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On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Sull <sulleleven@...> wrote:

> http://www.boondockfans.com
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Rupert
<rupert@...<rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>>
> wrote:
>
> > No, obviously it's not a bad thing if a director just doesn't want to
> > do it. Nobody's forcing anyone. My point - and maybe it was badly
> > made - is that so many other people in unexpected places are using
> > online video to promote ongoing projects... it seems absurd to me
> > that filmmakers aren't at the forefront of that phenomenon. And
> > they're not. Quite the opposite. And yet how many of these feature
> > films will have a "Making of" movie being shot expensively for the
> > DVD (or, in past times, for a momentary cable broadcast)?
> >
> >
> > On 5-Sep-08, at 4:25 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote:
> >
> > I don't think its exactly Negative if a director doesnt want to blog his
> > activites or post dailies onto the web. Maybe the director just wants to
> > show a finished product; many people are like that.
> > Kent, you're making a movie (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!), do
> > feel the
> > need to blog the production process? I assume you guys have talked to
> > the
> > producer about this sort of stuff. Is there anything you can share about
> > that?
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Rupert
<rupert@...<rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>
> <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I mean, REALLY - it's now 4-5 years since the people on this list
> > > started mucking about with this stuff.
> > >
> > > And Jan's director is unusual in his use of social media and video to
> > > document the production of his independent movie??
> > >
> > > Even politicians are now well-versed in using videoblogging and all
> > > kinds of web video to sell their message as they go along.
> > > http://johnmccain.blip.tv/
> > >
> > > The Queen has her own YouTube channel, for god's sake. And it's
> > > quite good.
> > > http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel
> > >
> > > When John McCain and Elizabeth II are more innovative in their use of
> > > online video than professional moviemakers, you know something is
> > > seriously rotten in the state of Denmark.
> > >
> > > I edited out a lot of swear words from this post.
> > >
> > > Rupert
> > > http://twittervlog.tv
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5-Sep-08, at 4:05 PM, Rupert wrote:
> > >
> > > Good for Michael Moore. Yes, some of them are starting to get it.
> > > But even the ones who are getting it are only partly getting it, and
> > > - like your director, Jan - are bullied by producers and funders who
> > > are still a long way from getting it.
> > >
> > > In May, I was at a talk about the future of documentaries given by
> > > Deborah Scranton, who directed War Tapes.
> > >
> > > In the end, she advocated YouTube as the best way to get your films
> > > seen by people.
> > >
> > > I asked her how she thought that kind of free distribution fitted
> > > with getting the considerable funding needed to make big
> > > documentaries like hers.
> > >
> > > She didn't have an answer.
> > >
> > > And then I asked her whether it was OK for The War Tapes to be
> > > distributed on YouTube so that it got viewed by more people.
> > >
> > > She said "Oh, that's a question for the producer."
> > >
> > > I was really disappointed with her. One moment, she was saying "It's
> > > great for you little people to get your films in front of an audience
> > > on YouTube" - and the next, she wouldn't even give her personal view
> > > about her own film being shown that way, to a room full of emerging
> > > documentary filmmakers.
> > >
> > > These questions are no brainers to me, and yet she was supposed to be
> > > giving an authoritative view about the future of documentaries. It's
> > > all very easy for established filmmakers to say "Up and coming
> > > filmmakers should use YouTube" - but if they say that, then they have
> > > to be able to justify why THEY should use it, too - regardless of
> > > what the studio's lawyers say in 2008. Otherwise it's just a
> > > bullshit platitude to make them sound like they get it. And it
> > > doesn't address the problem of how big documentaries will be funded
> > > ten years from now.
> > >
> > > I'm always amazed at how long it takes TV and Film professionals to
> > > understand and get excited about this stuff, instead of seeing it as
> > > a financial threat.
> > >
> > > Rupert
> > > http://twittervlog.tv
> > >
> > > On 5-Sep-08, at 3:29 PM, Jan McLaughlin wrote:
> > >
> > > Great news, really.
> > >
> > > They begin to 'get it'.
> > >
> > > Ha!
> > >
> > > Bwah-hahaha.
> > >
> > > Yes!!!!!!!!!
> > >
> > > The director of the indie movie I just finished mixing ("City
> > > Island") is
> > > putting clips from dailies (bloopers & such) online on his blog
> > through
> > > YouTube.
> > >
> > > <
> > > http://moviestildawn.blogspot.com/2008/09/city-island-empire-diner-
> > > moment.html
> > > >
> > >
> > > The producers had him cease and desist for about a week during
> > > production,
> > > but blog comments convinced 'em it was the right thing to do.
> > >
> > > One producer at a time...
> > >
> > > The director also wants to break his previous movie ("Two Family
> > House")
> > > into 10-minute segments and put the whole thing on YouTube - and WILL
> > > eventually. The director definitely gets it.
> > >
> > > Jan
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Jay dedman
> > <jay.dedman@... <jay.dedman%40gmail.com> <jay.dedman%40gmail.com
> ><jay.dedman%40gmail.com>>
>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Michael Moore is putting out his new film, "Slacker Rising", on
> > > the web
> > > > through blip.tv (for free).
> > > >
> > > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080905-michael-moore-skips-
> > > box-office-film-heads-straight-to-net.html
> > > >
> > > > "*Slacker Uprising* details Moore's tour of 62 US cities in an
> > > attempt to
> > > > rally young voters before the presidential election in 2004. Moore
> > > says
> > > > that
> > > > he originally considered releasing the movie in theaters, as he
> > > did with
> > > > his
> > > > 2004 film criticizing the Bush Administration, *Fahrenheit 9/11*.
> > > However,
> > > > he decided to go the online route instead as a symbol of gratitude
> > > to his
> > > > fans. "I thought it'd be a nice way to celebrate my 20th year of
> > > doing
> > > > this," Moore told the Associated
> > > > Press<http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?
> > > id=12199>.
> > > > "And also help get out the vote for November. I've been thinking
> > > about what
> > > > I want to do to help with the election this year."
> > > >
> > > > I know Michael Moore and Radiohead have built-in audiences, but it
> > > is also
> > > > getting people used to these new distribution models.
> > > >
> > > > Jay
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > http://jaydedman.com
> > > > 917 371 6790
> > > >
> > > >
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