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'''A Movie About The Web, By The Web''' <br> | '''A Movie About The Web, By The Web''' <br> | ||
A collaborative documentary exploring the power of networks. We´re getting so used to the internet that we no longer stop to think about it. Why we love it. Why we hate it. What it really is. | A collaborative documentary exploring the power of networks. We´re getting so used to the internet that we no longer stop to think about it. Why we love it. Why we hate it. What it really is and who it is turning is into. | ||
The project aims to show what the Network looks like offline - to show the ways in which it is creating community and transforming society. To show how the Internet is less a machine created by a select few brilliant minds, but is in fact shaped by everyone. The porn, the scamsters, the magical connectedness; it's all - us. | |||
=== Background === | === Background === | ||
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=== Description === | === Description === | ||
An overall "umbrella project" will begin on | An overall "umbrella project" will begin on OpenSourceCinema.org to host a series of episodes profiling communities that illustrate the community-building power of the web. These will be built collaboratively using the task-based system of Open Source Cinema - each episode will be built in a participatory manner. | ||
The project will be bootstrapped by a team of professional, international documentary filmmakers who will shoot initial episodes and serve as moderators of their respective episodes. They will manage the communities that sprout up around their episodes and bring their own communities. In this way the project will have a pluralized, international feel, and will have wildly divergent aesthetics, processes and perspectives. Just like the web. | The project will be bootstrapped by a team of professional, international documentary filmmakers who will shoot initial episodes and serve as moderators of their respective episodes. They will manage the communities that sprout up around their episodes and bring their own communities. In this way the project will have a pluralized, international feel, and will have wildly divergent aesthetics, processes and perspectives. Just like the web. | ||
Contributors and partcipants will be recruited from the [[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat Mozilla Drumbeat project]] - an international effort to "enable internet users to understand, participate and take control of their online lives". Leveraging this vast userbase, the project will have a global reach and impact. Participants will also come from the 5000 strong Open Source Cinema user base, a group of passionate collaborators who already succededed in creating the award winning "Rip! A Remix Manifesto:. | |||
In addition to the series of episodes, a "release" version will be edited together to create a feature length film, which will be toured to international film festivals and broadcast on TV networks and spread to P2P networks in a finished state. If the community building the film is large and lively enough, multiple releases may be made over time (once a year?). | |||
=== Technology === | |||
HTML5 video and other open web technologies will be combine to create a whole new kind of media experience -- letting viewers and community members mix video, social media and data from across the web in real time. The goal will be to keep nimble and generative: as open video practices and technology evolve, so will the project. The blue sky vision would be the creation of a living documentary, a wiki-type experience that can be changed and morphed through user contributions. | HTML5 video and other open web technologies will be combine to create a whole new kind of media experience -- letting viewers and community members mix video, social media and data from across the web in real time. The goal will be to keep nimble and generative: as open video practices and technology evolve, so will the project. The blue sky vision would be the creation of a living documentary, a wiki-type experience that can be changed and morphed through user contributions. | ||
=== How does this make the web better? === | === How does this make the web better? === | ||