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We're really pleased to offer the entire of our 2004 book, 'Plug In & Turn On: A Filmmakers Guide to the Internet' as a free PDF...
You can download this from our website or download it as a torrent from the CatBot Project, as we said in the introduction back in 2004;
This book is about web filmmaking: the brash offspring of networked technology and digital media. Although immature, web filmmaking's growth has been rapid, with hints of a nascent potential. Whilst films have been widely available for consumption, web films are accessible in terms of production and distribution as well – and herein lies the promise for web filmmaking. Physical copies are also still available from our shop.
On the subject Lev Manovich, who wrote the forward to our book, has a new book out, free to download. |
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From an email we received and looks interesting;
Mike Dicks, a producer who specialises in interactive and social media, is trying to make a movie by bringing together skills via Facebook. He's inviting people to join the group 'Who wants to make a movie?' and needs a large number of members to influence his potential funders.
Simply by joining the group you are helping progress the project. Once you are a member you can take part in the process of making the film if you wish. Pass the idea on to anyone who might be interested. |
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How about this - http://spot.us/ - a novel way of funding newspaper articles - and so obviously a novel way of doing films too? |
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It looks like the next more my Google could be it's GDrive (also see here); The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet.
This was always going to be the natural evolution of the 'cloud computing' approach. So all of your video content would be in one place - online. It is not clear how hard-drive intensive tasks such as video editing (especially in HD!) might fare on such as system and there is the issue of a loss of power to the cloud in exchange for the convenience: It is this prospect that alarms critics of Google's ambitions. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, a charity defending computer users' liberties, did not dispute the convenience offered, but said: "It's a little bit like saying, 'we're in a dictatorship, the trains are running on time.' But does it matter to you that someone can see everything on your computer? Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?"
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The writer Naomi Wolf gives an interesting account of how she has come to think that it is the film and not the pen that is mightier than the sword...
The End of America details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. I took the message on the road, and one of those early lectures - at the University of Washington in Seattle, in October 2007 - was videoed by a member of the audience. Even with its bad lighting and funky amateur vibe, this video, posted on YouTube, has been accessed almost 1,250,000 times . This was a humbling lesson. While a polemical argument in prose may reach tens of thousands of the usual suspects - formally educated people who like to follow such texts - the video version reached far beyond that audience.
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