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The Unfold teaser from Nine Orders on Vimeo
If you’ve subscribed to the twitter feed you’ll probably already seen the new teaser trailer for The Unfold, an amuse bouche for the full trailer that is in final development. We hope you like it, and if you do then please embed on your blog (embed codes for Vimeo HD, blip.tv or YouTube).
This is the first missing piece in the moving image puzzle that fills the gap between professionally produced and user-generated content. Trailer development has been shaped throughout by community feedback from the Swarm at The Nine Orders forums, which has accompanied posts on development.
Animator Mayec Rancel gives us a glimpse of the full unfolding world in the sci-fi project, with buildings breaking and shearing. Santiago Abadia adds an ethereal soundtrack, with a subtle ambience of alarms and the urban cadence. Thanks for all of their handwork collaborating.
Tags: animation, ASOA, asoa community, crowdsourcing, motion graphics, movie production, open source, theunfold
We want to find an easy way for members to contribute to the content of the Swarm project at every stage. The easiest way we could think of for you to contribute visually was by uploading a photo of yourself (almost as easy as uploading an avatar!).
So we’re launching a gather of photographs from members today… please contribute to our open source trailer by uploading now.
Photographs will be used to illustrate ‘The Missing’ — people who have disappeared during The Ravages (the climatic events that head a global meltdown) — as part of a fake propaganda trailer for the film project.
Sign in and upload your photo at the forum in this thread. It would be very cool to get as many Angels as possible in the trailer…
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Tags: ASOA, asoa community, co creation, collaboration, open source, theravages, ugc
Content is going to become even more open in 2008. But how open is open, when does traditional content masquerade as such? Clever marketing ideas like movie clip remix competitions where the remixer has no right to distribute or permission to use their own endeavours don’t really count as open content. So here’s a start at laying out a framework for what truly constitutes open content and open source media. I’m going to talk in terms of film/video, because that is the context for A Swarm of Angels, but it applies to other media like open music and open books too.
With the change in the media climate and distribution experiments such as Radiohead’s In Rainbows (in music), and Four Eyed Monsters (in film) which have open qualities (temporarily available to watch or listen/download for free, for example) but are not truly open content, it is getting harder to tell what you can and cannot officially do with your media.
These are three proposed states for open media, each building on the next:
Tags: ASOA, asoa community, bittorrent, copyleft, creative commons, digital distribution, open source
I’ve finished doing the ‘Remixing Cinema’ presentations about the process of the project which gathered pace during the Summer. As an appropriate addendum to that, Arin Crumley (co-director of Four Eyed Monsters) posted a video of that presentation on his blog. I’ve embedded it below, with the caveat that I was fighting a killer flu at the time, hence the copious drinking of fluids during the talk.
The player contains a thought-provoking panel on Adventures in Self-distribution, as well as the Remixing cinema presentation, and others. The series of talks, and particular this panel really threw up some issues over the development of these new pioneering projects. There’s definitely some disconnect for example between the time people expect a project to take on the Internet, as opposed to how long it actually takes in real life.
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Tags: ASOA, crowdsourcing, digital distribution, event, festival, movie production, open source, panel, powertothepixel
With the heat in the Internet video sector showing no signs of cooling down, it’s great to see our friends over at Participatory Culture improving the excellent open source Internet TV player, Miro (formerly Democracy, and renamed in honour of it going to full version 1.0 status). Heartfelt congratulations to Nicolas and the team.
Miro is an open, non-proprietary player that stands as a direct contrast to the closed gardens and general VC-funded big money players of Joost, Babelgum, Veoh, etc, who are all in varying degrees more interested in big media rather than independent visions. If you support independent video, and open standards (Miro utilises the VLC video player which plays nice across the gamut of video formats) then please give Miro a try. We’ll definitely be using it as A Swarm of Angels progresses. [via Boing Boing]
Get Miro (all flavours available)
Tags: application, miro, open source, video
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