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This article is about the film project. For the Houston noise music band, see Swarm of Angels.
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A Swarm of Angels project poster

A Swarm of Angels (ASOA) is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers (the "Swarm of Angels"), each contributing £25 to the production. This feature film and associated original media project embraces the Creative Commons notion of flexible copyright licencing, to permit people to freely download, share, and remix the original media made for the project.

A Swarm of Angels is the brainchild of film producer and author Matt Hanson, founder of the onedotzero digital film festival. He has labelled the process Cinema 2.0. It would be the first time for a project of this scale to be funded, produced and distributed in this way.

Advisors to A Swarm of Angels include science fiction author and copyright activist Cory Doctorow, graphic novelist Warren Ellis, pioneer digital filmproducer Tommy Pallotta, and musical mashup artist Eric Kleptone of The Kleptones.

Participation

A Swarm of Angels is recruiting a community capped at 50,000. Members can have a say in the script development. Two scripts are being developed, with one to be chosen by ASOA members to be produced. The scripts are currently being developed via the project forum, and are entitled, The Unfold, and The Ravages (formerly known as Glitch). According to the official website, the first two A Swarm of Angels are "likely to be thriller based with soft sci-fi elements."

The project had its first voting day on 21 September, 2006, where members were polled on certain decisions via their forum, The Nine Orders.

Recognition

The project won the R&D/Innovation category Britain's Digital Elite awards (sponsored by Real Business magazine and Microsoft) in October 2007.

The project was nominated for the May 2006 "Next Big Web Thing" award, which it subsequently won.

Challenges

After gaining big interest and participation levels during the first year in which the project was launched, development has slowed significantly in 2008 due to the challenges of scaling up from hundreds to thousands of participants. Forum contributions have slowed in late 2008 due to member activity having a high signal to noise ratio, and being predicated on production activity and participation rounds.

In early 2009 the official webpage was taken offline to reset the project information for the next phase of production and scaling of extreme collaboration. This was in direct response to criticism of the information density of the project, with subsequent difficulty in engagement for new users.

Project updates have been continuing via micro-blog updates, however the old forum is still currently accessible to members. The slow progress of the project has meant a delay in pre-ordered member-only posters.

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References

  1. About // A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema
  2. A Swarm of Angels » Remixing cinema » Team
  3. Open Source cinema wows the crowd.
  4. The Next Big Web Thing: A Swarm Of Angels

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