Topic: [ANN] FIRST Feature-length Documentary on Bitcoin, 100% BITCOIN FUNDED! - page 10. (Read 26377 times)

Im a Student of "Applied Media Science" at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. My course of studies consists of theoretical elements of film (and other media) production, as well as practical ones. I have taken part in several film projects during my 3 years there on set and in the Marketing Department of a larger production.

My team consists of 4 students, doing their Master's Degree in "Media Technics", all have prior experience in practical film production and theoretical knowledge.

Our campus is equipped with the most up to date devices and infrastructure neccessary for recording and editing movies. All of witch are available to us. Different film projects are currently being developed there which an able community of young film makers, that can contribute to this project if need arises.

So we got the Know How, the Equipment and the Support to make this documentary reality. The only thing missing is MONEY!

To stay with the spirit of the Bitcoin project, I decided to raise funds exclusively with Bitcoin from the community that it comes from in the most transparent and open way possible instead of asking private or governmental film promotion funds to give me the money under some restrictive licenses.

The only thing I would want to know is wether you have the qualifications to make a documentary. So far you have told us nothing about your background or which skills you possess that make this project feasible.

Looks cool! Ill give it a watch!

Among other movies that inspired my recently is:
"King of Kong" its about a the little known sub-culture of Arcade Game Nerds, especially those seeking to hold the Wolrd Title in the original Donkey Kong.

Will do, PM me for contact details! Or email me at [email protected]

+1 Try it, if his ego is as huge as it was last year, you could probably manage to make him talk.

You could hook Gavin Andresen up to a lie detector and ask if hes satoshi 

I could see him in a rotating chair in a darkened room with pixelated face and voice obscuring device explaining why he did it and how misunderstood he is. ha ha.

Nominating pirateat40 for the documentary.

I'd suggest looking at the Youtube series "How To Start Your Own Country".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syujTp5m5Vk

Not that you want to follow the style exactly but the idea that you take it in steps and explain each area of Bitcoin as a progression. He makes it quite amusing even though the subject of government and administering a country would have been a bit tedious in a normal documentary style.

In that video above he interviews people along the way as he figures it out for himself. The questions become the story line and the exploration of that revolves around people who are experts in each area.

SO WHAT'S WITH QUESITION # 1?


Haven't heard too many suggestions so far! 
Keep 'em coming!

This is indeed a proposition worthwhile pondering on. My initial plan was to have a frame story of a common Bitcoiner that tries to succeed in his quest, which could be anything from mining to starting a Business or organising a conference, etc. I would follow him around with the camera and while his story is used to tell his tale, the watcher can identify with him, feel for him, while different aspects of Bitcoin would be focused on, like anonymity, monetary regulation, the Bitcoin community with its various projects, always leading back to him to connect the different fields. Everything would of course be real as this is a documentary. So the Bitcoiner's story has to be a true story as well.

Now with this proposition I see another approach to the movie. If I understand you correctly, you envision a short (30 min?) feature on lets say "mining", the next part of this larger Bitcoin series would be focused on "Silk Road" for example. This would of course result in a more thorough coverage of the topic(s) but would lack a narrative, which is the common Bitcoiner from my initial idea. It sounds more like a series for a pre educated audience, that already has a basic understanding of Bitcoin. My aspiration is to make movie, that gears towards a completely unexperienced audience to the common Bitcoin follower. I think by including the narrative structure of a main story one has more control over the arc of suspense and can create a more captivating movie. I am planning on making a 45 minute feature about Bitcoin. The topic maybe too dry/complicated to grasp for the inexperienced to keep them watching over the entire length. Therefore the element of a frame story (golden yarn) is neccessary in my opinion.

But why not making both? The two structures, the full length one for the casual viewer and an in-depth one for the eagerly interested could both be realized and use footage from one another. In the end of production of the 45 min. one, we will have hours and hours of material from many different areas, that could easily recombined to make shorter features of maybe 20-30 minute parts that will focus on specific aspects and give a clearer image. This is the beauty of this project, it could provide a repository for so many movies to come and everyone is invited to make their own. Free to use, free to share and distribute!

Good work, keep it up! 

you know who would be great to interview?  Alan Reiner, aka etotheipi who wrote Armory.

Yep, I came to Bitcoin for that, in 2011..
Over time I took it to my heart ❤
Now I want to make a movie about it.
A perfect love story.

Nice.
 

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good
I would like to have those raw footage and make my own remix

Get Ben Bernanke interviewed bwhahahahahaa!

But seriously good luck

I don't know what to think of the fact that more than 60% of your post were in /speculation/

I'll uningnore you for a this one.  Good luck

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Similar to how the BBC often puts together a long documentary as a series of shorter shows. Then you can do justice to parts that otherwise get passed over too quickly.