This is the presentation I prepared for the ATACD Conference, which took place in Barcelona last week. This is based on the current stage of my research and represents the evolution of a previous presentation for the ECREA Digital Media Conference held in Berlin last November.
1. Antoni Roig Telo Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Mediaccions Research Group ( www.mediacciones.es ) ATACD. Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change Barcelona, 10-12 December, 2009 Where mass media and social production meet: change and continuity in participatory audiovisual projects
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7. Case study structure X-ILE PICTURES (USA): related to fan culture Energia Productions (Finland): related to fan culture Comparative A Swarm Of Angels/ ASOA (UK): related to ‘open source culture’ Transference Transference
8. X-ILE Pictures (USA): brand of director and entrepreneur Shane Felux since 2006, particularly renowned for his Star Wars fan movies: Revelations (2005) and Pitching Lucas (2006). In 2007 and 2008 Felux produced for Stage 9 Media (affiliated with Disney) the sci-fi webseries Trenches Cases overview
9. Energia Productions (Finland): brand established in 2006 by the Finnish team behind popular fan film Star Wreck: in the pirkinning fan film (considered the first feature film freely distributed on the Internet). Alliated with Universal Pictures Scandinavia for a commercial DVD release; presently co-producing sci-fi comedy Iron Sky and promoting a collaborative movie platform, Wreck a movie Cases overview
10. A Swarm Of Angels (UK): project initiated by Matt Hanson in 2006 with the aim of building a community for the collaborative development of an open source movie from its early stages. Redefinition of the production process as important as final product Cases overview