Crowdsourcing as a whole...

…is just freaking gnarly. Seriously, after all the craziness we've watched related to crowd-sourcing, from the Johnny Cash music video to the Star Wars reimagining, this is a complete new side of filmmaking that I would've never known about. It is a damn fine display of artistic ability and creative expression, especially to take images and sound that would have no continuity or diegetic logic and blend them together in a pure form of "universal"cinema. I'm actually sweating just talking about it. Just think about the hundreds of films and videos that we see every week and how they could be redone and crowdsourced to create and entirely new film, both visually and emotionally.

Bringing into question the idea of my experience with crowdsourcing, it has been a truly universal way for me to create art. Not only have had I been able to create my own images, but I've been able to inspire others that may believe that they have no business in the art of filmmaking to create their own art because, conceptually, "crowdsourcing" doesn't care if you consider yourself an artist or a filmmaking or a sanitation engineer. Anybody can participate and in many ways, that is where the true art and beauty comes from. It comes from Joe Schmo submitting a random 5 second clip of video combined with a shot from Scorsesee's Raging Bull. It comes from a student filmmaker contributing what he believes to be one of his best shots blended with a tattoo artist drawing a simple animation.

The most important aspect I will take away is that crowdsourcing brings everybody together. Filmmakers of all skills and career levels, drawers, painters, animators, anybody and everybody can participate. As long as they have a passion for what they're creating, an internal vision of art will become an external expression of creativity.


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