Example of crowd sourcing: Life In A Day – 80,000 clips sent in form July 24th 2010 – prosumers film
Example of crowd funding: Born of Hope – Created by film fan Kate Madison, crowd funded after watching trailer YouTube, raised £17000 from responses from trailers
YouTube film festival – Annual online short film competition, 15000 film entries online, YouTube users help to select short list, 10 finalists shown at Venice film festival; then winner gets $500,000, to produce their film on their own youtube channel with support from Scott Free film production company.
Amazon Studios – Part of Amazon which develops new comics, TV shows and films, online submissions of script ideas, crowd sourced feedback giving reviews and ratings, also opportunity to share and develop script ideas, chosen projects given $10,000-$50,000 for fully developed project plus share of Amazon profits, available for download form Amazon Instant Video or LoveFilm in Europe.
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