Films and Shorts from South-East Asia

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Short Films and Video Business

I became aware of some nice and new video sites, which are both great to view videos and for business.

At first there is Openfilm, a site dedicated to short films. It is an open place, where everyone can become a member for the purpose of watching videos, reviews or to connect with others to discuss or to do business. But as Openfilm wants to be a place for films of high quality, the content and especially the films are moderated. Film makers may run own channels and earn revenues by of revenue sharing. At Openfilm there are already a lot of well known internet celebrities represented.

Another site with nice short films is Coffee Shorts. They got nice films and are offering uploads and monetization, too. NomadsLand is dedicated to documentary films. It has a similar approach like Openfilm and enables watching and uploads, discussions and business networking.

Remixable Film Content

To easily copy content is as well an advantage as a problem of digital media. MOD Films aims to make a business out of the advantages and the remixing culture. The company produces remixable film content and film production methods. Remixable films are described as a kind of sampling. Examples are available at MOD Films services and further content by another site of the company, remixable.tv.

Guided Virtual Reality Tours through Berlin

Have you recognized the former post about virtual showrooms in June with the hint about the virtual showroom for the bitfilm digital film festival? Meanwhile the festival is over, but for the enthusiasts of digital films all films of the festival are available at the bitfilm festival homepage. Here is a press release with a list of the winners.

Now I received an announcement from Twinity, the hosting virtual world of the virtual showroom. They are offering virtual "Walking Tours ... around Alpha City Berlin". Probably you know that Berlin is the capital of Germany, which has been visited by Barack Obama lately. While the guided virtual walk through you may become shown some of the famous sights of Berlin, "the TV Tower, the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall building) and of course the Brandenburg Gate". Tours will happen every Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm (CET), 9am (EST), 9pm (SST). To participate you will need to have the Twinity software installed.

How Films may become Interactive

I came across some state of the art and cutting edge services by researching lately. These really are revolutionary and every one for its own is able to change media. By putting them together even a new kind of film may arise, interactive movies. Already sometime ago people have started to experiment with new media to make films interactive. First tries have given the option to choose from different actions, e.g. using the left or the right door. This has been done at the internet as well as on cd sometime ago. Korsakow Syndrom is website remained online.

The new stuff is 360 degree video, which means that a whole environment is filmed, in front and at the back. This is Immersive Media offering. You can visit the website and will find some examples. The films become navigated by the mouse within the video.

This would enable to film a whole environment to give a playing field for interactive action. But there are still no actors. This would be a bit tricky. Do get actors into a movie in the future one may use artificial intelligence, an ai software and an avatar. The avatar may look like a star and be trained by one as ai is even able to learn. There are already application available for similar purposes like games (Artificial or Xaitment). .

By this the preconditions for an interactive film are available. One may film an environment and has actors, who could engage into the action the viewer wants.