Tulpa

Hello everyone, I'm a long time lurker here and I have some fairly big questions that I'm hoping some here can help with. I've been working on a documentary series 8 parts (all between 30-60 min) that is getting closer to being finished and am trying to understand how to get it seen. I doubt that it will have an easy path towards broadcast or getting picked up by a streaming service due to the (unpolitically correct) nature of the content. It's nothing too crazy but lots of swearing and ethical issues around the nature of the rough characters. I'm also flat broke now, so I can't get it to one of these agent types who can get it in front of a streaming service. I also don't know how festivals would be able to show something like this. Currently, the project includes short clips of unlicensed material taken from other films in China. These clips serve as a reference to songs that my characters just happened launch into while we were shooting that fir with the situation they were in. The (15) clips are no more than about 30 secs. I cut them into the project to see if they would work. At the time, I imagined that if I could find further funding, I'd be able to license the clips. But I've come to understand that it is a huge undertaking to get clearance on this kind of material. And having contacted one of the distributors, he told me that they don't license their material 'in perpetuity.' Towards distribution - and as it seems like there are few other options - Naturally I've been thinking about both Vimeo and Youtube. I'd rather the project live on Vimeo as it seems like a better fit. But towards the 'unlicensed material'... and from what I understand, Youtube will sometimes(?) allow us to use unlicensed material in our projects if we provide some kind of acknowledgement to the copyright holder. Correct? Any thoughts here? On the other hand, and as I understand, Vimeo doesn't allow for this. Correct? On the Vimeo side, I currently have a Plus account but that (as we know) only allows for 5gb uploads and I doubt that will support the (30-60min) file sizes I'd want to upload. To get a Pro account seems like a significant expense over the years for what will be probably little return. I've considered having to break the 8 parts into smaller parts so that my Vimeo Plus account can handle the 5gb uploads. Is this what some of you do? The project was shot in 1080 and I'm on an old Macbook Pro that would probably take forever to export h.265 - given that that is a way to reduce file sizes. Is this what some of you would suggest as a way to get the file sizes down? I'd greatly appreciate ANY and ALL insights. Thanks!

Very well said. Thank you. What is interesting is the journey. And how it informs and expresses itself as we develop. A healthy moral compass in parallel. It's clear that it takes a lot of ambition to put oneself out there like our man Christian... let's wish him well in using his work as a vehicle for introspection and process. That seems decent enough. Oscar Wild has a quote I quite like... 'consistency is the refuge of the unimaginative.'

C - roll? I wonder if he is down at the patent office as I write this.

Nice post Kai. Of course I also love to roll through old material of the way things were. Often it does have value. But (as we know) there is a profound sickness (narcissism?) unfolding in and around the need to capture (archive) our lives. I guess it comes down to intention. If it's mindless vacant crap done to stroke the ego via social media, then I balk. But this is larger than just me, so who am I to say... and I do understand the underlying need to connect which is human enough. But then, it becomes about 'what' is being shared. And then of course, there is the 'profitibility' side of things which is a huge loaded gun... as our biosphere heaves and groans. I actually feel sorry for the guy in the clip. There literally tens of thousands of these guys who all look the same, sound the same though they see themselves as unique and special. If it were up to me, I would send him to live with the Papuans for a decade to unlearn what he has. And of course... no camera allowed. But that's no answer either 😉

Thanks again @independent I'll take a look at the 15-35.

Thanks! Can I ask what lenses you are using and how do you like them?

Hello EOS forum members. I haven't been able to find much online info on how well the adapted EF lenses work on the R5. Does anyone here have any first hand experience?