Independent Movies and Youtube

Hollywood has controlled the entertainment business for the last hundred years or so due to the fact of the shear cost and also the fact that they created the infrastructure for marketing their product(Movies) and showing their product(Movie Theater).

Hollywood also taught our minds how to interpret and understand the story being portrayed in a movie.

The cost of making a Hollywood type of film also kept most independent movie makers out of the game. A typical 35 mm camera runs about a quarter million dollars. Ten minutes of 35 mm film with processing runs around 2 grand.-- 15 seconds of movie may take many hours of filming. Then you have millions of dollars of equipment along with hundreds of professionals to setup and run this equipment.

Add in the cost of the studio and you could easily end up spending half a million a day.

Most of this equipment and man power along with the studio is rented. It goes more or less like this, someone writes a script. He then take this script to a producer. If the producer likes the script he will start putting together investors to finance the movie. While this is going on people start getting all the other parts needed to produce a movie together like actors, directors, sound men and editors and so forth. Then legal needs to go over everything to check things like copyrights and other legal matters. This process may involve thousands of people all interconnected and very good at what they do. But waite, filming hasn't even started yet and may not start for years to come.

Once they do start filming, what equates to 15 seconds of movie may take weeks to setup and shoot. It may take hours and hours of shooting with actors standing out in the freezing cold in swim ware because the location is right but the temperature isn't. Making a quality movie that people have become accustomed to watching is not easy, it's more work than most people could ever imagine.

But Hollywood's hold on the movie industry has been broken. People are now training their minds to enjoy movie on their TV and computers and the cost has gone way down for making movies with video cameras and Youtube. Before Youtube independent movie makers didn't have a medium to reach their audience, and before video cameras it was just too costly to even load your camera. But the big advantage is that with home and phone viewing of movies you don't need the resolution that only film would afford you. Now you can become an independent movie maker with just a computer for editing and a video camera.

Youtube for a long time kept the independent movie maker out with its maximum upload size and time of videos but that has changed. Now Youtube allows most of its video up loaders up to 12 hour videos. But can independent movie makers create quality movies that the public will enjoy and want to watch? Because making a great movie involves a lot more than pointing a camera and shooting.

On this site we will cover a lot of the ins and outs of movie making.

Here are some Youtube videos I like.

Free Music

This Life, High Winds and Thunderstorms

God in the Clouds

Copyright Laws Suck

Bug Wars, this is a video of scorpions killing each other. This video will keep you up at night for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXeVfzZQWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOyFTJcnEY

Here is a great video on how to make a home made green screen. A good green screen is a must for the independent movie maker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUSj8jP14Go

Check out this fantastic video created with After Effects.