Open source filmmaking-Stray Cinema

Published on: 25th September, 2009

Stray Cinema is an open source movie. The raw footage from a film shot in Barcelona has been made available for the public to download from the Stray Cinema website. This is the second open source movie provided by Stray Cinema. The idea is to provide people with the opportunity to create their own version of the film, following the guidelines set by the Open Source movement found in software development and licensing.

To participate, people must edit a one-two minute version of the film they wish to make from the available footage. Participants are then invited to post this manipulated footage back onto the Stray Cinema website, to be judged by their online community. The only stipulation is that the finished product contain at least 80 per cent of the original footage and be no longer than two minutes in duration. Film makers can add their own sound or download music created by participating musicians on websites such as MySpace.

The top five films will be screened alongside the original film cut, at an official Stray Cinema screening in Barcelona six months from the day there are 30 film submissions on the website.

Stary Cinema is a very useful resource for filmmaking students. You can download the footage from http://straycinema.com and use it for your editing exercises.

You can watch some of the film submitted by the users at http://straycinema.com/watch/

You can download the footage from here

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