Myspace Film Site
I think its important to note the date I'm posting this. I'm very disappointed in the Myspace Film site. First of all i think its honorable that they are trying to create a community within film, similar to what they did with music. I hope that over the next couple months the film site will improve immensely and that this posting will become obsolete, but since most of our preliminary publicity is based around the myspace community I wanted to take a moment and voice my concerns about the site.
First of all, my biggest concern comes from the upload process. I've gone through the forums to find if I'm the only one having problems with it, but it certainly appears as though I'm not alone. It seem that myspace is generally Mac unfriendly. For a place that is trying to boast a filmmakers space I think their first market they would make sure that their community would work with is Macs. After all it was iMovie that really opened up filmmaking for the majority of people. I've tried numerous times to upload my films, and it might not even be my Mac (or the browser: Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.0.3), but its either that or the quicktime compression I put on my films. One way or the other (since quicktime is an integral part of the Mac platform) I feel like their failure to meet the needs of the Mac community is a mistake.
Solution: Myspace needs to do one of two things. If it is a problem with Macs (or their browsers), they need to fix it and quick. I have a feeling though its more likely a problem with the Quicktime compression. If indeed that is the problem they need to either specify exactly how people need to compress their films in Quicktime or they need to come out with a compression application that everyone is expected to use before uploading their films.
My second concern about Myspace Film is that they should start thinking about the future of how people are watching films. Applications such as Democracy and FireANT are trying to answer that question, and I think that the longevity of the Myspace Film site will be dependent on how they too are thinking of that future. If people would be able to set up an XML or RSS feed from their Myspace film page, I think there would be more to consider for people involved in the myspace universe. One of the greatest things about myspace is its ability to network and connect friends. As well the community created within these networks allow for people to communicate their ideas. If a viewer and a community can be created into one site/application I believe it would have the greatest chance to succeed.
Solution: I think I mapped it out already but Myspace should start researching how it expects to allow users to distribute their films while keeping the community ideals of the Myspace name.
I'd also like to add that many filmmakers had made a Myspace page, previous to the creation of the Myspace Filmmaker site. I tried switching my account over to a Filmspace, but it is still not working... its a little thing... but a big thing for those who have already established pages.
Of course one of the other main fundamental myspace attributes is its ease of use, and right now the Myspace film site isn't easy. At this point (March 7, 2006) Myspace has some work to do before its film site can be utilized on a broad film community level. As a vlogger I have been frustrated with Myspace and would like to see some changes before I can incorporate it fully with my project.
First of all, my biggest concern comes from the upload process. I've gone through the forums to find if I'm the only one having problems with it, but it certainly appears as though I'm not alone. It seem that myspace is generally Mac unfriendly. For a place that is trying to boast a filmmakers space I think their first market they would make sure that their community would work with is Macs. After all it was iMovie that really opened up filmmaking for the majority of people. I've tried numerous times to upload my films, and it might not even be my Mac (or the browser: Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.0.3), but its either that or the quicktime compression I put on my films. One way or the other (since quicktime is an integral part of the Mac platform) I feel like their failure to meet the needs of the Mac community is a mistake.
Solution: Myspace needs to do one of two things. If it is a problem with Macs (or their browsers), they need to fix it and quick. I have a feeling though its more likely a problem with the Quicktime compression. If indeed that is the problem they need to either specify exactly how people need to compress their films in Quicktime or they need to come out with a compression application that everyone is expected to use before uploading their films.
My second concern about Myspace Film is that they should start thinking about the future of how people are watching films. Applications such as Democracy and FireANT are trying to answer that question, and I think that the longevity of the Myspace Film site will be dependent on how they too are thinking of that future. If people would be able to set up an XML or RSS feed from their Myspace film page, I think there would be more to consider for people involved in the myspace universe. One of the greatest things about myspace is its ability to network and connect friends. As well the community created within these networks allow for people to communicate their ideas. If a viewer and a community can be created into one site/application I believe it would have the greatest chance to succeed.
Solution: I think I mapped it out already but Myspace should start researching how it expects to allow users to distribute their films while keeping the community ideals of the Myspace name.
I'd also like to add that many filmmakers had made a Myspace page, previous to the creation of the Myspace Filmmaker site. I tried switching my account over to a Filmspace, but it is still not working... its a little thing... but a big thing for those who have already established pages.
Of course one of the other main fundamental myspace attributes is its ease of use, and right now the Myspace film site isn't easy. At this point (March 7, 2006) Myspace has some work to do before its film site can be utilized on a broad film community level. As a vlogger I have been frustrated with Myspace and would like to see some changes before I can incorporate it fully with my project.
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