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Creative Commons Filmmaking Remixes Modern Cinema

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lights-camera-collaboration dept.

mjeppsen writes, "Filmmaking experiment A Swarm Of Angels aims to create and distribute the first collaborative film released under a Creative Commons license. The project is using community participation and funding to make a film that would traditionally cost $3–4 million for a mere $1.75 million. The entire filmmaking process will be collaborative, from Wiki-based script creation to community voting on creative and marketing decisions. Is this just a scheme by the filmmakers to get funding for a pet project, or is it Hollywood's worst nightmare? More importantly, can 'open-source films' develop into a sustainable financial model?"

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  1. Not the first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're not the first to do such a thing, "Elephants dream" done by some dutch school is mostly open too: http://orange.blender.org/, and with a lot less budget. Although the people who worked on ithis were selected in advance.

  2. You have to pay by Adam+Hazzlebank · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary doesn't mention that you have to pay at least 25GBP to become a member.

  3. It's AUTEUR driven not wiki-driven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read a few posts you realise members get much more input into the filmmaking process, but that all the decisions are filtered by the filmmaking team, and they have veto power.

    So it is not a free for all of community ideas, but a member cluster that help influence and feedback on the directors vision. It plainly says he is writing the 2 initial scripts, but then members can present edits on a wiki and propose ideas/discussion on the forum.