[Talk] Perfect display?????

[Michael Beal]

There's already an open film project out there with more to come.  It's
called "Elephant's Dream."

Michael


--- Terry Richards <sn00per1@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Michael Beal wrote:
> 
> >Why not just go with a projector?  Nearly unlimited size without the
> >space hogging foot print and all for about the same money.
> >
> >Oh, since my point earlier about "screencasting" was missed...  My
> >point was simple and plain: the very idea of creating a "screencast"
> >for theatres is ludicrous. 
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> i think the premise of an "open" feature film is wonderful. using 
> screencasting or otherwize
> 
> from bobdaggets' post on the other list...
> 
> is there a distro that comes with a working screencast program
> installed 
> and preconfigured?
> i have this neat idea for a blockbuster feature-length movie
> consisting 
> of nothing more than audio and screencasts of various kinds, scenes 
> stitched together and recorded. then transfered to celluloid and run
> in 
> theatres around the world. the profits going to a npo/ngo related to 
> bringing computer literacy and open source to the people.
> ...
> there is little reason that a screencast feature film centered on
> wikis 
> and wikipedia could not be produced to introduce the genre to the 
> moviegoing public. The plot could involve any number of elements, 
> without visible actors, and with a soundtrack of the sound of 
> collaborators typing, and perhaps speaking with voip, editing of file
> 
> attachments and graphics and audio clips/background
> noises/soundtracks 
> and so on. It's Only Logical that the project should be created on a 
> wiki like this by a volunteer group. The goal is to make a
> blockbuster 
> film that wins awards, rakes in tons of money for a non-profit
> charity, 
> and all because it is exciting not just a cult folowing, but to the 
> wider moviegoing public. It should be so engrossing to the general
> that 
> a new mainstream genre is established.
> 
> In Screencast a proposal that a moviehouse film of a feature length 
> screencast about a wiki that could be a smash hit was made. This is
> an 
> evolving possibility. Sticking to first principles, the screenplay 
> should be made on a wiki, and could involve Wikipedia itself. The
> idea 
> that the film would be about its own making is tempting to users of 
> recursive acronyms and technologies, but this is something too 
> intimidating to the general public. Instead, standard plot elements
> are 
> necessary, but the format should adhere to only screecasts of 
> applications and web applications with audio.
> 
> The name "It's Only Logical" is just a starting point.
> 
> What is needed first is some interest from a charity that wants to
> host 
> the project. The idea that the project itself is the movie, as above,
> is 
> not useful from the point of view of the eventual release of the DVD 
> after the theatre run. After all, DVD's usually have extras, and that
> is 
> the logical place for the story of the making of It's Only Logical.
> 
> Next, what is needed is a competition of sorts on the screenplay 
> development wiki to create a variety of plots and scripts, to select
> the 
> best one(s).
> 
> Once the best script has been selected, edited and refined, one would
> 
> need to make a final cut and submit it to a company willing to roll
> it 
> out on celluloid and distribute it to the theatres, working on a 
> contractual basis with the charitable organization that hosted the 
> script development wiki.
> 
> And of course, the credits at the end of the film must include all
> the 
> contributors, but if the list is too long, the creadits would point
> to a 
> website with that info.
> 
> So how about it? Insert links to your interested charitable
> organization 
> here.
> 
> /|\
> ps. i would be willing to put it on my server where folks could at
> least 
> pick up the source code and advance the work
> 
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