Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
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Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
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#2Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#3Wow, offering an equity split when you are already so far along. Makes me think, why start my own company. I could just jump on a promising startup that has already done a good deal of hard work. Easier and less risky.
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#4Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
It's great to see an idea that isn't just a clone of some other popular tech service. This looks pretty original; what are your plans for success? How does this scale up?
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#5Wow, offering an equity split when you are already so far along. Makes me think, why start my own company. I could just jump on a promising startup that has already done a good deal of hard work. Easier and less risky.
A really good point. Much risk has been taken out, but I feel pretty strongly that a really strong core team is created when there is real equity in play. I've put in plenty of time and money, but they're not worth anything until we win. I like my chances of winning better with a well incentivized team!
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#6Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
It's great to see an idea that isn't just a clone of some other popular tech service. This looks pretty original; what are your plans for success? How does this scale up?
Thanks! The product is designed with a couple nice little ratchets in mind. People see videos they like, then recognize they can participate. When they participate they invite their friends to watch them - it's instinct. That's the first cycle. The second cycle is that when people don't see a video on a topic they like, they can create one - and invite their friends to contribute. Success is premised on growing the user base through those two cycles, and then selling things like premium editing subscriptions for people who create a lot of content.
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#7Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
Exciting idea. I'd jump on board if I was "single" and in the US.
I love the viral nature of the service - you have to tell your friends about it so they will contribute their clips to your movie.
It would be cool if you had some great placeholders and the author of the clip could edit and cut a placeholder full version. That way as each friend drops their clip in they can view the whole and adjust their part.
Making the system modular so you could collaborate on a large movie would also be cool.
You could have an import tool that accepts a script as a text file. It finds definitions of characters, scenes, dialog, direction, etc.
It then breaks the script into acts, scenes, shots and creates the corresponding data-structures on your end to present same.
You then use chunks of dialog as placeholders for the rendered imagery and presto, instant placeholder movie. Author then replaces dialog with storyboards, early renders, then finished content.
It could be truly social, like a movie creation wiki with many users. Each user might have different permissions to edit, add content for (some subset of) scenes, etc.
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#8Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
I'm actually in real movie studios and around that world every day.
I realizes this is a consumer product, not a directorial production. I'm having trouble grasping this concept: 'You provide an outline of topics for each clip you need'... are you suggesting your client (average consumer, I guess?) would be well prepared to have an entire editing session in their mind and prevized the whole montage in their head before they hire your service? Because that's a bit..er far fetched.
I feel I don't understand it - can you explain it a bit more? My first idea when I heard about consumer oriented MSAAS as you call it, was that you would provide them with guidelines about story structure (however simple it may be - because it can be made formulaic), offer them a slew of templates like digital juice and, on top of that, list them required material to be shot for a given project... and in the end you auto-magically comp and edit it with a sound sheet and they take of their product.
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's great to see an idea that isn't just a clone of some other popular tech service. This looks pretty original; what are your plans for success? How does this scale up?
Thanks! The product is designed with a couple nice little ratchets in mind. People see videos they like, then recognize they can participate. When they participate they invite their friends to watch them - it's instinct. That's the first cycle. The second cycle is that when people don't see a video on a topic they like, they can create one - and invite their friends to contribute. Success is premised on growing the u…
This is the part that would worry me regarding scaling:
"The pieces get plugged in to the appropriate areas, combined and narrated into beautiful product that you can share on all your favorite outlets"
Who does the combination and narration? The quality of the final movie is going to be a strong driver perception of your product - how do you ensure the quality stays high as you grow?
Is it the users that do the narration? That might make it easier, but then your value proposition drops since they could use iMovie, right?
I think it's a cool idea though; definitely sounds interesting.
Re: Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted
#10Would love feedback on this post - no mercy expected!
I'm actually in real movie studios and around that world every day. I realizes this is a consumer product, not a directorial production. I'm having trouble grasping this concept: 'You provide an outline of topics for each clip you need'... are you suggesting your client (average consumer, I guess?) would be well prepared to have an entire editing session in their mind and prevized the whole montage in their head befo…
You know, I have stayed away from the "MSAAS" tag in any consumer facing concepts because I feel like that will scare away the average user. The right level of complexity to consider is a wedding tribute video. Ten friends of the couple speak on a topic each: when they were young, how they met, why they're good for each other, etc. We then take those clips and put them together with great transitions, overlays, and copy, and what you have is something that is not fully scripted but far more linear and story-like than, say, an Animoto project. We'll be doing these on all kinds of topics, of course - the wedding thing just gives you a sense for the structure.