It's been an eventful month. First up, the traditional film community publicly recognised the value of what we've been doing with Sanctuary and other remixable projects by honouring me with a Sydney Film Festival prize, the inaugural Peter Rasmussen Innovation Award (citing Sanctuary)!
Then I got to attend the Open Video Conference (OVC) in NYC. You can read my conference report.
Frustrating as it is to not have the resources to simply complete and release Sanctuary, reality bites. The key learnings I've brought back from the OVC are:
1) Staged delivery - the need to keep releasing is paramount.
2) Collectivism - for remixable films to develop, the community needs more resources.
It is due to the invaluable input and support of remixable media community members over many years that we have got the project to the stage it has reached. Now I see the need to start releasing material regardless of the fact a finished cut has not yet been produced. So I invite discussion on how best to release the Sanctuary asset library and pipeline tools as they stand. I plan to release them by 14 July, so comments before then would be appreciated.
I still intend to finish my cut but it's time to take that milestone off the critical path for the project.
So without further ado, I'm hereby opening up this rather old-fashioned looking blog to the public...
Posted by .M. at June 29, 2009 12:20 AM