1. The internet is a powerful new tool for independent filmmakers in that it’s cheap, free from centralized control, and it is global. It is now quickly changing as Hollywood has become interested in the future opportunities regardless of the dot.com crash. The internet allows for a kind of experimentation that breaks down traditional structures.
2. The net is going to require that filmmakers look at their work in a new way. Many conventions of traditional filmmaking don’t apply and to a certain extent filmmakers will have to re-think the medium. Major questions are size of screen and connection speeds. Other considerations are marketing tool vs. online theater. The format shapes the story.
3. Due to the current technical limitations think positive as a creator: we are living in the days of a technologically imposed dogma.
4. Film on the net is not going to replace traditional methods of distribution, but it’s a new avenue of distribution that filmmakers need to be experimenting with now not only with new storytelling methods - but also with aesthetics and interactivity.
5. The Internet allows filmmakers to make a project outside of a system and distribute it around the world without seeking permission or approval.
Timeline of the history of the Internet: http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/index.html
“1991 is the breakthrough year when the first point-and-click way of navigating the files is made and is freely distributed on the Internet. …Designer MaCahill calls it "the first Internet application my mom can use." …1991 is also the year in which Tim Berners-Lee posts the first computer code of the World Wide Web. The ability to combine words, pictures, and sounds on Web pages.”
1991 August: The first availability, by FTP, of software needed to use the Internet with CERN's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This lays the foundation for the World Wide Web.[104]
1992 - The first audio and video broadcasts take place over a portion of the Internet known as the "MBONE." More than 1,000,000 hosts are part of the Internet.
1993 - Mosaic, the first graphics-based Web browser, becomes available. Traffic on the Internet expands at a 341,634% annual growth rate.
1994 The RollingStones broadcast the Voodoo Lounge tour over the M-Bone.
Southpark “Spirit of Christmas” http://www.killfile.org/soxmas/
Excerpted from article by Kenny Turan (LA Times) “It started when a Fox executive they'd met through contacts made at Sundance gave them $2,000 to make a video he could send as a Christmas card. The exec sent the video out at Christmas 1995 to 80 people, who promptly made it their card as well... The team sold Comedy Central a series called "South Park," based on the shopping mall world "Christmas" takes place in.”
Star Wars themes:
Trooper Clerks (their site is down)
Troops (Kevin Rubio S/FX guy) http://www.theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/troops/
Blackhole TV (German curated site) http://www.digitale.khm.de/digitale_99/digitale5.html
Site is hard to navigate but I showed the Mutter and Silvia pieces.
Labyrinth Project: (Nina Menkes) USC http://www.annenberg.edu/labyrinth/
Re-purposed Content from a feature.
Aesthetics:
Levi’s commercial Fuzzy Rocks – no longer linked on web.
360-degree technology: View Coming of Age
http://www.behere.com/ChangingTheWayYouViewTheWorld.htm
Be Here has a simple 360 degree surround-video technique. They screw a bowl-shaped lens on a 1300x1300 pixel DVC camera ($6,000). Only one camera is required and no browser plug-ins. RealVideo works as a window.
Filmmakers Around the World Embrace
Planet Invasion (Italy) http://www.planetinvasion.com
Webseries: Scums
Evan Mather Vert/Vert remixed http://www.evanmather.com
Dfilm.com http://www.dfilm.com (Dfilm moviemaker)
Banja (Game world and shared ongoing story) http://www.banja.com
Analogiks-Indians http://www.analogiks-indians
Great design ideas.
Machinima.com http://www.machinima.com
Important to know meta-gaming (gaming mechanic) – Must learn the rules of the game first in order to Meta Game.
Tara Veneruso’s personal work presentation:
Intimate shorts and newer series: http://www.flamingangelfilms.com/tv3fs.mov
Blastro.com features 9 Boyfriends (2000 – stalled in post-production of website):
Open TRAILER with Real Player: rtsp://paris.blastro.com/9boyfriendstrailer_300.rm
Other episodes: http://www.blastro.com/original/Olivia+Rosewood.html
1997-1998 : Chemical Generation: http://www.internetv.net/chemgen/index.html
Series not actually online anymore.
