Wednesday, May 12, 2010
A fresh angle for a new sci-fi movie?
instead of the usual "dominate or die" direction of thinking, that is.
It would be interesting to see a world without any power structures, controlling institutions or religions. Utopia? Not necessarily. If you combine a climate catastrophe, a new electromagnetic radiation from cosmos that changes human DNA and some help from friendly aliens - we'd be there sooner rather than later.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Idea: MOVIES PRODUCT PLACEMENT 3.0
Why not make product placement marketing in movies also interactive and open-source?
Imagine a movie website that offers premium movies for free online viewing in exchange for user created content that promotes a certain brand and placed in the movie as a bubble-thought or a bubble-speech.
Some censorship rules might apply to prevent abuse and to encourage "bubbles" that are most creative, original and funny
ALternatively, bubbles could be set as a default canvas for Google AdWords, etc. :
Bubbls are interactive layers on top of the movie that function as mini webs and are capable of streaming rich multimedia.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Idea: New 2012 scenario, perhaps?
Personally, I would be more interested to see a different interpretation of the event. For example:
Why not to explore a different scenario with the base idea that on December 21, 2012 all people of the earth suddenly become telepathic? What would be the consequences of this global phenomena? And would it change the world for better or worse? And how many of us would survive the sudden change?
I have spent a fair amount of time researching the subject of 2012 and to me it's more about the paradigm change in our human consciousness, and less about earthquakes, tsunamis or falling fireballs. Booo hisss!
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Idea: How to fight video piracy.
Question: How would you deal with pirates selling illegal copies of your original product?
Answer: I would become a kind of pirate too! I would start chipping off a big chunk from their (pirates) profits by starting to sell my own “original fakes” and right on their own turf… aiming to take customers away from them. I would give people an option to buy cheaper versions of my original products (with worse quality, of course).
For example, lets take the famous Kaosan Road in Bangkok where backpackers for 150 baht can buy a copy of any latest movie or software program. It is a very strategically important spot, thousands of tourists roaming in hordes there 24/7! So I would open a small shop there with a big sign:
BUY ORIGINAL FAKE MOVIES HERE! LEGALLY!
And the street vendors selling “not original fakes” (not endorsed by the legal owner) can do nothing, for they have no legal leverage to complain.
The “original fakes” would cost half the established pirate price (i.e. 50 instead of 150 baht) and some popular items I would be giving out for free!
Here's an example:
Thus we'd gain:
1. 50 baht for each copy which otherwise would go to pirates (a million copies sold a year!).
2. economic weakening of illegal piracy marketiers.
3. make a lot of people happy
(Current market price for a fake copy movie is set to 3€ (150 baht) since a few years now. Competition will be forced to match their prices to be able to stay afloat. When this happens, we start offering ALL our products for free. This will eventually eliminate the pirate competition.)
p.s. why not to set up a special counter-piracy enterprise agency sponsored by all major movie studios? With outlets in all major tourist nests in South East Asia and
why not even sell a bulk of our legal fakes for pennies to local street vendors so that they would flood the fake market and undermine competitors?
Eventually fakes become almost worthless!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Idea: Crowdsourced movie trailers
We can also share our custom made “movie trailers” with friends on Facebook, etc using a special notification widget.
And we can upload our own (off site created) movie clips as well (guideline: only footage from one same film per one clip to be used!)
Note: Users can only proceed to watching the next movie online (for free!) when they published their “personal trailer” for the previously watched movie!