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Update #10: OpenIndie Development Screencast
Posted on January 5, 2010
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update to let you know that today I posted a screencast of my progress with building OpenIndie. If you're interested to see how far I've got and what kinda shape the site is in after four weeks of full time development check out the post on our blog.
http://blog.openindie.com/post/318287012/openindie-development-screencast
As always if you have any questions, feel free to comment on the blog, on vimeo, or on here at Kickstarter. Alternative, pick my brains by email kieran AT openindie DOT com
Kieran Masterton
OpenIndie Co-Founder
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Anyone who donates at least 1 dollar will get an invitation on march 1st 2010 to be one of the founding members of the site and you'll be able to request any film and put on any screening of any film on the site. This could be for a group of friends in your living room or renting out your local cineplex. In the first few months there be a limit of 1 screening per week per user and each user will only be able to have two films selected for download at a time. This is to keep us on budget and not incur massive data transfer expenses. But this is enough to get a screening series off the ground that is dedicated to showing your personal picks of the 100 pioneering films. Lets hope they don't all suck. Haha. But we know we have Four Eyed Monsters, Moonshine, Head Trauma, Abel Raises Cain, We Are The Strange and I'm sure many others that I can personally assure you are definitely worth screening.
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OpenIndie.com is being created based on the distribution strategies we implemented with Four Eyed Monsters, so in celebration of this, everyone who has or now makes a donation of 15 dollars will be mailed a Four Eyed Monsters Music CD. (Only to US, Canada or UK addresses due to shipping costs.) For a full track list check out our post on the updates tab of this page. For more information about the CD, check out: http://foureyedmonsters.com/category/music/
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Filmmaker profile that works to upload your mailing list into so that all of your fans will hear about any screening that gets put on. Any member of the site will be able to put on a screening of your film. They'll be able to download your film so you don't have to mail DVDs to the hosts. They'll be able to Use OpenIndie.com to give you all the donations collected at the screening. And you'll get a button on your films page that allows people to make a donation. This works regardless of where they saw your film. Think of it like a tip jar for your film. This profile will be live and active for 10 months at the end of which time we'll assess how to move forward and sustain the site. In addition, you'll also get 1 hour of free consulting time with myself, Arin Crumley scheduled during mutual availability at some point during the 10 month period. During this consultation we'll discuss what the goals of your filmmaking are and I'll mentor you in how to best take advantage of various technologies, methodologies and modes of thinking that can bring you more success. Note: If you're not a filmmaker but pledge $100 or more you may donate the 1 hour of consultancy to a filmmaker of your choice. However, you must have your chosen filmmaker contact kieran (at) openindie (dot) com with your name and their details before the Kickstarter campaign ends in order that we can match pledges to filmmakers.
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Putting real life into film, podcasting to extend the narrative, captivating social network audiences, Google mapping the audience demand for a theatrical release and digitally distributing to millions of internet viewers around the world. The pioneering efforts of Arin Crumley haven’t gone un-noticed as Indiewire, MovieMaker, The Wall Street Journal, The Spirit Awards, The Sundance Channel, IFC TV, & many others have jumped into the echo chamber further demonstrating all that new media has to offer.
Today The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds the co-creation of the popular independent film and online video series, Four Eyed Monsters. The film won the Sundance Channel Audience Award and was nominated for two spirit awards. Millions of viewers have engaged across multiple mediums with the project from podcasting, to MySpace to YouTube, facebook & twitter. The community around the film has participated in DIY theatrical screenings around the world and the audience has created material that has been put back into the project. The phenomena of Four Eyed Monsters has also attracted deals to air the film on IFC TV and the Super Channel as well as other foreign distribution interest.
Continuing his exploration into new media Arin also co-founder a research and development project called From Here to Awesome which has been uniting filmmakers to create the future models of collaboration, funding, production and distribution. All of this has lead to the development of many new films including one that was just shot out in the desert at burning man and is set for release in 2010. Keep track of all Arin’s projects and ideas on his blog at arincrumley.com
OPEN INDIE BETA SITE
Great Stuff, Kieran. Looking forward to the finished site. Just a quick question. In setting up a screening the site then emails all those who have requested to attend with an email. My experience is that even with motivated viewers they need to be reminded a few times. For example, say I set up a screening a month away and an email goes out today. Will that be the only email they get? Is it possible for the filmmaker to send additional emails to those who have requested the screening with say additional details. Maybe one of the cast will attend. Maybe there will be doorprizes. Maybe we'll give out free popcorn to those who also bring two guests. In other words - some rudimentary marketing where the filmmaker can add some comments to maybe one email a week to all who have requested the screening as it gets closer gets closer?
Also is it possible to let others who live in the target area know about the screening who may not have requested it. As the site gets larger, it seems that a viewer may have checked out one out of maybe a few hundred films and it caught his attention, but if he knew that a similar film was screening in his area this week, he might be interested in knowing about the screening too. That way we as filmmakers are also helping other filmmakers on the site as well find their audience as well. Sort of like what it says on Amazon "People who bought the book you just bought also bought this book (list)"
Maybe that's for Openindie 2.0 - but just throwing it out as an idea.
Derrick Warfel
Winter Star Prods
"Midnight Reckoning"
OPEN INDIE BETA SITE
Great Stuff, Kieran. Looking forward to the finished site. Just a quick question. In setting up a screening the site then emails all those who have requested to attend with an email. My experience is that even with motivated viewers they need to be reminded a few times. For example, say I set up a screening a month away and an email goes out today. Will that be the only email they get? Is it possible for the filmmaker to send additional emails to those who have requested the screening with say additional details. Maybe one of the cast will attend. Maybe there will be doorprizes. Maybe we'll give out free popcorn to those who also bring two guests. In other words - some rudimentary marketing where the filmmaker can add some comments to maybe one email a week to all who have requested the screening as it gets closer gets closer?
Also is it possible to let others who live in the target area know about the screening who may not have requested it. As the site gets larger, it seems that a viewer may have checked out one out of maybe a few hundred films and it caught his attention, but if he knew that a similar film was screening in his area this week, he might be interested in knowing about the screening too. That way we as filmmakers are also helping other filmmakers on the site as well find their audience as well. Sort of like what it says on Amazon "People who bought the book you just bought also bought this book (list)"
Maybe that's for Openindie 2.0 - but just throwing it out as an idea.
Derrick Warfel
Winter Star Prods
"Midnight Reckoning"