Hello everyone. I am a web developer, but I do photography and filmmaking as a hobby.
I'm thinking about creating a web portal for Indie filmmakers, but since I'm not that deep into the filmmaking world, I'd like to ask for your opinions. I'm not even sure if something like this already exists.
Here is what the project is about: To help indie filmmakers and non-budget films/short films during the process, and advertise them in the web portal after the film is being made.
The web platform will have 2 modes
Public projects(short films, music videos and etc) which everyone will see and people could apply to be a part of the project. For example - if the owner of the film needs an actor or editor or whatever, that would be shown on the project's page and people could apply in order to start the process of going into production.
Private projects(short films, music videos and etc) which are not shown to the public, but only to the team members(actors, directors and etc) invited by the creator of the projects. Together they have a dashboard of the project, which includes uploading files(scripts, shooting location photos), an online editor for screenwriting, an online editor for storyboards, online group chat for the projects, a calendar for creating meetings, connected to google calendar and more, with the idea that everything connected with shooting the film will be in one place and all the people involved will have access to everything and communicate with each other.
So every filmmaker can use the platform in 2 ways, either to start with a public project in order to gain cast, crew, budget, or you can skip that part with a private project if you already have cast and crew, and only use the dashboard which will have everything you need for you and the other people involved to keep everything about your project in one place and get through all the stages of the filmmaking process and get your short film for example done. Once your short film is done, you can use the platform to share it with the rest of the community(getting recognition).
I'm gonna say again that I have no clue if something like that exists, I know online storyboard and online screenwriting tools exist, but other than that, I couldn't find something like that combined together.
Is it even worth building something like that for the indie filmmakers? Do you guys even need something like that?
I'd be happy to hear all the opinions that you have. It's just an idea that I had in the last couple of days and I'm not sure if I should go through with it.
I'm thinking about creating a web portal for Indie filmmakers, but since I'm not that deep into the filmmaking world, I'd like to ask for your opinions. I'm not even sure if something like this already exists.
Here is what the project is about: To help indie filmmakers and non-budget films/short films during the process, and advertise them in the web portal after the film is being made.
The web platform will have 2 modes
Public projects(short films, music videos and etc) which everyone will see and people could apply to be a part of the project. For example - if the owner of the film needs an actor or editor or whatever, that would be shown on the project's page and people could apply in order to start the process of going into production.
Private projects(short films, music videos and etc) which are not shown to the public, but only to the team members(actors, directors and etc) invited by the creator of the projects. Together they have a dashboard of the project, which includes uploading files(scripts, shooting location photos), an online editor for screenwriting, an online editor for storyboards, online group chat for the projects, a calendar for creating meetings, connected to google calendar and more, with the idea that everything connected with shooting the film will be in one place and all the people involved will have access to everything and communicate with each other.
So every filmmaker can use the platform in 2 ways, either to start with a public project in order to gain cast, crew, budget, or you can skip that part with a private project if you already have cast and crew, and only use the dashboard which will have everything you need for you and the other people involved to keep everything about your project in one place and get through all the stages of the filmmaking process and get your short film for example done. Once your short film is done, you can use the platform to share it with the rest of the community(getting recognition).
I'm gonna say again that I have no clue if something like that exists, I know online storyboard and online screenwriting tools exist, but other than that, I couldn't find something like that combined together.
Is it even worth building something like that for the indie filmmakers? Do you guys even need something like that?
I'd be happy to hear all the opinions that you have. It's just an idea that I had in the last couple of days and I'm not sure if I should go through with it.