Winter Video Project

Twin-Cities based Seven & Sixty Productions is working on a video featuring contributed footage that captures “what is truly unique about winter in Minnesota.” If you like shooting snowflakes and pond hockey and whatnot and want to contribute, read the guidelines.

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urbuddyandy

about 12 years ago

These guys are Crowdsourcing to get this project done. They explain that 

 "We are crowdsourcing footage for two reasons: we want to create a portrait of winter as experienced by a number of different people, in a number of different neighborhoods, by people of different ages and backgrounds, from around the state; and we think the collective result will be more beautiful and surprising than anything we could have set out to film ourselves." 

A collective result may be a great way to show winter, it is also a great way to get a bunch of unpaid people to do a lot of hard work for them. 

Check out wikipedia's great article on crowdsourcing and don't forget the section titled "Controversy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

Don't let your artistic self get taken advantage of.

Paul Lundgren

about 12 years ago

Well, it would be kind of hard to be taken advantage of when the guidelines clearly explain they are crowdsourcing and "this project is not for financial compensation." But maybe I should have made that clearer in my post, so thanks for the alert, Andy.

ruby2sd4y

about 12 years ago

Heh. Point them to that video of the slip-sliding cars on 19th Ave E.

Paul Lundgren

about 12 years ago

Although it doesn't actually seem like something that would be used in this project, I'm always happy to re-post this video, which is well on its way to 1 million views. 

ruby2sd4y

about 12 years ago

*thumbs up* +1  ;-)

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