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Broadband Boosts The Independent Film Industry
By Michael Russell
Today Movie hosting is becoming a very user-friendly part of the Internet. It is now very common to see a whole host of sites showing people's videos for a sample of their memories, as well as the now popular 'viral' or mini-clip genre. With the intervention of Broadband speeds, streaming video over the web has never been easier to access and control.
Many successful movie-hosting sites exist today on the internet. The top few boast successes culminating in hundreds of amateur and professional movies being streamed to home PCs daily such as youtube.com, the most recently successful online movie host. After just a short time in the online movie hosting business, youtube.com has grown into an internet business giant. So what does this mean for the filmmaker? Well, it is simple really; the purpose of making movies is to reach an audience, here lies the power of the web through sites like youtube.com hosting video riding on the back of high-speed broadband. The budget market is specifically targeted as more filmmakers, amateur and professional, shoot short movies. These are anything from as little as a minute to maybe twenty-five minutes in length so the chances of traditional distribution are fiercely competitive.
Online movie production and distribution for commercial fiction and non-fiction is huge on the internet. Filmmakers are discovering broadband video streaming as a powerful ally in achieving that all-important recognition for their work. With the big dogs like Fox and DreamWorks lending themselves to multi-million dollar budgets, the past has seen much talent pushed to one side through lack of funding. The infrastructure created from inward investment for powerful streaming platforms and huge reduction in streaming video costs have paved the way for the lower budget independent filmmaker, although, many movie production companies remain close to traditional distribution methods fearing the effect on DVD annual revenue. The fear that sales will drop as a result of online distribution keeps many producers away.
So who else is actively involved in online movie production work? Well, in the UK, two prime examples are BBC's Screen Gems and Channel 4's 'Four docs', short films up to 4 minutes in length. These are just a couple of innovations in the genre of movie distribution providing the converging TV and Internet industries. Actually, the list is almost exhaustive. There is the exciting iFilm.com site, which reaches a worldwide distribution of film fanatics. While scrolling across the internet, looking for evidence of online hosting, many sites emerged helping filmmakers showcase their movies. One of the other biggest players is atomfilms.com who performs competitions and also offers promotional services to distributors at film festivals on an annual basis.
The power of broadband internet shows its weight by being able to connect filmmakers across the world. The internet allows movies from independent filmmakers around the world to be seen on web pages. This gives them the ability to share their work with a broader audience. Utilising Movie hosts, filmmakers use the internet as a weapon to submit their work to many people on a worldwide level. A movie hosting company's goals are pretty standardised - present a forum where the filmmaking community can come closer together. Therein, filmmakers showcase movies with fellow enthusiasts and thus beginning the first steps in front of the needed movie production industry contacts. The filmmaker presents movie ideas directly and can talk to people with the same energy and constructively criticize their movies in online forums.
The current standard player on computers is the RealPlayer Realmedia.com. The other two major players are QuickTime, which is the Apple standard for playback of movies and the Microsoft windows media player. Most web surfers have these players installed ready for video streaming. Playing audio and video files across the global digital networks is now very familiar to most people. There are technical constraints affecting the standard, the main ones being the internet speed and latency (time taken for data to be sent from the server to the user's pc). This will result in either very sharp quality video playback or jittery 'no quality' playback.
Filmmakers perform networking by attending film festivals and actively engaging in online filmmaking forums. The goal is to bring the filmmakers in the filmmaking community closer together so that they can share ideas and present their work to a wide audience - the World Wide Web. Thus this creates a great place to learn and promote film making at its best.
Michael Russell
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