<story><title>Why the Film Industry Hasn&apos;t Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5</title><url>http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Keyframe</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a multi-tiered problem with each one with its own complexities. I don&amp;#x27;t want to write a long story now, but I want to emphasise one and one thing only.&lt;p&gt;If you want to disrupt film and&amp;#x2F;or tv industry then you have to disrupt people, not technology (by much). It&amp;#x27;s a people problem.&lt;p&gt;It takes a lot of people in a collaborative manner to work on a product like that, with each person being skilled and expensive. You need a lot of people like that for a long time. You also need wood, nails, paint, cars, space, energy... lots of those in order to build sets. And someone to imagine them and someone to design them.&lt;p&gt;Having a fancy camera, grip, lenses is a tiny tiny proportion of any reasonable-sized budget. Most of the money goes to people and towards materials, rentals and space for sets.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a lot of money too, if you want to make something reasonable. Not everything can be made on a small budget with innovative story. Some products can, but not majority.&lt;p&gt;What it means is that you need a lot of cash, and for that you need investors (or deep pockets and then you don&amp;#x27;t care, maybe). With investors there are expectations of return on investment. And with that you&amp;#x27;re in the realm of distribution.. and then real complexities come forward.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t expect to raise anything moderate in crowd-funding for these types of products. It&amp;#x27;s too much for the level where that is now.&lt;p&gt;Note: I work in this industry. I have or have access to free state-of-the-art cameras, grip, lenses, even studio facilities and more, yet I can&amp;#x27;t make a movie just like that. I still need to pay lots of people to do their job and pay the materials for (at least some) sets or set dressing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a people problem. They need to eat and pay bills and they don&amp;#x27;t care (much) about your grand vision if you&amp;#x27;re not paying.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why the Film Industry Hasn&apos;t Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5</title><url>http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>The article&amp;#x27;s Part 1 refers to an old HN thread and buried in there is a good comment from 	
anactofgod about &amp;quot;disrupting Hollywood&amp;quot;:  
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3491584&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3491584&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;His analysis has similar to themes to the misunderstanding of &amp;quot;gatekeepers&amp;quot; like Netflix &amp;#x2F; Amazon Video &amp;#x2F; HBO and why they exist.&lt;p&gt;Gatekeepers are an &lt;i&gt;emergent property&lt;/i&gt; of artists not having money to self-finance their projects -- and -- also not wanting to mess around with tasks that are unrelated to creativity such as managing a web server farm to distribute their videos to their fans.&lt;p&gt;There was a recent HN thread where people were frustrated that they had to pay for multiple streaming services (Netflix&amp;#x2F;Hulu&amp;#x2F;Amazon) to get &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; the shows they wanted.      Several suggested that we need to move towards a decentralized P2P distribution platform.  Unfortunately, as techies and programmers, we don&amp;#x27;t consider the underlying economic forces that created the centralized gatekeepers in the first place.  For example... if director&amp;#x2F;producer David Fincher wants the highest payment for his project, he can go to Netflix execs and convince them give him $100 million[1].  How would he get that kind of payday from decentralized systems such as IPFS &amp;#x2F; Sandstorm &amp;#x2F; DECENT[2]?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;netflix-outbids-hbo-david-fincher-167882&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;netflix-outbids-hbo-da...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;decent.ch&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;decent.ch&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>