| Wreckamovie | |
| Url: | http://www.Wreckamovie.com/ |
| Location: | Tampere, Finland |
| Type: | Collaboration tool for movie making[1] |
| Language: | English |
| Registration: | Required for input, reading free |
| Owner: | Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd (commercial)[2] |
| Author: | Timo Vuorensola |
| Commercial: | No |
| Current Status: | Defunct |
| Content License: | Free sharing, free agreement |
Wreckamovie was a collaborative film production platform to allow individuals to set up a film production and find a community to collaborate with, or find others' interesting film productions and become a collaborator in a worknet. Its aim was to make filmmaking easier, more effective and possible for everyone.[3]
Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd and Wreckamovie were created by a group of filmmakers from Finland, who in 2005 created the freely downloadable Star Trek parody movie . It gained web fame for being created and distributed by a community of enthusiasts over the internet, and for its special effects made on a shoestring budget using standard home computers. The experiences of the group creating the aforementioned film, their first feature film, led them to develop a platform that was open and easy to use for everyone.[4]
The termination of the platform was announced on its Facebook page on October 13, 2014.[5]
Wreckamovie was considered a model example of the potential of Web 2.0 by Cisco Systems' Finland Oy. As a business model it presented the exact opposite of the traditional way of making movies. With it a community creates and distributes the film, and only then, once popularity has already been gained, profitability steps in.[6]
The Wreckamovie model was built on online collaboration in service of the production of professional-quality audiovisual projects, such as short films and music videos to feature-length films. The model applied open source ideology and crowd sourced work and financing. Central to this was creating a community for each project to request assistance in production tasks.[3] It was designed to films together with its community, and thus foster interaction with the audience beginning with the development stage.[7] The service did not distinguish between "professionals" and "amateurs", but emphasized enthusiasm and engagement.[8]
The distribution model was intended to go beyond online distribution, targeting traditional movie screens to cell phones,[9] leveraging the existing community supporting the project as a basis for viral marketing.
Wreckamovie was used for the Finnish horror film Sauna.[10] It was also used for the production of the reference movie for the service, the feature-length scifi parody Iron Sky., which reportedly raised 12% of its budget through the platform. There were more than 300 active projects listed on Wreckamovie in 2009.[11]
In 2008 the movie production community Wreck-A-Movie was elected the winner of the MindTrek Grand Prix 2008, €20 008.[12] In October 2009 Wreckamovie was chosen among the 36 finalists in SIME conference's Rising Star of the North -competition, finishing 23rd overall.[13]