Wreckamovie
Type of site | Collaboration tool for movie making[1] |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Tampere, Finland |
| Owner | Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd (commercial)[2] |
| Created by | Timo Vuorensola[2] |
| Website | http://www.Wreckamovie.com/ |
| Commercial | No [1] |
| Registration | Required for input, reading free |
| Launched | 1 February 2007[2] |
| Current status | Defunct |
Content license | Free sharing, free agreement [1] |
Wreckamovie was a collaborative film production platform to allow individuals to set up a film production and find a community to collaborate with, or find others' interesting film productions and become a collaborator in a worknet. Its aim was to make filmmaking easier, more effective and possible for everyone.[3]
History
Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd and Wreckamovie were created by a group of filmmakers from Finland , who in 2005 created the freely downloadable Star Trek parody movie Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. It gained web fame for being created and distributed by a community of enthusiasts over the internet, and for its special effects made on a shoestring budget using standard home computers. The experiences of the group creating the aforementioned film, their first feature film, led them to develop a platform that was open and easy to use for everyone.[4]
The termination of the platform was announced on its Facebook page on October 13, 2014.[5]
Characteristics
Wreckamovie was considered a model example of the potential of Web 2.0 by Cisco Systems' Finland Oy. As a business model it presented the exact opposite of the traditional way of making movies. With it a community creates and distributes the film, and only then, once popularity has already been gained, profitability steps in.[6]
The Wreckamovie model was built on online collaboration in service of the production of professional-quality audiovisual projects, such as short films and music videos to feature-length films. The model applied open source ideology and crowd sourced work and financing. Central to this was the creation of a community for each project, from which to request assistance in production tasks.[3] It was designed to films together with its community, and thus foster interaction with the audience beginning with the development stage.[7] The service did not distinguish between "professionals" and "amateurs", but emphasized enthusiasm and engagement.[8]
The distribution model was intended to go beyond online distribution, targeting traditional movie screens to cell phones,[9] leveraging the existing community supporting the project as a basis for viral marketing.[4]
Wreckamovie was used for the Finnish horror film Sauna.[7][10] It was also used for the production of the reference movie for the service, the feature-length scifi parody Iron Sky., which reportedly raised 12% of its budget through the platform. There were more than 300 active projects listed on Wreckamovie in 2009.[11]
Awards
In 2008 the movie production community Wreck-A-Movie was elected the winner of the MindTrek Grand Prix 2008, €20 008.[12] In October 2009 Wreckamovie was chosen among the 36 finalists in SIME conference's Rising Star of the North -competition, finishing 23rd overall.[13]
See also
- Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, the originating point for Wreckamovie
- Iron Sky, the first movie fully utilizing Wreckamovie
- Collaborative software
- Collective intelligence
- Crowdsourcing
- Viral marketing
- Web 2.0
- Worknet
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "www.Wreckamovie.com/Guidelines". Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd. http://www.wreckamovie.com/guidelines.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "www.Wreckamovie.com/Contact". Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd. http://www.wreckamovie.com/contact.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "www.Wreckamovie.com/FAQ". Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd. http://www.wreckamovie.com/faq.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "www.Wreckamovie.com/About". Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd. http://www.wreckamovie.com/about.
- ↑ "WreckAMovie.Com". 2014-10-03. https://www.facebook.com/wreckamovie/posts/pfbid0h6V7tvxpRykr1YYVPemd5yBuxnthdFiy3AVkR2DeBJ2J8NvzZ75aAHigqbVmR1f7l.
- ↑ "Suomalainen verkkopalvelu elokuvien tekemiseen esiteltiin Cisco Expossa (engl. A Finnish internet service for producing movies introduced at Cisco Expo)". Suomen tietotoimisto (STT). http://www.sttinfo.fi/pressrelease/detail.do?pressId=12757.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Finnish Cannes Wrecking Campaign Pays". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. http://www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/news_story.php?cid=895&sid=14&ptid=7.
- ↑ "MindTrek Competition 2008". mindtrek.org/2008/. http://www.mindtrek.org/2008/competition.
- ↑ Veera Jussila. "Star Wreckin seuraaja syntyy nettiyhteisössä". Tekniikka & Talous. http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/ict/article78120.ece.
- ↑ Jenna Wortham (2008-05-07). "Space Nazis Attack in Sci-Fi Spoof Iron Sky". Wired.com. https://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/space-nazis-att/.
- ↑ "Productions listed on Wreckamovie". Wreckamovie. http://www.wreckamovie.com/productions/list/all/most_active.
- ↑ "The winner of the MindTrek Grand Prix 2008". mindtrek.org/2008/. http://www.mindtrek.org/2008/competition.
- ↑ "www.wreckamovie.com/productions/wreck-a-movie-platform/news/305". Star Wreck Studios Oy. http://www.wreckamovie.com/productions/wreck-a-movie-platform/news/305.
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