Welcome Benjamin
I would like to welcome my brother Benjamin to the stray cinema team. He is studying jazz at the NZ school of music, and will be contacting musicians and bands to ask if they would like to contribute music to the project. This community of special interest make up an important part of our own community.
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By michelle, 2 years, 11 months ago - 5 comments
20 new submissions this week!
By michelle, 2 years, 11 months ago - No Comments
20 submissions came in from the victoria university digital media design students this week. highlights for me were subtitle and Diily IL1, what do you think? comments much appreciated...
i think its cool that a university has picked up on our idea and used it in their course!
i also received a myspace message from a 15 year old high school student in australia the other day. she told me she was editing a stray cinema film as part of her class project. I like that stray cinema is accessible to high school students, and the available footage we have shot gives them an opportunity to make a film, an opportunity they might not have had otherwise.
I'm in Sydney
By michelle, 2 years, 11 months ago - No Comments
Attending the Wireless World 2007 conference, so my blog may be a little neglected this week...Sorry.
Crowdsourcing
By michelle, 2 years, 12 months ago - 2 comments
I love new words :)
Crowdsourcing is a term I have come across quite a bit recently. According to Wikipedia it was coined by the editors of Wired magazine last year. There is much of a muchness between the Crowdsourcing and open source ideals, but you can find out more about the term here here.
here’s two very cool croudsourcing projects I have come across:
1/ A Swarm of Angels – their aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers (the "Swarm of Angels"), each contributing £25 to the production. ‘Angels’ can contribute to the film from early production stages right through to distribution
2/ Assignment Zero – They are writing a story about croudsourcing (in particular the growing trend in Internet usage, and the current and future effect this will have on journalism). This is a working model of an ‘open’ newsroom and journalists, and contribution is open to everyone. Apparently there are more collaborative reporting ‘experiments’ on the way from Assignment Zero after this one.
Croudsourcing, open source - call it what you like –I just love this open approach that is being applied to all types of projects online at the moment. The idea of collective intelligence from a community of people, ten heads are better than one etc etc…
Stray Cinema relies heavily on its community to progress and improve the project. We even admit that you may make a more interesting cut with our footage than we do.
By michelle, 2 years, 11 months ago - No Comments