Rootclip

What's up party people, Erik and I are getting together tonight to get some things together and plan out the next few months at Rootclip. One of the ideas is to open up Chapter 1 to users, giving 2-3 weeks for submissions, then the standard voting period and the story goes from there.

Good idea? Bad idea? Do you have any ideas?

Works for me! However there might need to be some ground rules on the elements. Might kind of suck if the winning video said you needed to wear a gorilla suit and daisy dukes. Not everybody has daisy dukes. Hehe.

I do. :<

I'll make chapter one if that will kick off a new Rootclip!

Looking forward to seeing it, however its made

Seems like news travels slowly. This site is in desperate need of a reboot.

It's actually in desperate need of funding! We're considering funding options still, since post-Scripps Rootclip isn't bringing in what we're putting out. ._.

Suggestions?

Forget the funding. Shut the site down and create a channel or group on Vimeo or YouTube. Have the URL redirect to whatever you create. Just do what we always wanted to do with these collaborative stories over there and forget about the advertising, prizes, etc. Makes it all a LOT simpler.

This is completely just my humble opinion, though, and does not reflect the overall opinions and decisions of Rootclip.

I would suggest Ning.com as a publishing platform. For under $100 a month, you can keep overhead down, not have to worry about development costs, still have a platform to publish video, maintain a member community and member generated content and keep advertising spots and promotional space.

From there you can devise different activities outside of the general premise of a community for collaborative filmmaking.

Heh, I like Erik's strategy; the fun of collaborative filmmaking without the cost. :P

I'm a little nervous how many new contributors we can suck in if we're not offering prizes from somewhere, though... :/ Ideas?