The Future of Hollywood… User Generated Films?

By Miss Cellania in Film on May 6, 2008 at 3:37 pm

User-generated content on the internet can reach more people than high-budget films. How long will it be before Hollywood comes up with a completely user-generated film? Darius Monsef of COLOURlovers has written an article for Cineleet that looks at examples that show how close we are getting.

Spike Lee doesn’t think we’re too far off. He has teamed up with Nokia to direct a film made with mobile phone footage from every day people. “You are seeing first hand the democratization of film,” Lee said in a statement on Thursday. “Aspiring filmmakers no longer have to go to film school to make great work. With a simple mobile phone, almost anyone can now become a filmmaker.”

See video evidence in the post. Link -via Digg

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bean
May 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
There’s probably a subtle commentary about the future of professional artists and entertainers in general here, but I can’t bear to think about it. Once, poets were revered as the height of passion and intellectualism. Then, literacy went on a rampage and the tools of the trade became accessible to everyone.
artbot
May 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
And 99.9% of it will be beyond shite. Reminds me of when “interactive storytelling” was going to replace movies and video games simultaneously.

Just because you *can* do something doesn’t mean you should.
Alannah
May 6th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Same reason virtual doctoring never caught on. You really want someone who knows what they are doing.
Rich
May 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I think I’ll learn how to weld… less chance of being up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Gerry
May 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Youtube is already a perfect example: 1% interesting with possibilites and the rest crap.

CNN and other news organizations have been begging for years for ‘user-generated content’ with little to nothing to show for it.

The bottom line is that few people have the time, resources or talent to pull it off. Having done a number of short film projects with my son for school, I can tell you that it is a LOT of work and several of his classmates have thrown in the towel when they found out just how un-easy it is to make a film…

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