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Jules Bushell wrote:If you are shooting a short film, your're not posting this for free on YouTube/Vimeo straight away. Has to go through the festival circuit, probably take a year. Have to recoup the budget some how. I'd try to sell it to some TV channel. After two years, maybe post it on-line.
Feature films take of course a lot longer to go through the process of making it, post production, sales agents, distribution, marketing, theatrical, DVDs, cable, online chargeable, plus other Windows (airports, hotels) etc.
I wager, you won't see top quality work posted on-line for free any time soon.
So I say the opposite, keep those tests coming else we won't see much at all.
Jules
We shot sketch comedy short films and released them right away every week for two years for free. We shot a sic-fi web show that went through two seasons - one 13 episodes, one 22 episodes. Released them via our show website for free. Everyone's process is different, and we make stuff because we love to make stuff and share it with people, not because we're trying to make money off of it. We all have jobs for that.
As I type this, I'm importing footage from my BMCC and my BMPCC from a new comedy short film series that we're putting together for our website. We'll be releasing it for free. Doesn't make the quality any worse than if we were getting paid to do it. No disrespect intended, but it irks me when people assume that art and entertainment can only be high quality if it's paid for. We live in a time now where budgets and studios aren't needed to make good entertainment. Passion, willingness, and motivation are really the only things you need.
Every project is a test film because it can always be learned from and improved upon for the next project. Why not tell a story while doing it if you have the inkling to do so?
Matthew