Rex Orwell

I tell you what Richard. Please treat me and my posts with some respect before pushing me up into a corner and I'll continue to discuss the issue with you. If you're not even going to bother to read the material I put in front of you why would I bother to waste my time speaking on this. I'm really sorry but I expected a bit more from you. ... and that's condescending. I'm in my mid 30's, experieced in a wide range of fields and it's a long time since I was in school. I've entered 'student' as my occupation, but If I had 5 Academy Awarads and had won at Cannes twice I'd still have 'Student' in my profile field. (it's also unfortunately not the only rude remark you've aimed at me and that's cool) It's possible you're going to need more luck than me. There's a storm coming. We did drive at different things in actual fact here, but you're usually on the money in one area or another Phil, and your last post was important. _

Yes. As I've labelled myself as a 'Student' (and I'm a student Director) it ain't a difficult assumption to make. What would excite me most is a platform where people could download our film for free and I, all the crew; the DP, the Sound engineers, Editors and actors etc still get paid. No third and fourth and fifth parties and no discrimination - Films are judged and achieve success solely on their merit and popularity. Much like the platform Kim Schmidt was about to create. But that isn't what would happen using the Megakey platform though (did you read it?). Frankly, I think the whole team would be a damn site better off. I mean no disrespect naturally, but we're trapped in a state of mind Richard and the world's changing. File sharing isn't going away, and we'll both see that in 5 years time.

Not at all Richard. A man called Kim Dot Com had the plan. It was shut down. I predicted someone might want that point ellaborated on, which is why I linked you to an article on this board in the 'Off Topic' section where no one goes. If you read my post again and click on 'Copyright Infringmenet' it will lead you there.

^ True. Scott's gotta have more integrity than that surely. I guess a really good indication might be Prometheus. And whilst I've seen all of the marketing material and trailers I still think it could be a close call. Edit - Jar Jar Binks gets a really bad rap incidentally. For me it was the catastrophic casting of Anakin Skywalker. I totally see where people are coming from though.

Well, the world's changing. It's up to the film maker to gather momentum for distribution. You'll hear distribution talked about a lot by Chris Jones on the Geurilla Podcast series for instance. There's never been a better time to be making films, whether you're in LA or London.... and you've got to hand it to Chris. Here's a guy who's literally trying to bring about a better foundation for the British film industry and succeeding; making information that's going to help the artists get out there and onto the world stage freely available. We could do worse than having a few more people like him. If people actually embraced internet piracy and the transfer of information across the web and moulded it slightly to harness it's potential instead of winging on about copyright infringement, forever stuck in a mind-set that ought to be dead by now and following the greed model inherited from the corporations you quite rightly point the finger at towards the end of your post, this thread probably wouldn't exist. We're also moving away from a system that indoctrinates the public with "what you need to watch, honestly." or we should be. I'm working through a list called '50 Turkish Films You Need to See Before You Die' and it's intoxicating. Would I have been able to watch these films, or even know about them in 1995? Don't think so, I was probably watching Die Hard 3, thoroughly disappointed with the whole affair and my options. I mean don't get me wrong I'd like this idea of taxing imports granted (provided the end-user wouldn't foot the bill), but we really aren't going to get any help from politicians. It makes me so disheartened to see people time after time after time expectant of Westminster with "please help us", particularly in light of how we've all watched Britain's industries systematically dismantled over the past 60 years. I mean, we've seen this with our own eyes, it's real. "It's the Labour Party, no it's the Tory's, No it's Blair, No It's Europe, No It's the Jews, No It's the Muslim etc etc" and the whole illusion keeps on turning around. There's always going to be difficulty while people continuously use the crutch of statements like "I'm not sure about the Conservative parties economic and foreign policy" when what they should be saying is "I'm not sure about the economic and foreign policy manufactured by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and The Fabian Society. The Royal Institute of International Affairs has fairly destroyed our country and DEMOS is a bit of a bad egg who on Earth are these people?" This lot aren't gonna help you, me or the reader. On the contrary they're gonna make life gradually more and more difficult for each of us - "What schools are my kids going to go to? What will the Carlylse Group pay to have me on board?" (and in Tony Blair's case it's £500,000 per annum) Social engineering is what matters and the way things are in terms of this stranglehold you mention suits that end perfectly. Politics is a game designed to distract anyone from what's really going on, and it works. Most importantly though, America is owned by the people who own Britain, why on Earth would they care what proportion of profit lands where?... They don't... and I'm taking about tax here. Keep waiting. Nothing will be done. And they've got every right to do this to us. Because we keep buying into it all. I liked this bit. It's also destroyed a number of countries.

Agreed. It was Scott's work in the first place so we can't really say this. Had some other bloke decided to tamper with it in the late 90's / early 2000's I'd wholeheartedly agree with that.

He's right. There are no problems, only opportunities.

Looks really good Ben. I'll pour over Sunshine when I get time for a start-off. You might be interested to talk to Rob Ager, he's a very thorough chap. His analysis of 2001 A Space Odyssey did the rounds a while back. All relevent stuff here. But he does other films too, there just happened to be a stint of things related to Kubrick at the time.

Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment. Alcon and Scott are mum on plot details but they confirm that the story will be set “some years after the first film concluded,” according to a statement released Thursday. http://www.filmindustrypro.com/index.php?/topic/166-new-bladerunner-confirmed/ Scott can be seen talking about New Bladerunner in an interview given to LA Times here.

When it comes to initial networking you really can't knock http://www.linkedin.com/

Ridley Scott talks new Bladerunner, and some Prometheus insight with the LA Times: http://www.filmindustrypro.com/index.php?/topic/35-prometheus-trailers/#entry193

Great looking, well layed out website. The only thing that would spring to my mind is a reel video embedded somewhere pretty prominant, so the visitor can get a broad overview of your work quality easily.

Funny this thread comes about now. I'm just about to watch this for the first time.

Sidenote : Samples from The Thomas Bell Orchestra. The video picture quality might have come on 20 years but the music certainly hasn't

^ Good posting. Maybe they wanna get the basics, then leave for the other side of the world for the coming plight.

There are things to consider. All the universities are different. Westminster course structure concentrates 95% on film related aspects and 5% TV, however it's in Harrow. Whereas Bournemouth from my research has a heavy emphasis on television production. Facilities in UCLAN have a good reputation and it seemed quite flexible on allowing you to persue whatever direction you want to take. MET film school looked very good but you need 20,000 quid a year over two years.

My impression of Ravensbourne was that the emphasis centred mainly around post production. If you pursue the place it would be handy if you could come back here and clarify one way or the other. You need to search this forum though : http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=316

I haven't seen your doc, but it sounds like it would get an audience in Great Britain. Edit - On hindsight if it's an American narrator possibly not, but the story of Polk looked interesting.

I agree. But Its the unsurity of what form this will actually take. DVD's themselves are a flawed format given how fragile the medium is. Many of my DVD's have been well taken care of, but skip in places. When examined the disc shows no evidence of scratching. It could be argued that it's the quality of the laser, yet I've played some of these discs on high end players with the same results. This is another reason I'm in favour of piracy and the ability to download films in AVI etc free of charge (and you can read my insight into SOPA and PIPA here). The medium is a marketing moneyspinner. It's preferred for me to go out like a good little consumer and re-buy films I've already paid for which I refuse to do. My habits have developed into watching a bulk library of AVI files in constant rotation, and leaving the DVD inside the box. The DVD has already become more of an ornament. My prediction of sticks was mocked by another member further up, but to me it seems the most logical avenue, in which case, is it really a form of physical media? Anyway, MG Siegler on the death of Blu-Ray (sp!) : To be clear, because of the way it’s compressed, iTunes 1080p content is not equal to the 1080p picture you’ll get from a Blu-ray disc. It’s very close, but it’s not quite there yet. I imagine it will get there as digital compression technology continues to improve. But even if it doesn’t, this is something that won’t mean a thing to the vast majority of consumers. Thanks to the marketing of television sets over the years, they know “1080p”. They don’t know that the quality can be inconstant. Fair or not, it won’t matter. That’s one reason why the new Apple TV is such a huge win here. Previously, it was limited to displaying 720p content which undoubtedly gave some would-be purchasers pause. But a new chip (a single-core A5), some 1080p content in iTunes, and the same $99 price changes that. But there are cheap Blu-ray players out there now, so why does the Apple TV trump those? And what about other boxes like the Roku, which can also do 1080p streaming content? One word: AirPlay. Read on : http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/14/the-new-apple-tv/

Forgive me Brian. I had come away worrying that my post may have come across spear-headed towards you on hindsight which definately wasn't intended, and I wanted to come back and edit it to take the edge off somehow, but you can't do that here. Apologies though. I know you were, and I appreciated seeing it I was hoping you hadn't forgotten to bring it back.

http://www.filmindustrypro.com/

But does it really matter? Once you're trained within whatever role you want to focus on and you're actually involved in the production of stuff, it's your work people will be looking at not your education certs.

This thread isn't localised and so should be opened up in the more general sections. Also the title should read 'All Human Beings Are Terrorists' "Next the statesman will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." - Mark Twain "Instead of being a protector or man's rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator; instead of guarding freedom the government is establishing slavery; instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force and coercion in any manner and issue it pleases; instead of serving as the instrument ofobjectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear*... Instead of protecting men from injury by whim, the government is arrogating to itself the power of unlimited whim - so that we are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion; the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizen may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history." - Ayn Rand * - 'terror' in other words. Rand was I think talking about the then current government's twisting of words with a foresight into that processes ultimate twisting of reality itself, which is the tactic we suffer and fall victim to currently. After all it's child's play for them to do. We're walking around ga-ga. Addicted to X-Factor, I'm a Celebrity, Grand Theft Auto and heaven knows what else.

Jeez. I've no sympathy for anyone who allows themselves to get caught up in all of that stupid stuff. There's also droves of 'assets' patrolling the internet now posing as 17 yr olds or whatever else. They call them 'Strategic Communications Operatives' or 'Strategic Comms Opps', paid to generally cloudy up the waters in terms of public opinion via blogs, post comments underneath News articles etc. You get a lot of them posting comments on Youtube. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more of these than anything else.