[esocialaction] open movie project

[Yuwei Lin]

Hi Ann and All,

I'd like to elaborate the project in my mind in the following. It's 
still quite primitive though.

Basically, the main actors in this project I'm thinking are: social 
scientists (particularly historians, sociologists or ethnographers), 
open source software (OSS) programmers/developers, artists, NGO members 
and other interested actors. The  OSS technology is important, but more 
importantly, it should involve with people's collective memories and 
experiences. In so doing, we can motivate a community to take part in 
this project - the main point is to involve people from different 
backgrounds. In this way, the project is different from the open movie 
project. Although we have OSS tools' developers involved in the 
filmmaking as well, we engage a community of people contributing to the 
filmmaking while the open movie project only brings a limited number of 
developers and artist working together.

As to the plot of the film/documentary, I personally prefer collecting 
true stories that really link people together, engaging on people's real 
experiences. I'm currently thinking of such a plot (inspired by a story 
I read yesterday on Guardian: "Fatal Attraction"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1551547,00.html). 
  Based on this story, the film would be
- educational: to reduce the traffic accidents in an alternative way
- emotional: because it's about deaths and losing loved ones
- philosophical: because it see every death from different point of 
views (some leave a package of cigarette for example), Crossing personal 
experiences is very catchy.
- exciting: because there's scenes about driving like racing cars
- scenery: because the setting is in Italy;-)

> I've been discussing the idea of making mini-movies with various people
> for use on mobile phones and wonder if that might be an interesting way
> to take it as they are supposed to be short and the constraints of the
> small screen are an artistic challenge... We liked the idea of an
> interactive component and were wondering about using ideas submitted by
> return as a way of developing new strands. So far I've begun drafting
> story lines, but that's all.

I'd love to see this draft - can it be shared on the list?

Best wishes,
yuwei

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