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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 8:09 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Successors Detailed
I’m currently
writing the 2009
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Review (2nd Generation),
as well as finalizing specs for the future, so I decided to write this
post. This will give you an idea for the cool things that are coming!
Of course, I also need to write this for use as a reference for my review.
With the ongoing, and incredible, success of the Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival (which, by the way, is also
the best place to watch great indie films such as Spaventare;
simply run the names of Tampa indie films in search engines, and, if they
are playing on the online film festival, they will come out at the top
of the results, and on the online film festival (once again, predictions
that I made a couple of years ago come true, and are validated with proof;
simply click on this Spaventare
link, and see for yourself). Also, go to their source profiles on Youtube,
or wherever, and pull their stats. See where all of the views are coming
from? The proof is in the results! Spaventare had like 10 people
in the audience at the Gasparilla International Film Festival, and has
over EIGHT TIMES that amount of people watching it on
the online film festival- we even have GIFF beat!), a number of improved
online film festivals are in the works. Right now, we are running the
2nd generation online film festival, and are working hard on not just
the 3rd generation online film festival, but the 4th, and 5th generations
as well.
There is even more, too. I was working on an international online film
festival, but will, instead, be focusing all of those efforts on the present,
and future, incarnations of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. Understand
that the overall objective of Tampa Bay Film and our huge network of Tampa
Bay Film sites has changed in the past year, and the Tampa branding now
applies to the indie film industry as a whole. How is this? Simple. Our
objective is to help make Tampa indie film a leader in the indie film
industry, period. This justifies utilizing the Tampa branding for those
efforts.
Additionally, the online film festival has routinely received, and added,
indie film submissions from all over the world. Yes, we will emphasis
Tampa indie films when we can, but showing indie films from everywhere
else not only serves to pick up the slack from the low amount of Tampa
films being produced, but serves to inspire Tampa filmmakers; many of
the indie films playing on the online film festival, but made outside
of the Tampa indie film market, could be made in Tampa Bay!
What this means is that the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will become
the international online film festival which we will want, and need, as
well as continue to promote, and support, Tampa indie films.
So, a lot of work is currently going on with the future generations of
the online film festival. Operational details and specifications have
already been established, and the only things that need to be done are
the execution of these plans, as well as the establishment of support
infrastructure.
Here are the available details of the past, present, and future generations
of our online film festival.
1st
Generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (2007-2008)
Static HTML/ CSS / Tables web site utilizing external embedded video
files.
The online film festival began as a beta test with embedded files on the
Tampa Bay Film Myspace profile in late 2006. When the Tampa Bay Film Raptor
Class site launched on January 2007, the online film festival was built
into the Tampa Bay Film site. The 1st Generation online film festival
proved to be very successful, and defeated another online film festival
in 2007. It was crude, but effective.
2nd
Generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (2008-Present)
Static HTML/ CSS web site utilizing external embedded video files.
This improved on the original online film festival, and fixed the flaws
discovered on its initial shakedown. The 2nd Generation online film festival
was a completely new site, with new files and directories. The 2nd Generation
online film festival obtained its own domain name, and was launched in
late 2008 as a Raptor Class stand-alone web site, which interconnected
with the Tampa Bay Film site. It was then upgraded to a Raptor 3 Class
site, as was Tampa Bay Film. In 2009, the 2nd Generation online film festival
site was upgraded to a Super Raptor Class site, and interconnected with
the other seven Tampa Bay Film sites with a new right-side menu array.
The 2nd Generation online film festival is the current workhorse, and
it has been extremely successful, although the manual maintenance requirements
limit the number of available films to around 100 at any given time (the
more films, the more untenable maintenance becomes).
3rd
Generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (2011)
Dynamic PHP/ CSS web site utilizing external embedded video files.
The database-driven version of the online film festival will open the
door to user maintenance, and will allow a library of thousands of indie
films, in a wide range of categories. This will be the version which will
finally achieve, and then exceed, the original potential of the online
film festival. The 3rd Generation online film festival will still depend
upon embedded video files, however, although the flexible architecture
will allow maintenance to be quick, and tenable, again. The 3rd Generation
online film festival will be all-new, and will set the foundation for
succeeding generations. The main 2nd Generation online film festival directories
will be overwritten, and the static HTML files of the existing films will
be archived within the site (and then phased out with the 4th Generation
OFF).
The 3rd Generation online film festival will be built with the future
support of the Tampa Bay Film Tampa Film Community PHP message board and
membership sections in mind.
4th
Generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (2012)
Dynamic PHP/ CSS/ Flash web site utilizing internal video files and
custom Flash player.
The next upgrade to the database-driven 3rd Generation online film festival,
the 4th Generation online film festival will end the dependence upon externally
hosted embedded video files, and the ads that come with them. The 4th
Generation online film festival will host the film files, and play them
on a Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival custom branded Flash player.
All previous embedded indie film files from the 3rd and 2nd Generation
online film festivals will be phased out by 2013.
5th
Generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (2013/ 2014)
Dynamic PHP/ CSS/ Flash Virtual Film Festival web
site, with expanded interfaces, built upon the 4th Generation online film
festival foundation. TOP SECRET.
A revolutionary leap in online film festivals, many of the details of
the 5th Generation online film festival are classified. This project is
a tightly guarded secret, as this will be the most advanced online film
festival in the world.
The differences between the 5th Generation and earlier generations will
be much like day and night. The current 2nd Generation online film festival
would be primitive, and limited, in comparison.
Since all of the films accessed by the 5th Generation online film festival
would be pulled from a PHP database, an all-new base design is not out
of the question. It is likely that the base design itself would be much
more advanced than the designs of earlier generations. The primary VFF
interface will be visual, intuitive, and highly advanced.
The 5th Generation online film festival would be the standard for at least
five years.
A “Virtual Film Festival” built on the foundation of the online
film festival established by 4th Generation standards, this online film
festival would bridge the gulf between the shortcomings of an online film
festival, and the advantages of a film festival event. It will be designed
to directly compete with traditional film festivals in every way, as well
as have advantages over every aspect of film festival events.
The 5th Generation online film festival would have full integration with
all Tampa Bay Film properties.
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