Comments on: Open-Source Film Making Contest, Screening, More Productions https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-film-making-contest-screening-more-productions/2006/11/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Open Source https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-film-making-contest-screening-more-productions/2006/11/26/comment-page-1#comment-441807 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:21:33 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=648#comment-441807 Here a new up coming open source video project:
Open Source Mozilla Film

]]> By: valentin spirik https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-film-making-contest-screening-more-productions/2006/11/26/comment-page-1#comment-10866 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:51:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=648#comment-10866 Thanks for reading and taking your time to comment! This was really meant as a starting point for a general discussions about open-source film making since there seem to be a lot of initiatives, at the same time some of these projects might not even know about the others (and everyone reinvents the wheel on their own, makes the same mistakes etc.).

The more I think about what an open-source film might be the more questions I have about how-to best define it. There are many similarities with open-source software, but there are also quite a few differences. One is of course that the “source” for a movie is much larger in terms of MBs (or rather GBs). In that context I can see why Stray Cinema at the moment only offers a lower resolution version in the first part of the competition.

Your concept of having the editor/editing in the centre of the open-source film making process seems like a very good idea to me. It will be interesting to see how the job of the 21st century film editor will change once “remixing” becomes more mainstream… Having seen all these fake/recut trailers I think that those trailers really were trailers for movies/a new genre to come: the remix feature film – and here open-source film making makes a lot of sense…

]]> By: Michelle (Stray Cinema) https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-film-making-contest-screening-more-productions/2006/11/26/comment-page-1#comment-10568 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:06:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=648#comment-10568 derives from the term used to describe free software, and any project, similar to ours, is simply drawing on the ideas surrounding this movement, because we believe in these same ideals. I think it would be fair to say that most of the projects mentioned here, in some way, do not abide by all of the rules and regulations set out by the Open Source Initiative. I believe this is because we are dealing with the open source ethos, and applying it to a different form. I think an important aspect of the open source movement, and one which we have embraced in our own project Stray Cinema, is easy access to malleable data and information for the wider community online. We want to provide as many people as possible with the opportunity to obtain our footage and have a say over what story is told with it, using the all powerful medium of film. Because we provide over an hours worth of raw footage for people to remix, it is for practical reasons that we have decided to make it available for download at low resolution. Many people do not have access to high speed broadband (ha, for example it is especially difficult for me living in NZ with our current broadband situation, to download large quantities of data). For this reason it is vital we make the footage available as small files (total 130MBs). Another important component to the Stray Cinema project is that asides from being an open source film, it is also a competition, with the top five films (voted by our online community) shown at a London screening. We have made it a competition, to provide an incentive for our users to bring back the films they have made with our footage, by uploading their version back onto our website. To make it fair for all participants in the Stray Cinema competition, all film submissions should be the same quality in resolution. However in saying all that, I take onboard your comments “At what resolution do you have to provide your source footage for a movie to be open-source?”. There is also the issue on whether or not our footage should be used after distribution for commercial purposes. I think these are interesting points, and perhaps ones we may re-consider for Stray Cinema 2008. We are certainly happy for people to use our footage for purposes outside of our competition, under the creative comments licence we have used (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0). Thinking out loud now, perhaps it would be worth making the footage available at high resolution for anyone who wishes to use it, but then have the low resolution footage available for participants in our competition…hmmm certainly food for thought. I would like to think that Stray Cinema takes an open approach to the growth and future vision of the project, and we are always keen for feedback and ideas. So for that thank-you and I also welcome any other feedback from our community on these subjects. See ya.]]> Hello, I am Michelle Hughes, co-founder of http://www.straycinema.com. First and foremost, an interesting read you have here!

(Sorry to state the obvious) of course ‘open source’ derives from the term used to describe free software, and any project, similar to ours, is simply drawing on the ideas surrounding this movement, because we believe in these same ideals. I think it would be fair to say that most of the projects mentioned here, in some way, do not abide by all of the rules and regulations set out by the Open Source Initiative. I believe this is because we are dealing with the open source ethos, and applying it to a different form.

I think an important aspect of the open source movement, and one which we have embraced in our own project Stray Cinema, is easy access to malleable data and information for the wider community online. We want to provide as many people as possible with the opportunity to obtain our footage and have a say over what story is told with it, using the all powerful medium of film. Because we provide over an hours worth of raw footage for people to remix, it is for practical reasons that we have decided to make it available for download at low resolution. Many people do not have access to high speed broadband (ha, for example it is especially difficult for me living in NZ with our current broadband situation, to download large quantities of data). For this reason it is vital we make the footage available as small files (total 130MBs).

Another important component to the Stray Cinema project is that asides from being an open source film, it is also a competition, with the top five films (voted by our online community) shown at a London screening. We have made it a competition, to provide an incentive for our users to bring back the films they have made with our footage, by uploading their version back onto our website. To make it fair for all participants in the Stray Cinema competition, all film submissions should be the same quality in resolution.

However in saying all that, I take onboard your comments “At what resolution do you have to provide your source footage for a movie to be open-source?”. There is also the issue on whether or not our footage should be used after distribution for commercial purposes.

I think these are interesting points, and perhaps ones we may re-consider for Stray Cinema 2008. We are certainly happy for people to use our footage for purposes outside of our competition, under the creative comments licence we have used (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0).
Thinking out loud now, perhaps it would be worth making the footage available at high resolution for anyone who wishes to use it, but then have the low resolution footage available for participants in our competition…hmmm certainly food for thought.

I would like to think that Stray Cinema takes an open approach to the growth and future vision of the project, and we are always keen for feedback and ideas. So for that thank-you and I also welcome any other feedback from our community on these subjects.

See ya.

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