Open Source Filmmaking article in The Daily Telegraph
There was an article on open source filmmaking in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday entitled ‘How audience power could shape the future of movie-making’. Projects such as Stray Cinema, A Swarm of Angels and The Digital Tipping Point were all included in this article. Snakes On A Plane was also mentioned – I guess this was a way of relating the practice back to an audience unfamiliar with the process.
As the open source methodologies are increasingly applied to business models and art projects, more niche communities of special interest form to support and contribute to these projects. However, the idea that these collaborative forms of production are making news in a daily British newspaper is exciting to me, as it reflects a growing interest from main stream media in our practices.
michelle (stray cinema)
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I don’t know if it’s related but I spoke to someone at the Telegraph a coupla weeks back, starting to prepare the ground for A Swarm of Angels offline strategy (it’s been purely online promotion so far).
It took about three years to get the newspapers understanding what my previous big project, onedotzero, was all about. But I think there’s a shallower learning curve for digital culture trends now. As I’m currently fond of saying: “This should be the year user-generated content grows up” – ‘open movie’ projects can be a bridge between traditional content and bottom up UGC.
You can check out my latest presentation on it here: Remixing Cinema presentation
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Hi Matt, thanks for your feedback.
Yes I also believe film projects provide a great opportunity to nurture relationships between different creative communities, and by making the film ‘open’, brings in a whole new community, and allows ideas such as open source & user generated content to be more accessible to a wider audience, which is very cool.
Good luck with the Telegraph pr!
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well, even though I am extremly happy about the coverage of OS film models one important question still is: how do you approach the quality standards of professional film production? Let’s face it: most USG content on You Tube et al is pretty bad!
What excites me about this film movement online, is the accessibility of film as a medium (a very powerful one at that), and the way it allows a different type of person tell a story. no doubt there will be alot of bad attempts, but arguably there will be more interesting unique stories emerging too.
You make a good point though, and during this time when we are swamped with information, the same question applies to anything on the internet. How do we find quality content?
However, just because it’s hard to find, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, I think we just need better methods of sorting through the crap.
I believe the reason open source film projects such as Stray Cinema, A Swarm of Angels and TDTP are gaining this type of recognition, is the artistic nature of these projects. we are not encouraging someone with a video clip of their cat coughing up a fur ball to submit their footage on our websites, a little more thought and creativity need to go into the contributions. and i think these contributions will be recognized by a more niche and discerning community than that of youtube. i guess this leads back to Matt’s comment earlier “‘open movie’ projects can be a bridge between traditional content and bottom up UGC”.
I like the bridge analogy – take the best of both worlds