{"id":3073,"date":"2017-06-27T23:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T06:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2017-06-27T23:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T06:06:44","slug":"rakka-oats-studios-and-making-movies-with-your-fanbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"Rakka, Oats Studios, and making movies with your fanbase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neill Blomkamp (director of Chappie, District 9 <\/em>and Elysium)\u00a0<\/em>sat down with Geoff Keighely during E3 Coliseum to talk about Oats Studios, his experimental film studio. When Blomkamp made the announcement, he said he wanted to focus on short films that could be supported, both financially and through potential collaborations, by the people who watch the films. It\u2019s an interesting idea that\u2019s been explored by other Hollywood heavyweights; Joseph Gordon-Levitt launched HitRecord<\/a>, an online collaborative production company, with his brother in 2005. Since then, the brothers have released multiple short films, books, albums and more.<\/p>\n

The difference between Levitt and Blomkamp, however, is the platform they use. While Levitt just uses his own website to produce and release projects, Blomkamp uses Steam.<\/p>\n

Blomkamp said. \u201cYou think of iTunes but what you don\u2019t get as readily as you can on Steam is like the first film we\u2019re going to put out, or any of the films we put out, we\u2019ll release the raw footage. We\u2019ll release all of the 3D aspects we used to make the visual effects.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll put up the ability for audience members who feel like they have an idea of where another film in that series can go and we can curate that inside Oats. I actually want to work with this user to see where that stream can go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here’s their first volume – Rakka – with Siguorney Weaver of all actors. Is this the future of movie making?
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