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  • shneancy@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonearmyrule
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    7 days ago

    Well, they’re negligible enough that the fact they exist wasn’t covered anywhere during my filmmaking degree, and i took all the extra business/law modules :')

    And it was just the writers & actors right? What about all the editors, audio mixers, audio recorders, camera men, gaffers? riggers, vfx people, script supervisors, storyboard artists, props & costumes department, even runners! There’s just so much work to be done by so many people to bring a script to life, and we’re yet to hear of an editor/camera op/runner who lucked out by being a part of an accidentally famous billion dollar film and then never had to work again. Apart from producers, directors, actors, and writers sometimes - everyone’s work, though essential for audio visual media to exist, is rarely rewarded with a share of the profits it makes

    Nebula has been slowly surpassing just “rebranded youtube content” so to speak. They’ve started financing films and plays like for Abigail Thorn, and they’re still true to their founding ethos. It’s no longer just higher quality youtube content, and i do hope to see them one day become more widely known and popular




  • and let’s not forget that piracy still allows for the most powerful form of advertisement - word of mouth. You might’ve not paid to watch something, but if it was good and you recommended it to your friends, they might!

    back in the old Internet days the music studio Two Steps From Hell gained popularity nearly exclusively through piracy. I’m not even sure if they sold any albums before the widespread reupload of their music happened. I myself found out about them from a long deleted anime music video. And I have since bought several of their CDs and saw them live in Europe (after fans have begged them for nearly a decade to go on a tour). Would I have known they even existed if their music wasn’t spreading like illegal wildfire in the early 2010s? probably not, which would be a shame because they’re one of my all time favourite band-thingies idk how to call them





  • shneancy@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonearmyrule
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    8 days ago

    “taking the money creators would have made”

    fun fact! this is not how the entertainment industry works.

    The actual creators have long been paid for their work when a film/series releases, the only people who profit from the sales are those who own the IP, which is usually the production company (and the actors sometimes, if they decided to take a gamble and agreed on recieving royalties instead of signing a fixed contract. Or rarely the director, if their name alone can sell a film)

    unless it’s like a fully indie film, self made, self produced, and self published, people who made the thing never see the sales money

    & there is very little inbetween those two extremes, only thing that comes to my mind is works either commissioned by, or sold to a streaming service (& most of the time creators lose the IP rights if they do that).

    so far the only exception to all this bullshit that i know of is Nebula




  • isn’t it logical to think that though?

    bread requires figuring out that ground up grain with water can be poured onto a rock heated up by fire and made into a tasty pancake thingy

    a knife requires a sharp rock, a stick, and a bit of rope made out of tightly twisted plant fibers

    i’m reasonably confident if i was thrown into a jungle i’d be able to DIY myself a basic knife within a day or two, perhaps even before getting mauled by wild animals. Bread though? Even with the foresight of knowing what i need i’d struggle. Rocks, sticks, and plants are pretty much everywhere. Where do i find wild grain??