[d@DCC] Diferentiation needed - cost of Movies

From: Charles MacDonald <cmacd _-at-_ telecomottawa.net>
To: discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:23:11 -0500

> I was suggesting that it costs less with modern technologies to make
> movies/etc, but she said that the motion picture industry disagrees
> (that movies cost more now).  I don't know how that could be true
> given you can buy video editing hardware/software these days that are
> low enough for the home/hobbyist budget, but this is what she
> believes.  This meant she wasn't interested in counter-argument such
> as the discussion of that Linux, one of the things threatened by this
> policy, being used heavily by the studios for 3D rendering farms/etc.
> 

It is precisely because it is easier for anyone to create a movie, that 
the costs of "Hollywood" movies goes up.  They have to be "different" 
from what Zoe down the street can do, thus lots of expensive special 
effects/ and model work.

Hollywood execs just rent time on render farms, and often indirectly, as 
a firm is hired to create an effect (or fix a problem in a shot)  how 
the effects house does it is of no interest to the producers.  (Linux 
render/ Optical effects/ whatever)


I do agree that one has to be very careful to express the problem in 
ways that the individual parties can relate to.  The remote control Gun 
analogy is Brilliant BTW.

-- 
Charles MacDonald  Stittsville Ontario
  cmacd@telecomottawa.net      Just Beyond the Fringe
            http://www.TelecomOttawa.net/~cmacd/
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