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Duration: 19:01 minutes Upload Time: 2007-11-01 14:18:48 User: arincrumley :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: If you can get past the new age tone and awkward pauses as Joe Neulight & David Straus switch off, there are some good ideas in there. Some people at the conference really liked their talk and needed something like this and others were rolling their eyes. I personally was embarrassed for them since I feel the need to speak so abstractly is due to the fact that after all this time they still don't really have anything to show. No site demonstrations or new tools to announce. They did mention having a dashboard for filmmakers to distribute their work all over the web from one place but I've heard Withoutabox say they are going to have something in a few months and then watched them just continue to not have it. To credit Withoutabox, they did help us out big time in april of 2006 when they sponsored our self distribution research which enabled us to move out of Susan's parents basement and move back to NYC where we met Brian. We hired Brian to help make our heart map which was a project we had brainstormed in talks at Withoutabox's offices in LA. But really the idea originated in in the summer of 2005 when MySpace started blowing up and all of or conversations at film festivals began to evolve around how the future of digital distribution could be aided by social networking. But again to Withoutabox's credit, when I talk to them they always listen and especially Joe always gets what I'm talking about. Also the enthusiasm from David Strauss can often times be through the roof which is pretty impressive. And of course, they are the best way to submit to film festivals which I'm thinking of getting back into sometime soon. I've been focusing so much on the web that I now want to back track and get a little more real life stuff going on other then just panels and conferences. But there are three things I'm going to try to do when dealing with Film Festivals. Get a cut of what they collect from screenings. Get information about who buys tickets to see our film. Get them to buy some DVDs to sell after the screenings and they'll get half the proceeds. And wave any submission fees. In exchange for this we'll notify our audience base in their area of the screening and link to their film festival which expands the reach their film festival would otherwise have and insures a successful screening. And if a film festival wants, they can just look at their city on our heart map to see how much demand their is for our film. But in the future I think film festivals should be just like any other distributor. There is a license on a film that allows others to monetize the film. So they do what ever curating they want. Maybe have a 1000 people help program the festival, maybe have only 1 person program it all. Whatever they want. Then they make a play list and assign the play list to different theaters and each theater gets essentially a video podcast that pulls down HD versions of the films to say a mac mini or whatever is playing back the digital films. Then they can post an event which phones home to the movies home base online and then anyone in the area who had bookmarked the film saying they want notifications when it's screening would find out. A film festival could even publish a list of 100 films they've narrowed down and let the festival attendees help decide between them by bookmarking the ones they are most interested in seeing on the big screen. So the idea of a film only being available in film festivals and then going to theaters then DVD then VOD then TV then internet is obviously going to pass. It's just going to become available when it's done. But as a film starts to pick up traction film festivals will continue to be a good place to find audiences that can lead to finding more audiences which in some ways is possible today but not nearly to the degree it should be. |
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