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TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/27/2006, 6:01 AM
that's a cool article. Thanks for the link!
farss wrote on 10/27/2006, 7:32 AM
I'd read of their efforts before but not in so much detail. In all their latest venture was a pretty serious effort.
But I still have reservations about what it all leads to. They're not distributing, they're giving away. So OK, they get enough attention and someone back them with serious money. They've done well out of it and deservedly so. But then everyone jumps on the bandwaggon and we're back to square one, the channel is flooded and there's no filter to sort out the good from the bad. It might be nice to see that 10,000 people have watched your vid but how do you turn that into dollars to fund something bigger / better. Or is all there's going to be to watch in the future is schoolgirls getting goofy in front of a camera? Sure I know there's some truly brilliant stuff out there but for every piece of genius there's 1,000 piles of trash.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/27/2006, 9:31 AM
they could very well make enough $$ from adds & selling their own videos. Other people do it, many don't want to be "rich" they just want to get some $$ out of what they do.

But he may be at the "brink." Can't go any bigger w/o serious cash would loose a lot of $$, can't go any smaller or it costs to much for what they bring in (I'm in the same boat with my goats: no market to get bigger, can't go any smaller or I loose a lot of $$).
Patryk Rebisz wrote on 10/27/2006, 12:15 PM
farss, simple numbers do add up and do make impressions.

The other day i had this conversation where someone asked me how much i actually made on my short that was seen by literally hundreds of thousands of people on line. And my answer was that directly i only made a few thousand but indirectly 60-70% of jobs i got since i completed the film went to me not to some other guy thanks to that short film.

Also telling people that you can hold a few hundred thousand's people attention means a lot when you go in looking for fundings for you next project.

I think there are lots of interesting issues at stake here. The guy makes a cool-looking "home video" with lots of cool (although a bit cheesy) special effects and gets seen by hundreds of thousands if not millions. Borat and his movie he makes his "home video" and gets seen by millions and smiles all the way to the bank.