Film: The Digital Future is a one-day conference presented by South West Screens on December 11th, 2007.
‘Film: The Digital Future’ will bring a pool of experts to the region to explain how best to embrace and exploit the ongoing digital developments within the production, distribution, exhibition and marketing sectors.
Following on from ‘Funding your Feature’, the informative South West Screen film finance conference of March 2007, ‘Film: The Digital Future’ promises to be both compelling and entertaining, and of course immensely informative.
Speakers confirmed from companies / organisations including the UK Film Council, Arts Alliance, Content Republic, City Screen and Hammer. Quite simply, there is no better way to get the lowdown on the changing landscape of digital film.
via Projector Films.
The second part of the Video Vortex Conference initialized by the Institute of Network Cultures will take place on January 18th and 19th in Amsterdam. Registration has opened!
In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. What are artists and activists responses to the popularity of user-generated content websites? Is corporate backlash imminent?
After years of talk about digital conversions and crossmedia platforms we are now witnessing the merger of the Internet and television at a pace that no one predicted. For the baby boom generation, that currently forms the film and television establishment, the media organisations and conglomerates, this unfolds as a complete nightmare. Not only because of copyright issues but increasingly due to the shift of audience to vlogging and video-sharing websites as part of the development of a broader participatory culture.
“Based on more than 25 hours of never-before-heard audiotaped interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad, the movie KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON is an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, told entirely in his own voice — without celebrity soundbites, news clips, sensational or tabloid angles. It’s who he was from the man himself, with cinematic imagery shot on film of the three cities in Washington State that played a major role in his life (Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle) and set to an evocative score by noted Northwest musician and producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard, as well as the music of more than 20 artists who influenced or touched Cobain during his life. Kurt Cobain About A Son opens in select markets in October. The soundtrack is out now on Barsuk Records. Visit www.barsuk.com for more information!”
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“A Swarm of Angels is 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. By subscribing for £25 members become part of a revolutionary process to make an open source feature film.”
Uboating.de is a new web based cinema magazine from Germany.
Every issue features a new movie with trailers, making of, interviews and more background information. I was impressed by the quality of the given information. All this supported by a beautiful design. Really shows what’s possible with web TV formats.
The first issue covers ‘A mighty heart’ by Michael Winterbottom, with Angelina Jolie, starting today in German cinemas.
I wrote an article for the german print magazine PAGE (issue 10/07) about the influences of the web on movie distrubution and marketing.
It originates from the example ‘Four Eyed Monsters’ (which I featured here), the first full feature on YouTube, and broadens the perspective to a general discussion about internet marketing & distribution for films.
Go check it out on German newsstands. The article of Jens Franke about Processing is also very interesting.
Many people are thinking about promoting their independently shot movie over the Internet…here’s the first story of success: FOUR EYED MONSTERS !
Directing couple Susan Buice and Arin Crumley pulled off every community driven internet marketing tool available: Myspace, YouTube, Podcast, VideoPodCasts, Facebook, Soundtrack, selling DVD’s, selling HighQualityDownloads, Flickr, Twitter, del.icoi.us… They asked people to set up screenings of the movie in their town, cinemas could request a screening…
But how came the breakthrough?
They pulled off a deal with an american movie community site, which pays them a buck for every new subscriber they bring in. This great idea was combined with a YouTube Front Page Feature of the film - and BOOM! 333.000 thousand plays until now and 18.000 bucks through subscriptions, and I think this is just the beginning.
One small detail to consider if you wanna do the same: The film is amazing, watch it!