Star Wreck: The Next Generation
Make it so
OPEN SAUCERS RUN FOR the hills! The Hollywood hills that is, because a Finnish firm reckons that it’s built an open sauce film platform which will let the (un)talented mobs swamp us with their movie genius, and artistry, probably quite aptly dubbed “Star Wreck”.
Peter Vesterbacka, a board member of Star Wreck studios, is not at all shy about stating his ambitious goal to take down Hollywood, calling the company’s new platform a tool to help in “wrecking the Hollywood model”.
The Finnish film fanatic believes that everyone who wants to should be able to produce their own cinematic extravaganza online, because, let’s face it, with so much rubbish coming out of major studios, how much worse could it get? “Hollywood only distributes 700 films a year, but there are 100,000 people in Hollywood with film ideas”, he gushed. Yes. But the problem is, they’re all too busy waiting tables and shining shoes for nickels.
But maybe now, instead of having to wait for their big break to arrive, the masses of starry eyed, low income, parent disappointing dreamers can kick start their ambitions by making low budget films that require nothing but an HD video camera (by our quick calculation, if you donate a few gallons of blood, a kidney or lung and work extra hard for good tips, it should only take about three months to save up for one).
Star Wreck reckons that this way, more ideas will find their way to the viewing public, who can then decide for themselves how talented a filmmaker is, and how good the movie is. Surely that explains why YouTube’s most popular videos are always so rich in plot and raw talent. Oh, sorry, that’s only the porn.
Star Wreck’s first film, which, we feel really rather sums up the platform’s potential, is purportedly called “Iron Sky”, and apparently has something to do with Nazis in space. What were they traveling in, we wonder, open saucers? µ
NOTE: To all those already clicking furiously away at “Flame the author”, we do know how to spell, and we do know that it is actually “open source” and not sauce. But we prefer sauce. Its saucier. And its lunchtime, and we’re hungry. So just let it go!
L’Inq
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Open Sauce is one of my favourite Inq-isms
Windows ME II for Vista is also a favourite.Project Excalibur
What about that? http://www.stexcalibur.com/It'll be available long before Iron Sky.
Not based on open saucer or online, but made by fans for fans.
Error: Spelling
You speled open source rong, noob.._. says: "meep!"
Ironsky
These guys made that 7th Star Wreck movie with 15000€ (23000 USD) and they had Hollywood quality special effects and loads of it.. wonder what they can do now when they have 2500000€ budget? Perhaps they could hire professional actors.Iron Sky: Nazi people went to Moon 1945 and built base there. 2018 they are coming back. Intresting idea for a comedy
I'll be waiting for yer all-★ feature, then...
arter lunch, of course...★The INQUIRER's Fancy★
given me the chillz just thinking
how jealous the beeb will be.
If not Hollywood, why not
Haymarket House Indecisive Media?
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Good Deal
I hope they succeed in taking down that bunch of yuppies.I think they pulled ur leg!!
I think ppl who read INQ. know who you all write as in tackky way.. and sause is source!!Silly Readers
Its funny when people that don't normally read the INQ pop in and wonder what are boffins or who is this Vole they speak of.They should take a look around the archives and see when boffins, sauce, the vole and chipzilla were explained.
Stars Wrecked
You haven't seen Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning yet? A full length, hilarious movie under the Creative Commons license.Streamed at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-725105947005153945 with English subtitles, downloadable at http://www.starwreck.com/download.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck
It's not just the effects
It it the same team that did "In the Pirkinning" a couple years ago ?Anyway... what this proves is that the special effects are the easy part. The hard part is to gave GOOD ACTORS and A GOOD STORY ... which the Pirkinning certainly did NOT have. Even now, some of the Start Trek TOS episodes with its laughable 60's effects, are actually pretty watchable because there's good acting and good writing. (Some, I said).
Here's more resources /l inks
Machinima Center (Movies made using games) www.machinima.comCeltx - Open Source Scriptwriting Software + Community www.celtx.com
Bah, don't know what other links I can find useful for would-be filmmakers.
~The Dude
100K actors, not ideas
There are 100K "actors" in Hollywood, not 100K people with film ideas. Who knows how many film ideas there are.Official Inquirer Dictionary
I think we need one for:open sauce
graphzilla
chipzilla
etc
etc
Just for the n00bs of course ... who passed primary school and want to heap scorn on their superiors ... and whose humour they cannot comprehend.
Poor concrete operational thinkers ...
sad eh?
heh heh
9 out of 10 special features show
Give character-studios a bit more time and you won't even need a camera, just an 3D animation making app (like the games designers and movie effects use), an audio making app, and something like Premiere to synch them together. Then throw in a few other app's, that are better at certain things (eg - modelling, a 2D for textures, effects add ons), and what you have is a studio in a workstation, totalling a few grand, and that's you able to make films from then on.It won't replace all kinds of movies, but it could well replace the many that are already dependant on CGI and partial-CGI.
Hmm...
Didn't Star Trek Enterprise actually DO an episode about Nazis in space?Free the data
I love it. I hope these people get a shedload of press, because there´s no freaking way the public WOULDN´T do better with using the YouTube/crowd-sourcing method for finding good talent and skilled people.Sure, it´s going to start out as a fringe element that people are going to think of as a fad. But, the potential, OMG, the potential for what it could become. Almost no chance of it succeeding in any major way, in my opinion, but I would be very glad to be proven wrong. :)
I love fan films
Yeah, they have rough edges, but the love that the film makers have for their art shines through, the films have a life that Hollywood productions just don't have.
Star Wreck is a good example of this. The humor was juvenile, but quite frankly the only official Trek movie that was better was ST2 - The Wrath of Khan. Or consider Star Wars - Revelations, which is also damned good, better than the three prequels that Lucas did and cost mega bucks to produce.
So I wish them the best of luck, and look forward to seeing lots of interesting stuff.
Nazis in Star Trek
There was an episode of ST:TOS (you know, the one with Shatner) which had Nazis in space.Only it wasn't the Nazis, it was a society founded on the image of the Nazis. So they all wore the uniform, at least.
Then Shatner and co landed on the planet, said "Nazis are bad, mmmkay? You all shouldn't be Nazis," and that was that for another week.
Hugely entertaining for an 8-year-old. Shatner was great. As was Lost in Space and Land of the Giants (70s versions).
So thats the problem
Here all this time I have been looking for open sauce software, oh how many hours I have wasted. If I had only known that it was actually open SOURCE. Thanks for the tip ishwa.Pirk and Sherrypie versus Hollywood
The work is available as a region 1 and region 2 DVD. It's worth getting a free download from www.starwreck.com, but to purchase the DVD will help the Finns. Give it a try, then re-read the original review for fairness and impartiaility.