[LAU] request for filmed interview for the Digital Tipping Point documentary

hi,

I am producing a documentary movie called the Digital Tipping Point about
how Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is changing global culture. I have
been mostly lurking on this list for a while, because we are using all FOSS
tools for our project.

I am wondering if there is anyone on this list who is making active use of
FOSS audio tools in the San Francisco Bay Area. If so, I would like to
interview that person on film for the DTP project.

We are building the DTP out of fully forkable footage here on the Internet
Archive. Link below. (Forkable here means that you can both copy the
footage and create a derivative work).

Our idea is that we want to produce a movie-in-a-box for people with really
low end systems who would like to get decent interview footage to include in
their own little movies about why FOSS is cool, and how it is going to
change their lives.

We have filmed many dignitaries such as Christian Ude (the Mayor of Munich),
Hermann-Josef Pelgrim (the Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall), Gilberto Gil (the
Culture Minister of Brazil), and Luiz Millan Vazquez de Miguel, (the
Extremaduran Minister of Science, Education). The theme of our film is that
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) will help foster an explosion of literacy
and creativity globally. Our film is the first feature length documentary to
be built on-line out of fully forkable footage released under a Creative
Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license on the Internet Archive.

We have 55 hours so far loaded onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping
Point Video Collection. You can see our raw video here:

 http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint

That footage is raw footage, and will need to be re-rendered before it is
used in any final project. It is also much more poorly lighted than you are
used to, and the audio is also only on one channel, to reduce overhead.
Also, frankly we are simple end users who are hoping to prove that yes, GNU
Linux is simple enough that even a knucklehead like me can make a
full-length movie using it! Plus, one of our video editors is 80 years
old. Talk about your grandpa using FOSS ! We have been to 5 nations and 3
continents on a shoe string budget, and so we didn't have the resources to
drag lighting equipment along. We shot everything with a Sony PD-170, which
is a decent pro-sumer piece of equipment.

Our keyword search index page is located below. It is the place to go to
find specific persons or themes for our footage. The Internet Archive is
currently changing its search software, and so the index might not be
operational again until Monday, December 10, 2007. Here is the index page
nonetheless:

http:// tinyurl.com/yluwoc <http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc>

The theme of our film is that the US is falling behind in certain
technological areas due to its dependence on Microsoft and other proprietary
code in areas where FOSS is ready for production on the desktop and
elsewhere. We are going to contrast our experiences in seeing the status of
FOSS desktop development we found outside the US with our experiences here
in the US in trying to migrate just one public middle school to FOSS.

Thank you either way for considering our request.

-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

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Received on Fri Dec 7 00:15:07 2007