mDistribute
I am trying a new service today, its called mDistribute. It’s taking me about a day to sign up and upload +/- 10 short films.
mDistribute allows you to license your content of most any type or length, non-exclusively, to “hundreds of content aggregators in the mobile and web industries”.
For a fee, that seems fair, and if you learn how to price your stuff right you can make some decent cash. Or so we’re gonna find out!
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HULU has the UK episodes of the office. A must see.
“Hot Tub Time Machine” : Cannot wait for this movie - I have heard from people who have seen advance copies who say it is a knockout.
Are green screens saving or ruining film and tv? There are million$ of reasons to shoot on a backlot as opposed to closing off a NYC street, (and if done well, can be artful). Is not film & TV one big recreation? So why do some still have a knee-jerk reaction to this “fakery”? Why does this technology seem extremely cool yet seriously disappointing all at the same time? As this one dude puts it:
“The Chariot Scene in “Ben-Hur” took a month to film, using 15,000 extras and an 18 acre set. It lasted onscreen for maybe 10 minutes. Now, they can do 95% of that in post production. Is it better that we have the technology? Maybe. But “Ben-Hur” still owns our sorry asses.”
Take a look at this video above. You think your mind was blown - wait until those actors find out that the world isn’t really green.
Box Office Results
Ive been noticing something for some time now - that when tv, radio or even web newscasters blurb about the movies, they summarize the box office as the lead in, and sometimes, (most of time for tv & radio) they will leave it there.
I wish we (they) could come up with a different barometer.
Why is this important for the public to know, as the first and sometimes only thing they hear about the movies? There is nothing wrong with learning what the box office gross is, but I feel like this statistic, alone, perpetuates the message that movies are made for the money.
The majority of the movie going audience are the ones hearing this, day in, day out, and it doesnt do much for film as an art form.
This happens in other creative industries too, but not as much - music albums arent created by executives (save for boy bands, and girl groups. and maybe Milli Vanilli) Seriously, though - many of your studio films are a carcophany of ‘ideas’ from young suits with dollar signs (and other ‘stats’) as their driving force. This trickles down to everyone, to what the writers are expected to write http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/you-dont-make-me-feel/screenwriting/2009/12/06/ to what the audience, in general, expects.
Filmmaking is an art form, first. I think. Well, it should be anyway. There must be some other way to reference how well a movie is doing, if someone is going to just say one thing about it. It would at least be a lesson on what is important in life, in general. So we can evolve.
Maybe then we will begin to see more films that are transformative.
Because real, human transformation, is priceless.
Heres the pilot to a great web video series “Chad Vader”
Stop babies and puppies
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i dunno….i just think vintage cinema interviews are rad. its the Hitch. (On his best behavior). Cool.
