Open-source film
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Open-source film Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source software methodologies. Their sources are freely available and the licenses used meet the demands of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in of freedom.
Definition A definition of an open-source film is based on the OSI's open-source software definition[1] and the definition of free cultural licenses[2]. This definition can be applied to films where: 1. The license of the movie is approved for free cultural works. Specifically this is true for the Creative Commons licenses by and by-sa. 2. The materials used in the movie (sources) are also available under a license which is approved for free cultural works. 3. The movie and its sources are made publicly available via an online or by other means that are either free or with a cost that covers reasonable reproduction expenses only. 4. The sources should be viewable and editable with free/open-source software. If this is not the case, they must be convertible into such a format by using free/open-source software. The same applies to the movie itself. 5. It should be possible to re-create or re-assemble the movie using the source materials. Films or film projects which do not meet these criteria are either not open source or partially open source.
List of open-source films • Some movies below do *not* have licenses approved for free cultural works. Name
Type
Documentary Dancing to Architecture – a motion picture [3] about TINA
Released
CC License
2002
by 2.5 AU
road movie / gonzo-documentary
12/2004
by-sa 3.0
Elephants Dream
animated short
04/2006
by 2.5
Boy Who Never Slept
Feature Length Film
07/2006
by 3.0
Stray Cinema
Short Film/ Remix project
2006
by 3.0
.re_potemkin [11]
contemporary art project
2007
Feature-length independent film from the San Francisco Bay Area
2008
by-nc-sa 3.0
animated short
08/2008
by 3.0
Route 66
Oceania
[5]
[13]
Big Buck Bunny
none/copyleft [12]
Sources [4]
link
streaming [6] torrent [7] [8]
link
Comment Collaborative production. Vital Focus 2002.
Became popular as 's first open-source film. The license changed to CC by-sa in July 2009.
Created with the Blender open-source software.
Created with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut and [9] Boy Who Never various others. Slept [10]
link
[11]
Collaborative project
A remake of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" using crowndsourcing / peer production method.
homepage Self-distribution via BitTorrent and Archive.org [13] torrent (25,000+ s) [14]
link
[15]
Created with the Blender Open Source Software.
Open-source film
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Jathia's Wager [16]
short film
Sita Sings the Blues
by-sa 3.0
link
animated musical of the 2009 Indian epic the Ramayana
CC0 1.0
link
full feature
01/2010
by-sa 3.0
The Digital Tipping Point [22]
documentary
in production
by-sa
The Last Drug
full feature
not yet
by-sa 3.0
Sintel
animated short
10/2010
by 3.0
La Chute d'une plume (pèse plus que ta pudeur)
animated short
10/2010
by-sa 3.0
Project Code Rush
documentary
06/2009
original source footage of Tears of Steel
reference material for easing technical development of movie technology
2013-03-15
Valkaama
[19]
02/2009
[27]
by-nc-sa 3.0
[30] CC-by (no usage of actor footage for commercials)
[17]
Sources only consist of the movie without music score.
[18]
homepage Collaborative project. HD available (720p [20] torrent and 1080p) [21] link
[23]
Collaborative project.
in production link
[24]
homepage [25] link [26]
link
[28]
Xiph.org [31]
Created with the Blender Open Source Software. Created with the Kdenlive Open Source Software.
Code Rush originally aired in 2000 as a TV [29] documentary. This is a first time addressing of the huge lack in available free high quality footage for motion tracking, keying and cleaning testing. The material was recorded with the Sony F65 camera (4k native sensor, see also Ultra HD) and is formed by roughly 80,000 frames, each in OpenEXR half float files, in 4096 x 2160 pixels. This is 5 times more footage than used in the film. For the movie production the format encoding Rec709 “scene linear” was used in the processing pipeline.
Further reading • Cassarino, I.; Richter, W. (2008). "Swarm creativity: The legal and organizational challenges of open content film production (DIME Working Paper No. 45)" [32] (PDF). In Andersen, B. DIME Working Papers on Intellectual Property Rights. London: Birkbeck College.
External links • Revolution of Open Source and Film Making Towards Open Film Making (M.A. thesis) [33]
References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
http:/ / www. opensource. org/ docs/ osd http:/ / freedomdefined. org/ Definition http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta. html http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta-archive. html http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en/ free-open-source-film--streaming http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 52-route-66-documentary http:/ / orange. blender. org/
Open-source film [9] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ boywhoneverslept/ watch-and--free-movie-bwns/ [10] http:/ / straycinema. com/ footage-2009/ [11] http:/ / re-potemkin. httpdot. net/ [12] http:/ / www. httpdot. net/ copyleft_ [13] http:/ / www. hdehal. com/ oceania [14] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 179-oceania-an-independent-film-from-the-san-francisco-bay-area---high-quality [15] http:/ / www. bigbuckbunny. org/ index. php/ [16] http:/ / moviepals. org/ / moviepals-open-cinema-everyone/ spark/ jathias-wager-%E2%80%93-open-source-sci-fi-movie/ [17] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ jathias-wager/ watch-and- [18] http:/ / www. sitasingstheblues. com/ [19] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ [20] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ index. php?page=sources& l=en [21] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 979-valkaama---music-michael-georgi [22] http:/ / www. digitaltippingpoint. com [23] http:/ / archive. org/ details/ digitaltippingpoint [24] http:/ / www. sintel. org/ [25] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ ?-English[26] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ les_fichiers/ sources/ [27] Code Rush release announcement. (http:/ / waxy. org/ 2009/ 07/ code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ ) [28] http:/ / clickmovement. org/ coderush [29] Code Rush IMDb page (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0499004/ ) [30] 4 TB original 4k footage available as CC-by (http:/ / mango. blender. org/ production/ 4-tb-original-4k-footage-available-as-cc-by/ ) [31] http:/ / media. xiph. org/ tearsofsteel/ tearsofsteel-footage-exr/ [32] http:/ / www. dime-eu. org/ files/ active/ 0/ Cassarino-Richter-AB. pdf [33] http:/ / www. radiobrecht. org/ files/ open_source_filmmaking_loker. pdf
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Article Sources and Contributors
Article Sources and Contributors Open-source film Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=545007376 Contributors: Agentlame, Alexander.stohr, Arenlor, AuroraMae, Avr.thecreator, Black Kite, Cool Hand Luke, Droidy, Edward, G8w, Gallaecio, Guido Montana, Icedog, Jafeluv, Jarble, Jayday21, Kotentie, Pnm, Raphael Frey, TarzanASG, Tony1, Topbanana, Uncle G, Zuckerberg, 45 anonymous edits
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