From: Regina Pancake (regina@appliedfx.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 23:27:19 MST
Being in the industry in question here, I can vouch for the fact that a lot
of us have seen this coming.
The piracy issue with movies will gut the film industry, just like it did
already to the music industry.
Unfortunately, this is going to gut not just the crap out there that is
sprinkled with glitter, like Emlyn said so well, but a whole heck of a
lot of other high production value movies are just not going to get the
budgets they'd need to do them justice. I, particularly, love science
fiction (of course) and you need the budgets for that. And don't tell me
the computers will make it cheaper blah blah blah, because that's probably
more than 10 years away, while this crash is coming in the next 2 to 3
years or less.
Independent films will have a better shot at it, true. But I can only watch
so many of those.
Personally, I will miss working on the "big budget, who friggin' cares what
it costs, just make it for me now!" films. Its fun. More than I can explain
in a late night email.
As corporate mentality has entered into this line of work, the accountants
have become very aggressive and product placement has gone insane. So when
the bubble pops and they all come tumbling down, at least those idiots
won't be around to bug me any more. meanwhile, I'm still trying to find the
escape route for my company out of this slow moving train wreck.
I'm open to suggestions,
Regina
P.S. Remember: Theatre is Life, Film is Art and Television is Furniture
At 11:47 AM 11/27/02 +1030, you wrote:
>I reckon the musicians who are worried are the few who are well paid. And
>they are not even the really big names; they benefit from the technology
>too. The "musicians" who will really suffer are manufactured twaddle who
>wouldn't last past their first few singles anyway, the people who need $mega
>in production and videos to sell to a market that laps that stuff up, and
>doesn't understand that there is an alternative.
>
>Personally, the ability for me to turn out high quality recordings with
>modern technology is a giant plus. As for piracy - pleeeeeese pirate my
>work. It helps me.
>
>As to movies, I'd love to see the business model for expensive hollywood
>pictures come crashing down. There is so much excellent independant work, of
>high quality production wise as well as in terms of art, that is locked out
>of the distribution channels; the current business is about force feeding us
>mediocre crap sprinkled with glitter.
>
>Emlyn
>www.emlynoregan.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John K Clark [mailto:jonkc@att.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 5:08 AM
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: Re: Movies (was: throw out your DVD player - it's obsolete)
> >
> >
> > "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lee@piclab.com> Wrote:
> >
> > >Actual musicians, on the other hand, benefit greatly
> > from digital
> > >copying.
> >
> > Well maybe, but most of them sure don't act like they're
> > benefiting, most
> > musicians seem pretty upset.
> >
> > > I suspect the same thing will happen to movies
> >
> > A movie can easily cost 100 million to make, you can't equal
> > that in your
> > garage, at least not yet.
> >
> > John K Clark jonkc@att.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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