner w/ various characters from the Dwapar yuga.  Or one may do a Treta yuga banner w/ Rama, Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman, et al.  Or one w/  Ganesh-ji, and so on.

Decide on the mandatory characters, and then leave the rest to the discretion of the artist.  When it comes to voting, if one doesn't like a banner which doesn't have, say, Krishna, just don't vote for it.  That  way, one may see a wide diversity in banners, and we might have 3 rounds  of voting, instead of the usual 2.

Just my $0.02.

That's a good idea too. So far, the mytho+God paintings is winning in the poll, so if we end up doing that, we can just let people decide which pics from mythos and which god paintings they use in their banner, and give a mandatory list of character that's a bare minimum. Edited by JanakiRaghunath - 13 years ago

Originally posted by: _Vrish_

Urmila

That's a variation of what I was suggesting, and an equally brilliant suggestion.  If one does that, there's no limit on the #characters one can put.  Only problem w/ that, as was w/ what I suggested, is that animated banners are a big no-no.

On the other question of who absolutely must be there, why don't we define a minimum, rather than a maximum, of characters, and give the artists their discretion on the others?  Eg if we say just the trinity, or just the trinity + consorts, and for the rest, leave it up to the artists.  So one may put in those, and then do a Krishna-centric banner w/ various characters from the Dwapar yuga.  Or one may do a Treta yuga banner w/ Rama, Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman, et al.  Or one w/  Ganesh-ji, and so on.

Decide on the mandatory characters, and then leave the rest to the discretion of the artist.  When it comes to voting, if one doesn't like a banner which doesn't have, say, Krishna, just don't vote for it.  That  way, one may see a wide diversity in banners, and we might have 3 rounds  of voting, instead of the usual 2.

Just my $0.02.

 

Okay guys, seems like we've pretty much reached a decision regarding the banner. Someone can go ahead and create the thread and I'll ask Mango to make it sticky. Edited by JanakiRaghunath - 13 years ago