Open Source Film-Making: Prospects and Challenges

Film-making was once considered as an expensive career option. Films are made on budgets of huge amount of money expecting a huge return on their investment. With the advent of digital technology, New Media and Social Media, an alternative mode of film-making has emerged- Open Source Film or opencontent film. These are films that are produced and distributed by using free and open-source software’s. The paper deals with the opportunities created in the creative expression and the democratization of the film industry through open source film movement and the challenges it faces in various aspects. It also undertake some glimpses from such films to analyze the common features and characteristics of open source films. The rules, regulations, licenses and issues like copyright and copyleft are also discussed in the paper. The present status, future prospects, opportunities and challenges of open source films when different forms of closed or proprietary models dominate in the film industry.

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