In Response To: Re: Official Halo 4 FUD Teaser Trailer (Cody Miller)
: This is off topic, but you are absolutely so far off base regarding creative
: control, I don't even know where to begin.
: For starters, unless you completely fund the work yourself and control all
: aspects of the distribution and marketing, you do not have complete
: creative control. If you think distributors do not make changes to
: independent films, then you are dead wrong. Distributors often require
: cuts for content in order to make a rating, cuts for content because they
: don't like the content, or cuts for time if they want to be able to show
: more screenings per day.
: If you do not think that Microsoft isn't approving content in this web
: series, then you are pretty delusional, especially when it's a marketing
: tool rather than a bona fide work in and of itself. I guarantee you
: whoever is making this does not have final cut.
: Secondly, large studios very often give creative control to talented artists,
: because there really truly are few of them. Most if not all of the
: "Hollywood Bullcrap" you speak of takes place on films where
: there is no expectation of artistic excellence in the first place.
: I will remind everybody that Warner Brothers started freaking out when nobody
: could understand Bane in the Dark Knight Rises prologue, and so asked
: Nolan to unmuffle Bane's dialogue. Nolan basically said no, and that was
: that. It's certainly within their power to force him to do it, but they
: aren't because he doesn't think it's necessary artistically.
: It certainly still happens, but in this day and age such a thing is far rarer
: when actual artistry is involved, in part because making good movies is
: HARD, and so the less you interfere with truly good filmmakers the better.
: Truth be told it's probably worse for independent films, since the
: director / writer / whatever isn't a name and hasn't been proven yet, so
: the profit motive is near the top.
: The fact that this is a web series has absolutely no bearing on the amount of
: creative control left to the film makers. Keep in mind I know none of the
: details of this production or the arrangements, but there's not much
: chance it will be dramatically different than everything else.
Too tired respond to this right now, but I'm pretty sure you misunderstood me. I know and agree with everything you just said. Maybe I just wasn't clear in my first response. :/
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