Wired: Can the Internet Save Indie Film?
Fri, 06/27/2008 - 12:36 — Waldo
(via Digg) Wired has an article posing the question "Can the Internet save Indie film?" While some don't think indie film NEEDS saving, others disagree strongly. What do you think?
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Save it or find it a new home
I think the internet won't save short film in its present form, but will open up a new venue for budding filmmakers. Internet series are the calling card projects of the day, filling the roll short film held for 50 years.
The main problem facing short film online is that by themselves there isn't much to build a site on. Its a issue of packaging.
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Amazing that this just happens to be the topic of discussion right now while I'm on here to promote a website. Read this topic, it'll tell you everything you need. From there, you can decide.
http://www.filmmaker.com/node/18420
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Collaborative Film Projects on the Internet are good starting po
Experiments like http://www.Rootclip.com and others are helping create a new generation of filmmakers. And with cameras like RED bringing innovation to digital, there will be a new generation of guerilla trained filmmakers - much like many of the photographers who emerged decades ago. Sure, RED is expensive now, but as the innovations trickle down, you will see that tech in almost all the cameras moving forward. Then just see what happens to indie film.
I don't see the internet as
I don't see the internet as an entity that saves things. Mainly it destroys them or takes away the access or connection to something already existing and provides it to a larger audience, and while this may be helpful to the indie audience it's done more in a destructive way than a constructive way.
I don't know...
if it will save it, but I do know that the internet can reach out to millions and millions of people worldwide. It is an avenue that Indie films can utilize to reach out to other viewers. But then again, Indie films have always been less "popular" by mainstream movie and culture anyway.
The Internet? Bah, Humbug!
What will save indies is finding something that sells with audiences. Sure, that may sound foolish, but, seriously, I look at all these independent films coming out these days and they sure don't make me want to go see them. I think that's the reason most indies aren't doing very well. They're just not very appealing.
Take Pulp Fiction, for example. Who in their right mind wouldn't be appealed by that movie? It had smooth gangsters, '60's and '70's nostalgia, and a very awesome dance scene. Who wouldn't want to see a movie like that?
Alfred Hitchcock believed that the audience goes to a movie theater simply to be entertained. If Hitch was right, no wonder indies aren't doing very well. They look like movies that are a chore to watch rather than movies that look really fun.
So, my opinion is this. If indies want to be successful, first, they need to market and sell their films better. Seriously, does anybody want to watch any indie film that's come out this year? I sure don't. Second, they need to make their movies more entertaining than artsy. Alfred Hitchcock has made a lot of films that could be considered as indies. Take movies like Rear Window or Psycho. Rear Window is really only two sets while Psycho clearly looks like an old independent film with very few to no special effects whatsoever.
Come to think of it, maybe all the indies should just study Hitchcock.