Open Sourced Video Production? = Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?
To be quite honest, this is the first time I've heard about the Open Source Cinema project. As stated on the the project's website, it's "a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age." I have to admit that I am very intrigued - an entire film project directed by one person, Brett Gaylor, and entirely made of contributions from individuals. Brett even has the script for the film on a wiki. The film is far from complete - but an interesting contribution to the project has emerged from a class, COM276 Intermedia, at Concordia University. Inspired by the work of Bob Sabiston (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly), the professor of the class spent 3 weeks with his students rotoscoping 1 - 3 seconds of the following concert video of Girl Talk:
Impressive eh? Individually, I think that the results of each student's experience with rotoscoping really varied in quality. However, together, the whole video really fits the mashed-up style of Girl Talk's sound. Impressive example of remix culture?
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Hey! Thanks for the comment. The film is actually quite close to completion - likely mid-february. We've been editing since September.
Jude, I hope this fits. Here are two high profile cases of open sources movie production:
1. A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members. People I know donated. http://aswarmofangels.com/
2. Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license. http://www.elephantsdream.org/
Thanks Kevin :) I am aware of those projects already. For those not in the know, here are a bunch of other crowdsourced/remixed creative projects on the internet:
Some other non-video/movie projects that would be interesting to look at are: A couple of music-oriented sites that might fit the bill: http://www.splicemusic.com/ http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/home.music http://www.jamglue.com/
Also (more visual art oriented): http://openstudio.media.mit.edu/ http://www.millionmasterpiece.com/
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Hey! Thanks for the comment. The film is actually quite close to completion - likely mid-february. We've been editing since September.
Best,
Brett
I am greatly looking forward to seeing the final product Brett. Good luck! :) jude
Hmmm....I wonder what would happen if open-source writers went on strike...?
Jude, I hope this fits. Here are two high profile cases of open sources movie production:
1. A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members. People I know donated.
http://aswarmofangels.com/
2. Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
http://www.elephantsdream.org/
Thanks Kevin :) I am aware of those projects already. For those not in the know, here are a bunch of other crowdsourced/remixed creative projects on the internet:
Some other non-video/movie projects that would be interesting to look at are:
A couple of music-oriented sites that might fit the bill:
http://www.splicemusic.com/
http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/home.music
http://www.jamglue.com/
Also (more visual art oriented):
http://openstudio.media.mit.edu/
http://www.millionmasterpiece.com/
nice work you guys.. This is really making good use of rotoscoping...
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