hi

On Dec 3, 2007 7:56 PM, IL'dar AKHmetgaleev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> We had spoken about cinelerra movie project with <goibhniu> in irc
> yesterday.
>
> Idea is to raise some money to cinelerra development by DVD selling.
>

I think that this is an excellent idea, and IMHO, the footage from the
Digital Tipping Point would be perfect for this project.  We have 350 hours
of footage in 11 languages from 6 nations about why FOSS is important for
the world, and how the example of sharing will spread from FOSS to other
areas of human life, such as music, movies, government, and even sex and
other areas of life.  We have interviewed some of the top politicians,
business people, journalists, and software developers in the world
pertaining to FOSS.  Our cast list is here:

http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/8

We have filmed many dignitaries such as Christian Ude (the Mayor of Munich),
Hermann-Josef Pelgrim (the Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall), Gilberto Gil (the
Culture Minister of Brazil), and Luiz Millan Vazquez de Miguel, (the
Extremaduran Minister of Science, Education).  The theme of our film is that
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) will help foster an explosion of literacy
and creativity globally. As far as I know, our film is the first feature
length documentary about FOSS to be built using all FOSS tools, on-line, out
of fully forkable footage released under a Creative Commons
Attribute-ShareAlike license on the Internet Archive.  Please correct me if
I am not correct about this, because there are obviously lots of great films
being produced by people here on this list and elsewhere.

We have 54 hours so far loaded onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping
Point Video Collection.  You can see our raw video here:

 http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint

That footage is raw footage, and will need to be re-rendered before it is
used in any final project.  It is also much more poorly lighted than you are
used to, and the audio is also only on one channel, to reduce overhead.  As
I mentioned, we have been to 6 nations and 3 continents on a shoe string
budget, and so we didn't have the resources to drag lighting equipment
along.  We shot everything with a Sony PD-170, which is a decent pro-sumer
piece of equipment.

Our keyword search index page is located below.  It is the place to go to
find specific persons or themes for our footage.   The Internet Archive is
currently changing its search software, and so the index might not be
operational again until Friday, December 7, 2007.  Here is the index page
nonetheless:

http:// tinyurl.com/yluwoc <http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc>

People will probably need the raw .dv footage, and I am willing to discuss
how it might be possible for us to make that available to everyone.


> I proposed to make about six shorts each ~10 minutes with same social
> important theme to represent this theme in different people's vision
> from different societies.


This is exactly what we are hoping to do with the Digital Tipping Point
film.  We would like to make our first film a collection of viewpoints from
different directors in different languages.


> I think with this project we can not only make very interesting piece
> of art but some social phenomena of joining vision of people around the
> world for considering some social aspect of life from different points
> of view.


This kind of collaboration is exactly what we are trying to accomplish with
the Digital Tipping Point.

Thanks for starting this thread, IL'Dar.

-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

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