Social Media + Old Media + ? = Profit!
So goes the gag. Lately I’ve been concentrating on building an online social soapbox, so to speak. I have a twitter account, a friendfeed account, facebook etc. but I’m not entirely sure where to take them. This of course leads to the big question that I’m straining to answer: how do you make a movie utilizing all the new media options available to us?
The answer eludes me. Are there opporitunities? Sure, but will they work and are they the best way of going about it.
I have several ideas of powering the creative process by utilizing social media, but how do you then turn that into a profitable film. Micro financing is a great way of going about it and several sites exist that build on that premise but something that’s uterly web 1.0ish it. It’s not an interactive social conversation, it’s using new ways of finding money other than picking up the yellow pages and calling doctors and dentists to bankroll your film. Thats great and all but it doesn’t push the envelope far enough for me, it feels like we’re just slapping a new coat of paint on and calling it a brand new way to make films.
I hope to have several conversations in the coming week with people who are much smarter than I about such things.
Just something to chew on for a while.
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