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By focusing on what the edges of the network look like, the everyday people, the project will humanize the web and remind the world that the web is their public commons. It will NOT be interviews with web stars and geeks - every day people who are building the web by using it. | |||
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Revision as of 17:50, 4 December 2009
Title
A Movie About The Web, By The Web
a collaborative documentary illustrating how the open web has changed and is changing our world.
Background
Brett Gaylor (Rip! A Remix Manifesto) and Henrik Moltke (Good Copy Bad Copy) are developing a documentary project investigating the social effects of the World Wide Web. The goal is to show how the web builds real communities.
Description
An overall "umbrella project" will begin on OpenSouurceCinema.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 goal will be to keep nimble and regenerative - 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.
Eventually a "fixed" 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.
How does this make the web better?
By focusing on what the edges of the network look like, the everyday people, the project will humanize the web and remind the world that the web is their public commons. It will NOT be interviews with web stars and geeks - every day people who are building the web by using it.
Tags
Video
Goals and metrics (outcome)
- Q1 2010 -
- Q2 2010
- ???
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