Online Film Distribution
In today's class Luke mentioned a few sites that can be used for online film distribution but he left out a New Zealand site which some of you may or may not be aware of and this is:
http://www.nzshortfilm.com/
The first website allows directors of short films the chance to submit their films and have them viewed online. The site only accepts New Zealand short films and has various genre sections including the standard ones, drama, comedy, horror etc but also includes a couple of new genres which are experimental and of course, the 48 hour section.
I stumbled across the site a while ago and decided to navigate around the website and I found that the film directors give up their copyrights to the site administration and I was disheartened because it is so hard to get a foot in the door into the film making industry and it is so hard to stand out against all the "clutter" that can be found on the web. This was raised in class, and I tend to agree that it is substituting one middle man for another.
Starting one's own personal website and distributing movies is a novel idea, but it just leads us back to the vicious cycle of the studio, except this time they are online.
http://www.nzshortfilm.com/
The first website allows directors of short films the chance to submit their films and have them viewed online. The site only accepts New Zealand short films and has various genre sections including the standard ones, drama, comedy, horror etc but also includes a couple of new genres which are experimental and of course, the 48 hour section.
I stumbled across the site a while ago and decided to navigate around the website and I found that the film directors give up their copyrights to the site administration and I was disheartened because it is so hard to get a foot in the door into the film making industry and it is so hard to stand out against all the "clutter" that can be found on the web. This was raised in class, and I tend to agree that it is substituting one middle man for another.
Starting one's own personal website and distributing movies is a novel idea, but it just leads us back to the vicious cycle of the studio, except this time they are online.
posted by liz shaw at 2:48 PM
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