Downloading Movies is…
02April2005
[film]
[tweet this]
Installed Limewire and been downloading lots of anime lately… (discovered a pretty amazing series called Wolf’s Rain, currently downloading Ep11 of 30)
And got to thinking… I want to make movies afterall, and I’d rather be able to make a living from them rather than have people downloading them for free… But it’s not really that simple. In the case of anime, there’s been a subculture sharing subtitled anime episodes for years, because they’re otherwise very hard to come by outside Japan… But if I make independent movies (read, niche audiences), I DO want fans to share my work - that’s better than having my work languish unseen, and the Net enables me to share work with people anywhere, rather than having to find a big enough group in any one place…
So I’m wondering about making films/webmedia pieces, &c, and releasing them freely on the net… Then the money-making part would come from sponsorship, which could take two forms: 1) the old patronage system, where someone sponsors a work of art; or 2) exclusive works for corporations
All very idealistic, but still a step closer to reality than what the movie and music industries are attempting to cling on to.
« L'Invasion du Manga :: England, A Holiday in Two Parts »
Related [film]
- On the Failure of Microbudgets (01November2010)
- Nostalgia (29April2008)
- The City Reborn (28January2008)
- Raphaël — Origins (12November2007)
- Phi (Jade Cut) now online (11July2007)
- The Prophetess (26September2006)
- Untitled Vampire Short :: Treatment (30August2006)
- A Vampire Lore (10July2006)
- Vampire/Watcher (05July2006)
- That Imp of Earth and Industry (03July2006)
- Shooting Bombsites in Melbourne and Sydney (13May2006)
- Two of Three Short Scripts (04April2006)
- The Vampire's Story (04January2006)
- The City (20November2005)
- Downloading Movies is... (02April2005)
- I Want One! (21March2005)
- content+distribution (15March2005)