Social Trend: Wreckamovie.com

Wreckamovie.com is an innovative online community of aspiring filmmakers. It involves the cross-pollination of e-entertainment and interactive social networking. Merging analogue and digital platforms, the website provides a platform for people of different backgrounds and technical skills to collaborate on all sorts of film projects from shorts to full features.

It all began with a small movie phenomenon in 2005 from Finland called Star Wreck. With the help of global distributors and a talented and creative online community a crew of five filmmakers proved that even on a small budget anything is possible. Their film quickly spread to 3000 of their online friends letting them open up a small studio that made Wreckamovie.com possible. Star Wreck studio has become the home and foundation for Wreckamovie.com.  

The website is completely devoted to its online community as a social network for people to get involved in film production. Utilizing the power of crowd-sourced work, viral marketing and independent global distribution Wreckamovie.com has started a revolutionary concept in filmmaking that can take on the film industry on its own terms.

Task Analysis:

1)   Register: name, e-mail etc. – similar to Face Book and YouTube

2)   Once you become a member you have the freedom and ability to search around and explore the work of other members, different projects, ideas and concepts up in the air. This stage is to get you inspired for the potential of what online film potential can be.

3)   As a member you also have the ability to post your own ideas, screenplays or actual material to get feedback and promote yourself within the community. The content that you post has to be your own.

4)   As a full-fledged member you can also choose the tasks that you could be responsible for on a project: The list ranges from artists and actors to editors and producers.

5)   At this point you have the ability to either join an existing project or create your own and promote it.

6)   Once you have joined a project or developed your own a production leader must be appointed. This person gains the power to have final cut and be in charge of the decision making process as well as the legal rights of a project.

7)   Wreckamovie.com is meant to be a collaborative effort meaning that once a project is completed, videos can be uploaded and viewed by other members. Even in the early stages of concept development you can post sketches online to receive feedback from others.

8)   Once a project is completed promotion and distribution will become the main goals.