I’m about to make my next film project, which I’m doing as my thesis at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and I need your help!
The film is live-action (sorry! :P) short called “The Secret Number”. Check out our full pitch on the Kickstarter webpage:
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So, no Blender. Except that slowmo jellybean. That was a pretty good jellybean, right?
But I hope you might be interested in pledging even a couple bucks to the fundraising campaign. We’re trying to raise a lot of money, so we need as much help as we can get.
Thanks so much guys!
–Colin
P.S. While I’m here, I may as well let you know that I’ve uploaded the miscellaneous “Blender Tips” series I made for the Sintel DVD on my site.
@Uncle Entity - Hah, I had to look that up. Yeah, exactly - the secret integer is the key to enable you to see the fnords! What a cool concept.
@agentmilo - Glad you enjoyed the tips! I appreciate any help you can afford.
@Raub - Hm, interesting to consider. Do you think creative commons would be as valuable for a live-action project? Is it the CC for the final product or the Open Content design that makes it attractive?
About Creative Commons: It’s CC for the final product that makes it attractive. At the local cinema I work from time to time, screenings of short films are attended sparsely. But when we do screenings of CC-licensed short films, house is full
We even managed to collect money for Sintel after showing CC-licensed shorts:
In short: CC on the final product = more viewers
(the short film I’ll be working on early next year will also be CC-licensed and the ones I made so far are all CC, too)
Hah, thanks macouno! Very curious to see whether or not this fundraising campaign works for us. Kickstarter is pretty awesome. Nice and easy to set up. I know we talked about it a bit-- definitely a cool thing to try for one of your upcoming projects!
Raub- Yeah man! I see. I’m… I’m trying to think of the downsides. I mean, I just feel like I wanna at least know what people are using my work for, hah. But maybe I could go for it. I will have to have a chat with my composer to see if this would be okay… and my actors… and my DP…
effstops: How did you manage to direct Sintel? I mean Sintel is used everywhere from tradeshows to product demos on the web…
But I understand your point very good. Getting everyone on the team to approve is difficult. I never could get my films licensed as free as I wanted. I always ended up with some ND or NC when I wanted just CC-BY.
I also like to know where my stuff is used. But thanks to the internet that is solved easily. Just make people attribute your website when they use your work and you will find out about how it’s used through the backlinks Analytics for the win!
Well, Sintel was made with Open Source and Creative Commons in mind right away. And listening to several of the interviews, some parts of Blender wheren’t exactly production ready, apparently. Without a programmer or three constantly in reach, it would probably have been impossible…
I can see why a life-action movie might not be easily CC-ified.
Colin, you’re a great director. Best look with this film. So far, your kickstarter donations seem to go really great
@Raub - Hah, Sintel was a different story. CC and Open Content was the point from the get-go, and I was totally excited by that aspect of it! I can’t wait to see where Sintel shows up.
But with “The Secret Number”, I wonder how it affects the distribution end of things. Would it limit my ability to take it to festivals? Would I be able to consider distribution options? Lets say I met a producer who wanted to purchase the film to distribute on DVD or put on iTunes or something. That’s the dream of any short filmmaker.
Would I be able to take advantage of this opportunity? Mmm, probably not. I can’t sell the rights because it’s creative commons. But, actually… he could just take it for free and distribute it, make money with it… without even notifying me, right?
Depending on the license of course! (Man, that non-commercial license suddenly seems appealing from this side of the tracks. But usually it’s frustrating… as a user of CC material.)
I don’t think I understand the potential ramifications well enough just yet. Will have to do some research.
Yeah, you’re right. It depends on the license. That’s the good thing about CC - you can chose what can be done with your work. I guess in your case (and in the case of most fimmakers) an NC-clause would settle all hassle.
Conserning the festivals - here in Germany there are some that prefer CC-licensed films (it saves them paperwork). I don’t know about the situation in your part of the world, though. Maybe I’m just from a CC-affine country…
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I mean Sintel is used everywhere from tradeshows to product demos on the web…