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Anyone who has made a movie/film can tell you that it involves a huge amount of collaboration, interaction and delegation. For the amount of people involved the channels of communication need to be tight, open and well oiled. So to speak.
Now I am not an expert and I am using the term Film Making very loosely because what I am about to suggest covers many aspects of film and video content creation from Motion Graphics to mash-ups to home videos to professional film.
I have been reading a book called Tribes by Seth Godin as well participating in a Group Blogging Project where a certain blogger blogs about a number of pages – discussing the topics contained there in (Check here for my contribution: So why do it?).
This has been incredibly challenging to me. With this in mind I have thought much about making the right connections with people in the industry – particularly Christians (but not restricted to). The most successful tool for me in establishing these connections has been twitter, so it got me thinking -
How can Twitter help Filmmaking?
What Do you think? How can Twitter help?
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Let’s say I need a screen-writer…I go onto Twitter and search or just post that I’m looking for a one.
I have a film blog and a film website. I use Twitter to inform filmmakers of interesting articles I post on my blog. Once they visit my blog, then can also sign up to my free film directing ezine or register as a user on my blog.
This is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot recently – but I don’t have an answer to it (yet).
Finding someone to hire for my project or sharing my insight and knowledge with others are wonderful ways of using this fascinating new technology. Still I think the benefits of connecting via twitter (or social media in general) should go beyond this.
My vision is to discover a truly open, collaborative, and integrational way of making films over the internet.
– and the people I am actively connected with on social networks are not into filmmaking.
My obstacles have been, that the people I make films with are not into social media (some of them, I’d suspect, even enjoy their internetphobia
There are some examples of where it could go:
Last year, we had a cooperational film group briefly emerging around an event in Munich “Freezing Central Station”; some 25 or so persons, and we coordinated the making of a film entirely over the internet. The shooting of this event (with 9 cameras) was the first and only time the people met in person); everything else including the edit was coordinated in a community called http://www.lokalisten.de, which features applications similar to twitter.
You can watch the result here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNv9aNtGd0
I thinkt, the film is great; the group, however, dissolved after the event, and we didn’t further develop our experience in “collaborative open film making”.
Another example is this film about a Psychiatric Clinic in Munich (in German language): http://www.spoxx.org/spoxxBlog/?p=23
The filmakers, clinic administration, and staff developed much of the concept and script using a password-protected blog; however, the non-filmakers quit, when it came to discussing versions of the edit. Also, we will not have the chance of further building upon our experience in this group, since the clinic’s “umbrella organization” have decided that they, as an institution, would not open their website to community building, but rather use it as a one-way showcase.
I have only recently been using twitter, and I’m still in the state of discovering, and finding people to follow (and followers) – so this comment is only to show, where I stand at the moment.
I am subscribing to your blog, and started following you on twitter -
How come, Doris Day comes into my mind…: Que Sera Sera…
yes, that and have you seen twibes, there are few interesting groups there with very cool members.
I am a subscriber of that directing ezine
nice.
I think production companies/producers/filmmakers are more afraid of the chance of viral negativity towards a film that they are excited about the opportunity of free advertising for the film.
but with actors and film directors joining twitter (for example) it seems positive – but they may have some form of NDA for information rendered to a Social Media site – ha ha ha.