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Bad Robot's Creative and Technical Paradise with Avid's Dyamic Collaboration Environments
At the end of last year, Avid announced a free webinar exploring Bad Robot, the film and TV production company co-founded by J. J. Abrams — which, judging by the success of such projects as Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Lost, and Star Trek, is doing more than one thing very, very right. Don’t worry if you missed that webinar, though, because Avid has recently shared a 20-minute video breaking down Bad Robot’s studio space — and not only is it an enviable one for any independent because each step of the creative process is fostered there, but also because its Media Composer workflow of collaboration taps the future directly. More »
In the past two years there have been two world-wide events — the first on the tenth of October, 2010, the second on the eleventh of November, 2011 — in which the One Day on Earth project invited anyone and everyone, anywhere and everywhere in the world to capture a single living moment. The result is a series of feature-length video collages (one for each year) spanning every possible scenario you could imagine — all of which were simply occurring on the same single day. This year, Vimeo and One Day on Earth invite you to join over 30,000 collaborators in contributing to the final film of the trilogy — tomorrow, on 12.12.12. More »
NoFilmSchool is, of course, a site for filmmakers, particularly (but not limited to) those of the DIY variety — but we also foster independent creativity. As independent creatives, we’re able to draw inspiration from virtually any artistic endeavor, including music. To continue this bit of a break from the barrage of recent news in camera tech, I wanted to share something in that musical vein with you guys. For those of you unfamiliar with the electronic-pop duo Purity Ring, they represent a rather refreshing success story regarding internet popularity and the power of new media — not to mention long-distance collaboration. These are all things which we at the forefront of indie content creation can correlate to both what we do as well as the possible future of how we do it. Also of potential interest to us creatives is Purity Ring’s live show. With the help of lighting installation custom-design group Tangible Interaction, the band has crafted a truly special sensory experience to complement — and more fully embody — their unique style of ethereal and euphoric music. More »
Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar Describe the Script's Evolution for Beasts of the Southern Wild
As Sundance and Cannes award-winner Beasts of the Southern Wild grows from festival darling to full-fledged must-see status in its platform rollout across the country, many interviews with first-time feature film director Benh Zeitlin have focused how his creative team managed to film a joyous apocalyptic story off the grid on the water during an oil spill in southern Louisiana with non-actors. Merely getting this film in the can was a miracle. My interest as a writer, however, craves to know more about how Zeitlin and his co-writer Lucy Alibar worked through the adaptation of Alibar’s play Juicy and Delicious to create this Beast. Thanks to Edward Douglas at ComingSoon.net, we have some answers, straight from the co-writers themselves. More »
In addition to six new touch applications, Adobe this week also announced Creative Cloud, their new online storage/collaboration service. Think of it as an Adobe-centric Dropbox, which will be available starting next month with apps on Android and iOS “at an attractive monthly price,” according to the FAQ. Here’s the presentation of the services and community available in Creative Cloud (beyond simple file storage) from Adobe’s MAX conference: More »
As promised, the Ridley Scott-produced and Kevin MacDonald-directed collaborative YouTube film (26 co-directors are named) will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival tonight. Because it’s a YouTube production, however, it will also be streaming live online at 8PM EST. Life in a Day was culled from 80,000 user-submitted clips to give a flavor of what was happening all around the world on July 24, 2010. Here’s a teaser: More »
Collaborative HDSLR Film 'The Story Beyond the Still' Premieres at Sundance (and Right Here, Online)
At the currently-running 2011 Sundance Film Festival, there are a number of films that are premiering simultaneously in front of a live audience and online. One of these projects is the conclusion to the Canon- and Vimeo-sponsored Story Beyond the Still contest, which, according to Canon, is “the largest online collaborative film contest in history.” Largest or not, the chapter-by-chapter crowdsourced film has produced some great individual shorts, and now for the first time it’s available as one complete film — with a new final chapter to cap it off. Watch the 38-minute compendium in its entirety here: More »
GridIron Software has released Flow 2.0, a collaboration/syncing/management application that enables people to share and sync files over a network. Dubbed a “project operating system for creative professionals,” the free “Flow Essentials” version comes with 4GB of online secure storage, allowing remote file storage, versioning, and team collaboration. More »
Spidvid, a website currently in beta, is offering a “social platform” for producers to post projects, build and manage a team, and distribute video. Editors, shooters, and other production folk can bid on tasks and get reviewed upon project completion, theoretically moving up to bigger and better projects as they accumulate positive feedback. I haven’t used the site itself but their intro video explains it all: More »
One of Google’s lesser-known products, Google Moderator, was integrated into YouTube today. The platform — which allows for crowdsourcing, polling, and other feedback — originally launched as a standalone product in 2008. Now that it’s part of YouTube, however, it seems like a good tool for filmmakers. Here’s Google with the lowdown: More »
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