The Day before D-Day
June 25th, 2008 |I thought I’d take a moment.
The 4 day movie starts at 12.01 am tonight (technically tomorrow).
Everyone is very excited and the artists involved are looking like they’re up to making something beautiful. I have great hopes for what will come out of this. We’re blogging the whole thing on the 4 day movie blog.
I just looked at the original mindmap i did for the movie. Its a method i was trying out using Novamind to organise my thoughts. Its funny how things have turned out, most of what was there has been very important so far: distribution, legalities of an ‘open source’ collectively made movie, technical guidelines and specifications, who we get to do it in the first place, how to make it beautiful…
So, here are a few links and resources I’ve been using to solve those problems. I’m just throwing them down here for now, i have a feature film to produce, so you’ll understand if i’m brief!
- Creative Commons: this is generally what we’re using as a template for our agreement with filmmakers and artists involved in the project. Unfortunately, we discovered that Creative Commons doesn’t apply in Ireland as it hasn’t been worked out here yet. So we’re doing our best to do something along the lines of the licenses available here.
- Music: we’ve found out a lot about music distribution rights and how to source open or free music for movies. Also how licensing of music works for movies and how to make an agreement with independent artists. Here are the main resources we’re using:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC license
- http://ccmixter.org/
- 8 Bit Peoples
- Moby!
- Penny Distribution: Nick Fitzsimons from Penny Distribution has been amazingly helpful in this area and has a lot of great artists on the site.
The gist of music in movies is that its not complicated if you play fair, give credit where its due and work with artists to find solutions. Which is the way it should be in all things to do with this movie, so it makes me very happy.
- Movie making: our tech guidelines are available here.
- People: here’s the list of confirmed artists taking part.
- the narrative flow: the story of this movie is how its made as much as what’s produced. So the blog, the updates, the myspace, the basecamp headquarters, the facebook group- all are as important as the movie itself. I aim to publish everything i can and document as much as i can over the following four days.



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