I need a thorough researcher to compile the history and background of the Dakar rally
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"We invite you to join us in our pursuit of the odd corners of history, the celebration of the strange, and the art of storytelling for tellers of true tales."
For more information about Odd Salon you can visit their website https://www.oddsalon.com/
More than just someone who will collect basic facts for a book report, what we want is a person who can curate the rare facts by reading through the legendary and mythological tales of long lost Dakar lore, to suss out those golden nuggets of 'wow, that was both incredible, could that really have happened? and, also, the incredibly odd'.
- research the history of the Dakar
- with an emphasis on odd, obscure, anecdotal and legendary facts & tales that are impossible to believe but really did happen. It is totally okay to deep-dive into specific stories of single-person, single-happenstance events, as long as those deep-dives are sufficiently compelling
- with a specific interest in the Turkish Dakar team, and the history of Turkish participation in the Dakar, this is relevant because of my own personal story and connection, which will also become a part of the narrative
- Generally, the focus should be placed more on the antique and early years of WWII Era or earlier (to sufficiently build that base of ancient understanding) with then lesser and medium attention devoted to how the event has evolved, and what it is today
- beyond this factual research, we are importantly also looking for:
a cultivation of stories that congeal around a specific narrative or common theme, or small collection of related themes.
-visually evocative imagery: images that shock and surprise, exalt emotion, and support the factual artefacts of the spoken content
What we are not seeking is for the person to invest extra time into:
- authoring the specific language of the talk
- or to compose the specific slides, slide sequence, or presentation keynote deck
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instead, we only need for you to congeal the raw materials all together into one place
with references and hyperlinks, in a usable way so that it would be possible to build chosen material from that curated raw content
The research would need to be completed over the course of October, with exact timings and rate to be discussed.
Katie W.
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I am afraid I have a few questions as part are unclear -
1. You are looking for 'the history of the Dakar' but say 'the history of Turkish participation because of my own personal story will also become a part of the narrative'. Do we also have to write your story, or have you written it?
2. you talk about 'visually evocative imagery'. Do we need to source this as well or do you provide it?
3. 'timings and rate to be discussed' but you offer a fixed price for this job. Which is it? £59 or flexible and open for discussion?
4. How long does this need to be? 700 - 800 like the others?
If you could clear up these points that would be great as I find it impossible to send a bid until I know what I am bidding on.
Thank you
Thank youKatie W.07 Oct 2018Hi, I will try to answer your questions as best as I can
1) No, you will not have to write the story yourself. The researcher's role will be to research, and compile the research in a way that it will be easy for us to write the story from afterwards.
2) Yes, you should source the images during the course of this project. An Odd Salon talk is presented with most emphasis on the speaker's narrative, while supported by a projected back drop of very large slide images.
3) This is the first time I have used PPH so I selected the 'intermediate' option when creating this project, which then generated this price. Depending on the length of the project and the experience of the freelancer, the exact price can be discussed. I'm not sure how to change it from being a 'fixed price' on this project.
4) Not sure what you mean by the numbers 700-800...
Hope this cleared your questions up :)Jill V.07 Oct 2018Thanks for your answer. This came up under 'writing project', so I thought it was research and write, not only research Thanks for your reply. The 700/800 words was how long the other articles on the site seem to be, as I thought you wanted a writer.