Sunday, 9 October 2011

A Look At The Impact Of Independent Films

By Paula Bard


Independent film making regularly occurs outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a film at first produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all made a contribution to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century.

On the business side, the expenses of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative selections in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood toward co-financing (over two thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. In 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987). A upbeat director is very rarely given the opportunity to find work on a big-budget studio film unless she has major industry experience in film or TV. Also, the studios infrequently produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.

Before the appearance of digital possibilities, the price of pro film hardware and stock was also a hurdle to having the ability to produce, direct, or star in a standard studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is out pacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety.

But the appearance of customer video recorders in 1985, and very significantly, the coming of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier to film production seriously. Both production and post-production costs have been seriously decreased; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive.

Since the arrival of DV technology, the method of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can possibly shoot and edit a film, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. Nonetheless while the method of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and promoting remain hard to achieve outside of the standard system. Most independent filmmakers depend on film holidays to get their films spotted and sold for distribution. The arriving of web based video outlets like YouTube and Veoh has further modified the film making landscape in ways that are still to be decided.

An open content film is very like an independent film, it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a license which is permissive enough to permit other parties to form fan fiction or derivative works, than a standard copyright. Like independent film making, open source film making happens outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems.




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