[sudo-discuss] Open source documentary

Sat Jan 18 04:10:48 PST 2014

Great! I'm excited that you're excited :)
Indeed it's a good idea to involve other groups, such as the film-studies
groups at Bay Area Public School. I was thinking of film students indeed,
and local communities would be ideal, especially because I think the
"personnality" of Oakland should have a strong presence in the film.

Hol I agree it's really interesting to see how the post production could be
done collaboratively online. It is indeed all about how to hack the movie.
And it requires to create a tool that we can experiment with and that in
the long run could serve other open source movie productions.

Thank you for your warm reactions!
Noémie

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> Last I checked (over two years ago), Pitivi was probably best, and it
> stored stuff it an undocumented-but-nice format.
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>> do any of the main video editing software packages have a human-readable format of how the edits are made?  I think it would be pretty cool to allow people to contribute source footage from all over, then people can hack together the post production, forking as desired.  alot of fine tuning can go into how you cut and rubberband the audio and video so crowdsourcing this really piques my interest...also does anyone know of open source editing software?  I used to use adobe premiere 5.1 and it was a nightmare.
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>> Jan 17, 2014 08:49:52 AM, ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm with Max and think its a wonderful idea Naomi. I'd be happy to participate as a sudo room biohacker :)
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>> I discovered sudo-room last September. It was the
>> first time I set foot in a hackerspace, and it kind of blew my mind. At sudo
>> room, I discovered the concept of open source, a concept I didn't really know
>> till then. That, together with a lot of really great encounters and
>> conversations, kind of changed things for me, and made me realize that even in
>> what I do in life (films), I can do things completely differently. Up to now
>> the film industry has been very hierarchical, in many different ways, and it
>> always made me uncomfortable. Only recently did I
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>> This is so heart-warming to read.
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>> So I've been playing with the idea of making an open source documentary film
>> at/about sudo room. Before I go any further, I would just like to say that I
>> saw you're trying to agree on a sort of chart about the conditions under which
>> you'd be willing to have people film at sudo room, and it all seems very
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>> what you think, and also, if anyone among you would like to participate. I’m
>> hoping that (at least some of) the ones who will be in the film will also
>> participate in the making of the film.
>> The project would probably be scattered
>> over a few months, so that it doesn't feel heavy, but also so that there is
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>> how to make it open source? And beyond just putting the footage under CC
>> license and leaving it available somewhere on the internet, how to make it an
>> exciting experiment, an opportunity to create new processes in film making that
>> are non hierarchical and more participative? To me the question is also a
>> pragmatic one: how can this participative process allow to create compelling films
>> with a vision, films that people actually want to watch, beyond the open source
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>> to be empowered film viewers and makers. To me it's the continuation of
>> genius director Chris Marker's work with the
>> Medvedkin Groups in the 60's. *
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>> I've been talking about the possibility of building this tool with a really great
>> and talented hacker that some of you know, Robert M Ochshorn.  He's already made some great advancement on
>> the future of video (two works of his:  http://interlace.videovortex9.net also check http://montageinterdit.net) and he'd be excited to continue
>> with this project. I’m excited too actually! I think it could change the whole
>> idea of how to make films, and what it is to be a spectator, and what is a
>> truly participative movie... So I’m offering to do an experiment, and I think
>> sudo room would definitely be the best place to do it, not only because of all
>> places, it is the one where I would want to experiment in a fun way. Also
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>> good, touching, fun and awakening movie...  hopefully more than one movie!! I hope that after the 1.0 movie is released, it is only the beginning of an adventure consisting in hacking the movie. Making a different version of it, maybe more than one.
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>> I'd like to take this time to think of how to do it, what story (ies) to tell,
>> talk about the project to whomever among you is interested in participating in
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>> also with a vision, and a unity, so that it actually has a reach.
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>> I wrote this email today because I’d like everyone to
>> know about it, and open a discussion that I hope will mostly take place in real
>> life when I’ll be here in February rather than on
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>> I love this idea. As well as sudoers being involved, I think it'd be cool to work on it with some other groups who'd be excited. For instance the film-studies groups at Bay Area Public School (radicals in our same building) and others. In that way, sudoers could learn film-making theory, and film-makers could learn open-source theory. I'd love to dedicate some time to the project.
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>>> Noémie Serfaty
>>> 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple
>>> 75011
>>> Paris
>>> Tel: 06 27 76 88 84
>>> Tel: 01 71 50 51 82
>>> noemieserfaty at gmail.com
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