Creative Commons Filmmaking Remixes Modern Cinema

mjeppsen writes, "Filmmaking experiment A Swarm Of Angels aims to create and distribute the first collaborative film released under a Creative Commons license. The project is using community participation and funding to make a film that would traditionally cost $3–4 million for a mere $1.75 million. The entire filmmaking process will be collaborative, from Wiki-based script creation to community voting on creative and marketing decisions. Is this just a scheme by the filmmakers to get funding for a pet project, or is it Hollywood's worst nightmare? More importantly, can 'open-source films' develop into a sustainable financial model?"

ATTN: Slashdot trolls

[Anonymous Coward]

Your time is now.

Get on over to that script wiki, treat us to some nice hot grits and make cinema history with goatse.

CCL for Nerdporn?

[Analein]

With 1.75 million dollars, you could create some good nerd pornography. Imagine some big mainframe (1.000.000 dollars), a decent hosting environment (500.000 dollars), some specialists setting it up (200.000 dollars), fast food for weeks (40.000 dollars) and some street hookers serving the eyegalls wearing identification models in front of terminals (I'd write "priceless", if it weren't for all the asking I'd get about locations).

Writing a script for that shouldn't be all to hard, recursively searching through Slashdot and adding some random porn vocabulary to it could in fact be sufficient. I smell geekbuster.

Wikipedia the movie - coming soon

[Raul654]

Clearly not true. The script for Wikipedia, the movie [wikipedia.org] is coming along great

Becomes porn in 3..2..

[Lord Bitman]

Action.

Re:It's been done already

[jrobinson5]

Yes, I "totally" (completely, entirely) "agree" (a word meaning to concur or coincide) with "you" (misterhypno).

Re:Hey, Kids! Let's Put on a Wiki!!

[Fred_A]

Sorry but when shooting a film the brunt of it and the biggest expense is the shooting, and you cant do that all over the planet, nothing like having the protagonist character being played by 30 different people all dressed the same way.

Depends on the character. Chewbacca could very well be played by 20 different people without it having much of an impact (aka "the Chewbacca rebuttal") :)

Or maybe it all happens at the bottom of a well and all they have is one match...