Archive for December, 2007
BitTorrent for Indies
TorrentFreak.com, admittedly a slightly biased source, has a good article on the benefits of BitTorrent distribution for indie films. Similar to arguments for online (or perhaps pirated) distribution of indie artists: The more people who see/hear your work, the better.
It’s interesting to think about how this affects the marketplace, but for indie producers with [...]
John August Speech at Paramount
John August posts on his blog the (approximate) text of a speech he gave at the Indie Gate at Paramount Studios. It’s got zombies, castles, and co-dependent film. Give it a read.
And iPhones are teeny tiny screens. . .
You know how you can call anything in a movie theater “the big screen” and anything on tv is “the small screen?” I’m thinking that system needs an overhaul. Say movies are the big screen. . . IMAX can be the “grossly oversized screen,” tv sets are the “medium screen” (while plasma TVs [...]
AMPTP and Music Studios
Both of these entities are fighting losing battles to maintain the status quo amidst the onslaught of the internet. Chad Gervich has a great post about the WGA Strike and draws some similarities to the decline of music studios in the internet era. He may be overstating it somewhat (he is understandably sympathetic [...]
