--- In [email protected], "schlomo rabinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think its exactly Negative if a director doesnt want to blog his > activites or post dailies onto the web. Maybe the director just wants to > show a finished product; many people are like that. > Kent, you're making a movie (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!), do feel the > need to blog the production process? I assume you guys have talked to the > producer about this sort of stuff. Is there anything you can share about > that? >
Hey, It's such an individual thing. Our producer on Tomatoes is pretty net savvy, but I doubt he'd be down with putting the whole movie on YouTube. But there's an inherent conflict between directors and producers. Directers want to capture their vision and then share that vision with as pany people as possible. Producers want that vision to come in on time and on budget and then get people to pay to see it. When you are acting as both director and producer, the director in you can easily persuade the producer in you to let it free and figure out the money situation later. When you are a work for hire director that's been paid well for you services by a producer, it's harder to win that fight because you don't have any copyright claim. But marketing people and creatives covertly upload and seed their work all the time. They just can't do it officially or publicly condone it. Their legal departments would freak. This new model, where you give it all away and still make money is strange and antithetical to everything that has come before it. It has worked, and will continue to, but the paychecks are smaller than in the old way. Even though we are very successful in the online world, Douglas and I get paid what beginning sitcom writers get paid. Which is good money, but not great. So if you're talking to someone who's used getting paid in the old system, and then you tell them to give there stuff away, of course you're going to get strange looks. Once those people have been used up by the system, or they were never even given a chance (like me), the net offers a connection with an audience in a very deep and meaningful way and the ability to get paid if you streamline out the unnecessary middlemen. Showbiz is a slowly evolving beast. The young PR and marketing peeps that are infiltrating big media's ranks right now are becoming really net savvy. I was reached out to over Twitter by two separate flacks for doing two separate things with the MTV Video Music Awards. In ten years those people will be the VPs in charge and in 20 years they'll be the CEOs. -Kent, askaninja.com
