Star Wreck Studios: open source film projects

Star Wreck Studios aims to create a platform to help independent films get made through crowdsourcing. The idea for such a platform is based on the success of their first internet-based film project, Star Wreck, which is the most successful Internet Feature Film of all time. There was no major production company behind the film, but five students and unemployed people from Tampere, a bit of blue linoleum and a few home computers. With these building blocks they created a great adventure and a motion picture that was downloaded over 5 million times so far. The big productions couldn’t afford catering for the money that went into our film, yet the end result is in many ways a historic, loved, and appreciated film.

Star Wreck Studios now intends to build a new platform to help independent films get made through crowdsourcing (the original Star Wreck film was produced with over 300 people in the credits). Think of it as SourceForge for internet-based film projects. For smart entrepreneurs: Definitely a crowdsourcing business model that can be extended to other types of internet-based projects, like writing books. For business leaders: Rather than viewing this type of open source crowd projects as a threat for your business; look for opportunities, create your own platform, pick up interesting innovative ideas from outside your own organization, and develop them internally or externally. A globally spread crowd of people is likely to be more creative than only a couple of internal experts, or at least providing some interesting thoughts for the internal experts to work on.

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