With The Nine Orders forum online, the first podcast available, and some exciting new team members coming on board (already announced to members), the project is ready to move up a gear. With over 100+ Angels signed up primarily from seeding the project via email, we’re now focussed on the crucial target of the reaching the First 1000. This will trigger off the production process proper and creation of the first original media (trailers and video teasers/shorts)
Please help our push to 1000 by joining the Swarm (if you haven’t already), and by tagging us at del.icio.us, or by making a post on your blog.
With the recent addition of pioneering film producer Tommy Pallotta coming on board (hot from production on Keanu Reeves-starrer, A Scanner Darkly), we’ve also got a new team page, for you to check out our project credentials, and the developing team.
ps. Thought I’d highlight that we’ll be freezing Swarm membership at the 1000 mark in the development phase, so a good time to join if you don’t want to miss this intake and go onto the waiting list instead.
UPDATE: Overnight we’ve had about 50 additional sign ups to the Swarm! Cascading from Boing Boing, we’ve also started to get quite a few blog comments. I’ll collect what we have at the end of the weekend.
UPDATE 2: Doubled our numbers to 200+ at the weekend . Many thanks to those sharing their enthusiasm/knowledge at The Nine Orders. I am humbled by the initial reaction on the blogosphere. I am trying to keep up with validating members who haven’t gone through automatically, please bear with me! At this rate we will have our First 1000
UPDATE 3: At the above rate we’d have a development hothouse within 10 days: members have asked to slow down promotion to more organic level so we can bed the community, have votes on direction and create initial media and scripts before scaling up numbers:
UPDATE 4: remixable trailer at blip.tv showpage, voting and script previews at The Nine Orders.
Tags: ASOA, digital film, feature film
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May 7th, 2006 at 8:22 am
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May 7th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Peter Bihr
This project is awesome - good luck!
May 10th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Philm
Any chance of getting a counter on the site to say how many people you have signed up already all I can make out from the quick look was somewhere over 100
May 11th, 2006 at 8:18 am
David Meme
We are interesting in working on this project as we have a fairly large library of works licensed under Creative Commons,
see our website for more info.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
matt
@philm: As of mid-thursday we are over a third of the way to our target = 333+.
I cannot tell you exact figures, as the board figures do not include all the people in the first wave (email seeding), as not all have converted over to the automated system yet. Also some people chose to subscribe but not enter the boards.
I will consolidate all the numbers, and make sure we have a clear counter, once this second wave up to 1000 is complete.
September 24th, 2006 at 5:41 am
Richard
I think its a great idea and as soon as soom people actually pay me this month, I’m in. As an emerging filmmaker, I think its a great idea, similar things have been done here(South Africa), but not on this scale. I look forward to being a part of this.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 am
Betsy Parker
Hey isnt www.LetsFilm.com already doing this?
May 8th, 2007 at 6:22 am
matt
Betsy, hi. letsfilm are doing this, but A Swarm of Angels is the original project, and idea generator for this emerging idea of Cinema 2.0. letsfilm are a relative newcomer, and with a number of other projects are going the open social network/’myspace of film’ route. For various reasons I think this is the wrong way to make an open source film: These projects are quite different from A Swarm of Angels, which I believe is more developed, sustainable, and thought through. You can probably tell this by browsing the site!