1st Social networking made film?

16 Jun, 2008 Hmmmm...

Faintheart is billed as “The world’s first publicly generated movie.” by Jamie Kantrowitz, vice-president of marketing for MySpace. With a budget of $2.6 million the film was created with the input of MySpace subscribers. The MySpace group was asked to choose the director and the music, they also vied for small roles in the film and provided input on plot development.

This should be an interesting experiment and I am anxious to see it. I am a big movie fan, and I love films from all genres. I also spent a good portion of my career working in the film and television industry and I know that the more input a project has the more diluted it becomes. My guess is that making films this way will ultimately fail although the novelty of it will probably give it a good albeit short lived run.

Sorry there does not seem to be a trailer available for this one yet… but a Faintheart trailer Google search brings up a whole lot of auditions.