Looks interesting! Does the NC restriction apply to the raw footage as well, or just the completed episodes?
William Theaker On 08/01/2012 11:14 AM, Ernie Zahn wrote: > Hey all, > > I just wanted to share with you a new project I'm working on through my > organization NPeaches. > > It's a travel webseries called *Ronaldo Tours.* > > *About the Webseries* > Ronaldo Tours is a tongue and cheek docu-series that follows a > pseudo-fictional character named Ronaldo who has left his home country of > Italy. He has immersed himself in various cities to discover the Italian > culture that resides in each place he visits. While, Ronaldo's focus is on > Italian culture; realizing Italian culture's role in locations with diverse > immigration > patterns is also an important aspect. > > Season two will be based entirely in New York City. > > *About Season Two* > The first season was a great experience. But it was a pretty straight > forward travel series. We'd visit new cities and locations, > interview proprietors and restauranteurs and gingerly add social > commentary. > > This season will have a more focused intent by marrying the fun traveling > and interviewing aspects with vital social commentary. Episodes will be > less location based and more thematic based. We won't be just exploring > Italian culture in NYC we will uncovering Italian culture in the context of > race, class, gender, gentrification and cross cultural interaction. > > *On Free Culture, CC and More* > NPeaches is a web based entertainment network. We are a small team of 5. We > self produce and distribute webseries on a platform that we’ve created and > maintain ourselves. Beyond that we are platform that uses our content as a > public service for the benefit of free culture, social justice and artistic > integrity. All of our content, including *Ronaldo Tours* is freely > available to not only stream, but to download, remix, and > re-distribute. Ronaldo Tours is licensed under the Creative Commons CC > BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. > > But we want to go further than that. We really like the idea of open > sourcing what we make. If this was software we'd release source code and > media assets. Well since we are talking about video then we intend to > release the assets that make up the show. > > For the benefit of education and research we're going to release shooting > scripts, .fcp sessions, EDLs and more. > > For the benefit of making artists'/content creators' projects cheaper with > readily available media, we are going to be releasing original raw and > compiled content under a CC attribution license. We build a lot of b-roll > per shoot, for example. We'll compile all the best b-roll as raw footage > for a stock footage library we'll release for free via torrent under a CC > attribution license. If we produce original music, we'll release > multi-tracks. If we have original foley art we'll release a free sound > library etc. > > *Kickstarter* > We've just launched a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for season 2. > Ronaldo > Tours on > Kickstarter<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/npeaches/ronaldo-tours-a-travel-webseries>. > Our minimum for this is $500. That's $450 for transportation for the three > of us over the course of a 6 episode season. The remaining $50 is so we can > literally go to a grocery store and get deli meat, hummus and bread for > food for the three of us for one season. > > Our higher goal of $5000 means we can get a second camera, upgrade our > rendering power for post-production and better mics. > > Any contributions or sharing this with a friend would be greatly > appreciated. We've got some pretty amazing rewards including having Ronaldo > portray YOU in a 1 minute Fellini-style short film. Feel free to let me > know if you have any questions about the show, our rewards, our release > intentions etc! Thanks for reading this crazy long message. > > Best, > Ernie > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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