Open Colloboration Movie Production

Finland. Fron the same folks that produced Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning now comes a virtual production studio. They have developed a collaborative creation platform for film. Barrier to entry? None. Just join and provide your talents.

The Star Wreck Studios team, based in Tampere, Finland, has built a virtual studio for Iron Sky and an open-source platform that gives anybody the chance to make a film at no cost. They have recruited American Stephen Lee as managing director, and the chairman of the board is John Buckman, mostly known as the founder of Magnatune, a record label he created in Berkeley, Calif., in 2003.

Board member and serial entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka says the aim of the open-source project is “wrecking the Hollywood model.”

“Hollywood only distributes 700 films a year, but there are 100,000 people in Hollywood with film ideas,” said Vesterbacka, who formerly worked for Hewlett-Packard and is also co-founder of the global social event Mobile Monday.

With this Web-based platform, people interested in film can make high-quality productions at almost no cost. The content can be anything from short films to feature films and can be distributed on the Internet or mobile devices or in theaters.

Vesterbacka says open source for film hasn’t worked so far, because of the complex production requirements.

So lets see. The big studios are losing their grip on distribution. They could still survive being the point of production and do some sort of pay-per-view TVoIP platform. But wait if Star Wreck Studios can approach 80% of production value for 10% the cost does that not threaten the big studios last bastion of revenue? I come to the same conclusion.

Star Wreck may not be the last such operation, but one of many. There will be a wholesale morphing of film. Or I should say how it is stitched together and deployed. Not only that but maybe this kind of tool would give folks like Michael Yon a venue to produce a full length film that is better than the Iraq-something trash that has bombed at the box office so far. Real life heroes in a real life place.

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