Dive into the archives.
- DIY, all Y
At DIY Days in Philadelphia, Lance Weiler‘s traveling post-distribution networking conference, I may be drinking too much of the haterade*, but what seems to be emerging is kind of three-path future for film.
Path one is gigantic studio films that cost a lot and still rely on a certain level of lockdown on copyright and general control of dissemination.
Path two is the small filmmaker with an emerging set of tools to reach an audience, whose work must be made cheaply and flexibly, and who must include an element of interactivity and audience participation.
Path three responds to an… [more]
- I want to rock and roll all night (and wake up in the gutter)
Ben from Shooting People was weighing the piracy issue a couple of weeks ago and its impact on independent filmmakers. The first dilemma is whether independent filmmakers can transition in the way indie bands have to be able to make money in other ways besides money for product transactions. In theory, this seems like it is the wave of the future- Robert Greenwald or Four Eyed Monsters-style. Filmmakers can, in theory, sell events versus selling DVDs, and potentially can make some money. No doubt touring in a bus is not as easy as having… [more]
- Content is King?- Panel at DIY Days takes on the outlets
Highlighting the eternal “this is my art” versus “this is a product” tension that is only getting more acute as online markets grow (and do not necessarily make more money per film), this discussion from the recent DIY Days isn’t exactly new info, but it does give a sense of what some issues are for filmmakers.
The somewhat deer-in-the-headlights initital reaction of the audience to Arin Crumley‘s demand to know what filmmakers need in the digital distribution realm I think is pretty reflective of where we’re at right now. Also, small point, I don’t think Current TV
- Having The Conversation in October
I’m super jealous of anyone who will get to attend The Conversation, not to be confused with a Francis Ford Coppola film, though it’s in San Francisco) a very cool conference on the ways new technologies are allowing filmmakers and others to connect to audiences- in other words, subject matter near and dear to the heart of this site. Hosted by Scott Kirsner from CinemaTech as well as Ken Goldberg (Berkeley Center for New Media), Tiffany Shlain (The Webby Awards), and Lance Weiler (you know, Lance Weiler)- it should be a fabulous time… [more]
- Crash Course
As we’ve moved increasingly into mobile technologies, English teachers have been aghast at the trend of shorter, even micro communiques with questionable spelling and grammar that have all but made the elegant postal letter obsolete.Cinema studies grads may be the next to gasp. If When the Internet and Film Collide is the guide to the new film ouvre, ‘mobile cinema’ looks a lot like what we formerly called a “promo clip”. On mobile, attention spans are short and pixels are few. Even on laptops with giant 14″ screens, on services such as MySpace or YouTube, viewers… [more]
