hi On Nov 23, 2007 12:51 PM, august <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for introducing yourself, August. It sounds like you have a decent bit of experience with Cinelerra. You might be interested in using some footage that we are giving away for free on the Internet Archive. I am producing a documentary movie aboutcalled the Digital Tipping Point about how Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is changing global culture. We are building the DTP out of fully forkable footage here on the Internet Archive. Link below. (Forkable here means that you can both copy the footage and create a derivative work). Our idea is that we want to produce a movie-in-a-box for people with really low end systems who would like to get decent interview footage to include in their own little movies about why FOSS is cool, and how it is going to change their lives. 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. Our film is the first feature length documentary to be built on-line out of fully forkable footage released under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license on the Internet Archive. 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. We have been to 5 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. http:// tinyurl.com/yluwoc <http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc> The theme of our film is that the US is falling behind in certain technological areas due to its dependence on Microsoft and other locked down code in areas where FOSS is ready for production on the desktop and elsewhere. We are going to contrast our experiences in seeing the status of FOSS desktop development we found outside the US with our experiences here in the US in trying to migrate just one public middle school to FOSS. If you are interested in our film, we would love to collaborate with you. See ya.
