First Full Length Film on YouTube

If any of the big movie producers had any sense, they would have launched a site for wanna be film makers to upload their feature films in a YouTube type format. It’s amazing how the people with both the industry experience and the money to launch these types of ventures keep missing the boat. I guess they’re content with their $300 Million.

Ok…….Hands up!! I have NOT seen the video….but that is exactly the point….I won’t want to see the video I am already prejudging and prejudiced against it BECAUSE it is on YOUTUBE………..

Its awful enough to have to sit through a one minute video of irrelevant, unfunny content, never mind an entire hour…..if this is supposed to be better than the usual fare they serve up on YouTube that means nothing!!

How poor is the competition that its up against.

And its not just YouTube……take Diggnation, a hit amongst the hip 18- 35 age group with the founder of Digg as co host on a show that is as funny and witty as a badly placed bet…….two guys with a laptop talking shxt………and everyone says - amazing!!! - Talk about “the emporors clothes”……..

Thanks for the kind words, Duncan! These are really cool folks that deserve support - they’re blazing new trails online, this YouTube arrangement being just one of many.

Best wishes to the Crunch crew!

I wonder if this type of thing will become more popular. It’s expensive to make something, like a movie, for free.

Hopefully we will see a spread of high quality low cost films. For example, Thr3e, which was recently in theaters was done on a $2 million dollar budget. If there was a good centralized location for these films and a decent method of monetization - we could expect more, high quality, low-cost films.

I hook this up in HD and it looks terrible. I hope this isn’t the future of TV?

Because my eyes hurt watching 71min of a tiny screen. 1 minute funnies are tolerable but not this

I just watched 12 minutes of the “movie”. After that I gave up. Hope you guys can take more than 12 minutes of it.

I got bored after 10 minutes and I fast forwarded to the end. The main guy cries on the phone. There’s a lot of swearing. Then they started talking to other. Concept is cute, but the film is boring.

I guess I didn’t get to the ending, I stumbled into the 20 minutes of filler and extras. So in actuality, this movie’s only 50 minutes or so. But hey, if not one ever watches it, we can all keep linking to it and writing blogs about how a 71 minute full feature movie was released on to youtube! That’s the magic of reviewing without reviewing.

That’s just too long. I’ve never watched any of my free (with subscription) online Netflix movies and I’m not watching this.

Is there a trailer?

One week, huh? What’s up with that?

Hate to be negative because I’m glad to see people experimenting but, once you take the personal relationships out of the above comments, there’s nothing compelling in the proposition that I watch this.

Actually, there are a pile of full length bollywood movies up on site, when you use advanced search, click on long, and you will find a ton of movies in full credit to credit length on the site.

This is terrible, terrible movie. Sad thing that it’s the pioneer of this “genre”. It’s probably one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Two skinny white kids that write instead of talk, and then hate eachother and talk, then she cuts his hair? What’s going on.

Seriously, please dont watch it. I want that hour of my life back.

There’s a reason that a movie would debut on youTube.

I watched about 60@ of the movie - I have PAID to see far worse and considering the budget these guys had to deal with and their experience… I think this is a pretty good first attempt by anybodies standards. Keep up the good work!

I stopped watching the movie because I had other things to do in life that had a higher priority for me.

Jon
ps: to those saying negative things about this attempt at a full length film… I challenge you to make something better if you think it’s so easy!

Way to go FEM! We recently blogged about how FEM are revolutionizing Indie Film Distribution here:
http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/05/175/

It will be interesting to see how successful FEM and others will be in distributing, attracting audiences, and making money w/out having to join the Hollywood marketing engine.

so what ??

This opened in December… what’s the news? A story about their marketing efforts before the film’s release would be very interesting but this is apparently a story about the upload limit on Youtube being bypassed by a group of influential indie filmmakers who made an inside connection to one person at Google who made it happen.

More importantly, what constitutes a feature and what constitutes a short? Why should online video sites care about a distinction that has it’s roots brick and mortar exhibition?

The difference has traditionally been defined by the distribution end of the film business. Nobody wants to pay $9 to see a short in a cinema. Most features are at least 90 minutes because this is what the audience expects. For Bollywood, the expectation is more like 4 hours.

Likewise, nobody wants to watch 71 consecutive minutes of one video in a web browser at youtube quality - or do they? Either way, there are some obvious hurdles to increasing the upload limit on youtube for all users: bandwidth and piracy. Even if Google solves those problems, the question remains whether or not the audience will care.

I’d be interested in seeing a graph that shows the bounce rates over time on such a long clip on youtube. There must be an optimal clip length that people will watch. My hypothesis is that it would actually be shorter than a “short” not longer.

All in all, I would definitely upload my feature length works to youtube just for reference.

Cheers,

What is the upload limit on youtube anyway? Did it go up?

You err. There are many full-length movies on YouTube. Search “public domain” and there you go.