Sharing Behind-The-Scenes Photos For A Movie On Twitter: Good Marketing Or Criminal Behavior?
from the take-your-pick dept
Remember how Summit Entertainment was pushing for criminal charges against someone who shared some on-set photos of the latest Twilight installment via Twitter? We still can't figure out how this makes any sense at all. How would sharing some on-set photos hurt the production at all. I can only see how it would help.Thankfully, not everyone in the film business is quite so clueless. Ross Pruden points us to a story from filmmaker Lucas McNelly, who's apparently spending a year volunteering on various indie films and documenting the process. The post highlights how the current film he's working on, called Fat Kid Rules the World, had a somewhat mystery crew member tweeting a bunch of photos from the set under the name TheiPhotographr. The photos are pretty impressive. Here are just two, but the link above has many more (as does the Twitter account, obviously).
I think this is the future of production. Instead of being a rarity, people like Patrick are going to be the norm. You'll have a crew full of people sharing photos and thoughts from your production. They'll all bring their own built-in audiences along with them and it'll be the production's job to maximize that contribution. Some productions will clamp down and try to control it in the same way that corporations try and get their employees to toe a line, but the smart ones will give them free reign. Sure, they'll give parameters like "don't reveal the killer", but it won't be much more than that. And the productions will be better for it. They'll have an easier time of finding their audiences because the audience will come from the processes that get the film made in the first place.Unless you put them in jail.
Plus, they'll draw better crews.
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Nope, misplaced enthusiasm by a weenie specialist.
I can demonstrate my point by getting a webcam so you can watch my fingers move in typing. Bore you to tears. Only the finished product holds any interest, see? (Yeah, I set up a cheap shot. Go ahead.)
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Re: Nope, misplaced enthusiasm by a weenie specialist.
As an overseas fan, Patrick's photos and Lucas's articles from onset, have shared a lot of the passion and enthusiasm from a young and talented cast and crew and makes me more excited for the film. It feels like you're on a journey along with them, making this film.
Seeing a daily photo from theiphotographr was a highlight for us following him on twitter as he's not just showing us a scene, he's also got a great eye for a shot.
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Re: Nope, misplaced enthusiasm by a weenie specialist.
Part of the fun of a trip is getting to where you are going... so grow up or I will turn this car around.
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Re: Nope, misplaced enthusiasm by a weenie specialist.
Need we point to the study that said people who know the ending tend to enjoy the works more?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/02140715488/spoiler-alert-people-enjoy-books-more -when-they-know-spoilers.shtml
2nd, I don't want to see a movie being made. Removes all "suspension of disbelief", and even young people won't get the full effect of all at once if it's dribbled out, will just worsen the decline.
Um. So, maybe don't look. I don't recall where this was forced upon you.
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Barebones / 10 minute info-free fawning over each other "behind the scenes"? No sale. Give me a feature-packed 4 disc set at a premium, please.
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I do. Why do you think your opinion is more important than mine? Typical TD troll - "my opinion is all that matters and it's the TRUTH!!!!".
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Re: Nope, misplaced enthusiasm by a weenie specialist.
Who cares? You are not interested in this material anyway so this should have absolutely zero effect on you.
"Don't give away the ending? That'll be violated by someone who just has to be a big shot for fifteen seconds of fame."
That is certainly a possibility but in your book it's already a done deal and somehow I can already sense you trying to figure out what their punishment should be.
"2nd, I don't want to see a movie being made."
This simply means you are not the audience they are seeking. Don't take it personally. Personally, I don't like fashion shows, but they hold them all the time. That's not a problem for me since I choose not to be a part of the audience.
Make your own choices for you, and quit sniveling about the choices others make for themselves. There are things others enjoy that you simply have no interest in, so be it.
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Further, I think that while there is some good, allowing this sort of thing could knock down the wall too much, and really make movies less special, more common. There is a fine line that is hard to see, but it is there somewhere.
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Expectation of Privacy?
Forget, for a moment, about if the behind the scenes pictures secretly taken would hurt the movie. I'd be more worried if it would hurt the actors. Do they have an expectation of privacy while on the set? For example.. Actress A has a tasteful nude scene, a back shot where she's wading into the water. No true naughty bits are shown, but very sensual. But someone secretly takes full frontal nudes of her from another angle and puts them out on the internet. To me, that would be a definite invasion of privacy.
If it's an official behind the scenes, they can make sure it is editted so that things the actors/actresses don't want out there don't get shown. But someone who goes onto a private set and secretly takes pictures and reposts them? Particularly if they have signed an NDA of some sort? Then I really don't have a lot of sympathy for them and think they should at least be prosecuted in civil court.
Criminal seems a bit much unless it was something like my example above.
Boojum the brown bunny
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Lock 'em all up!
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