The Open Source Movie

Ways to contribute:

1.) You could write a scene and post it here. If you email your script to brilliantmovies@gmail.com, I will post it in the main blog.

We treat each suggestion as a challenge. If you write it, we will try to interpret your scene for the movie. Feel free to work with existing characters, or to introduce new ones. There are very few rules, and no limits. If your suggestions are gratuitously pornographic, hateful or generally distasteful we will delete them. Sorry.

Keep your ideas simple, from a production standpoint. We will try to meet creative challenges, but we are not a CGI studio. The more workable your suggestions are, the more likely that we will be able to achieve something worthwhile.

2.) You could shoot a scene and post it on Blip TV. We will cross-post your scene into the main blog. However, we have one request: Please burn your scene in its native format onto a DVD, and send it to us in the snail mail way.

In the near future, film cooperation will happen over the network. Footage will live on a giant server where collaborators all over the world can have instant access to it.

We’re not there yet. We are relatively poor, so we’ll have to be luddite about this. We promise to maintain a catalogue of all the scenes that are being created, and to pass them on to anyone who needs access to the footage. This can only work if you agree to send in your scene. If we do not receive your DVD in a reasonable time frame, your contribution may be removed from the movie.

The liscense agreement stipulates that in order to participate, you must make your scene available to other artists. Any suggestion as to how we can simplify or streamline the process is always appreciated.

3.) You could start a new blog to follow a different story line. The main blog will follow the story that evolves from the most loved scenes. This will be established through viewer feedback. It is likely however, that there will be competing story lines. When you create a new blog, you decide what goes in and what stays out - and you pick the order.

4.) You could create a new, completely different movie. Contact us with a wishlist, and we will throw the scenes you need onto DVD’s. To cover the costs of materials, postage and administration, we will charge a nominal fee for this service. You are free to edit, distribute and even to profit from you movie - just remember that you don’t own it.