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October 13, 2005
Building blocks: iPod video
Over at indieWIRE, Eugene Hernandez amplifies the hum set off by the introduction of iPod video.
New distribution models for modest yet imaginative movies like Four-Eyed Monsters are key to the start of the conversation, which I've been having with younger filmmakers for the past couple of years. Writes Hernandez: "With a strategy that is a twist on the... practice of releasing DVD extras, Crumley and Buice will distribute bonus footage in advance of their film's release [to build] momentum for the distribution of... Monsters.... The filmmakers plan to distribute their short clips... as part of a video podcast series on iTunes and the MySpace social networking site. The 5-minute video segments will begin with present-day intros created by the filmmakers and include footage from each of the festival's they have attended... A promo clip for the series available via iTunes includes footage of Buice and Crumley's fest screenings, on camera audience reactions, details of their distribution woes, footage of their financial hardships (Buice asks on camera, "Do we go to this festival, or do we pay our rent on time"), and scenes of their decision to move to Massachusetts to live with Buice's family." [The short is here.] New ways of getting stories out there are coming: here's to the next generation that builds on what the likes of Steve Jobs are doing today.
Posted by pride at October 13, 2005 10:43 AM
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