Hi all,
A few of us filmmakers are working on the "Movie Making Manual" which is a practical guide to filmmaking taking the form of a wikibook.
Wikibooks are online books which are editable by anyone. Anyone can update or change any page - this quickly produces accurate and etailed information. The concept of freely editable online information has been proven by the phenomenal sucess of the wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) which has now overtaken Encyclopedia Britanica in number of entries, is far more up-to-date than the EB and in many cases is more accurate.
The more contributors a project like this has the greater the breadth
and depth of the information on offer. We would like to invite you to
come along and be an editor of/contibutor to the Movie Making Manual.
Being an Editor entails doing one or more of the following:
* Contibuting content
* Promoting the concept
* Telling everyone you know about it both online and offline
* Encouraging others to contribute to the project
* Checking submitted postings
* Dealing with vandalism (reverting pages)
The principals of the Movie Making Manual
Free as in Freedom
The books will be released under an open content license that means that they are free forever. No one can keep you from using these materials, modifying them or distributing them. Also, the license guarantees that any works that are derived from these materials will be similarily free to modify and distribute, forever.
Free as in Money
Should filmmakers really spend $50 or more for a filmmaking book when
they can get the same information for free? These texts are owned by
the community and the world, not an individual or company.
Academia Meets the Real World
Our filmmaking book is started by filmmakers and is continually augmented by working filmmakers. These are no ex-filmmakers seeking additional income, these are the people at the coal face.
Up-to-the-minute Changes
Readers will never have to wait months or years for another edition to
come out that incorporates the latest changes in the field. The very
minute a discovery or advancement is made the text can be updated to
reflect that change. With the radical pace of change in the digital
film era this is a good thing.
Built-in Feedback
Every module in the books has its own associated talk page where filmmakers can ask each other questions and help each other with the
material.
Global Access
Filmmakers from around the world who have access to the Web can find
quality educational information, regardless of financial status,
local/regional educational restrictions, or proximity to an educational institution.
You can find the manual here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_making_manual
Our aim is for it to be a complete filmmaking resource and an example
to other wikibooks. We hope you'll all come along and check it out and
that some of you will stay and help out.
regards,
Cauri, Jack, Norman, Paul, Rob and Simon
production co. - www.tzunami.org
blog - www.simontzu.org
wikibook - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_making_manual
editor of - www.shootingpeople.org
