Q1a: Posts on Digital technology

THIS POST LAST UPDATED JUNE 8TH 2012
All of the 'Posts on...' series primarily gather together existing posts from this blog relevant to the particular 1a/1b topic, BUT may also feature below this list further 'wider reading' links following these posts, and possibly copied-in links lists from this blog. In some cases I've added further links from further DB blogs too. Ultimately, these are 30min questions so the important thing is you pick out some ideas/theories/examples you're comfortable with and know you can apply specific examples from AS and/or A2 to. Some of the posts are brief, others much longer; its well worth skimming through as many as possible though and looking for ideas that click with you.

Web 2.0 + Fan-made vids: Applying YOUR work; (any Q1a answer should cite web 2.0)

DIGITISATION: self-published short film; (further eg on how web 2.0 functions + how YOUR work isn't mere abstract academic exercise)

DIGITISATION: book industry; (has web 2.0 made publishers obsolete?)

Newspaper asks for applications via tweets; (eg of how far convergence has gone: social media being used to get work in 'old media')

TT3D as eg of A2-level filmmaking in real world; feature film made using same equipment as you guys

Creativity and R+P: Monsters; here's an $800k debut feature by a director who struggled to get financing because he didn't have a full script - like Loach. Leigh etc Gareth Edwards wanted to organically develop his script with his cast during the shoot. Indeed, he hired non-actors as he travelled (entire crew in ONE car!) on location... Editing was done as they went: digital tech means footage can be quickly + cheaply checked out (it doesn't need to expensively developed like 35mm film)  

Coens on using Final Cut for Oscar-nommed True Grit; 

Micro-budget films +DCRUP; 
Zombie flicks - low budget, inferior to your productions?;

Rotting Hill - 4min zombie short; another eg of we-media/UGC

British horror + budgets; bright future?;

Using YouTube video to pitch for $45k horror; 

Fan trailers of movies they WANT made!; this isn't just fan-made material like the trailers cut to a favourite music track, but rather franchise fans trying to influence studio decisions about sequels/prequels/remakes

Researching recent genre egs + presenting this in vid;

Being Human: Auds, Repns, Dig.Tech;

80s Madman Reborn on web; how an 80s 'video nasty' continues to make money [long tail theory...] through multiple digital platforms, raising its profile + creating talk of a remake

Colin, the £45 film; this made it to the cinema despite being really rather poor, not least the lack of shot variety and excessively long takes - clever exploitation of marketing, not least online, helped the case and it continues to make decent money from DVD sales