The National Studio Project

1
We exist to obtain and manage high end film making  equipment for the purpose 
of promoting quality local film making  as well as to foster local cooperative film 
efforts and skill shares.  We seek to enhance, develop and promote free 
and open access to film making technology as well as all supporting services. 

2
We make local resources known via the creation and maintenance of local registries 
of (artists, musicians, actors, engineers, web developers) via our website. 
We enable film makers anywhere to collect, search and organize similar 
information local to them.

3
We provide computational resources for VFX rendering, movie marketing, 
movie site hosting, and assistance with other forms of digital distribution systems.

4
We advocate for the establishment of local cooperatives nationally such that 
we may coordinate our efforts for collective fund raising, awareness and sharing of
computational resources. (rendering hardware, web space, screening advocation etc)

Providing film-makers with the equipment and guidance they need to take their creativity to the max!

The Rise of Digital Cinema

Showing movies with film is expensive. Film wears out and film makers must
spend thousands of dollars to have their movies on film in order to be considered
for old fashioned theater viewing.
The tide is turning towards digital for a simple reason.
Saving money.

"As of January, 2009, there are more than 6,000 DLP-based Digital Cinema systems installed worldwide, of which 80% are located in North America" (4800 theaters and rising)

Theaters will have more flexibility to give audiences what they want to see. The trick becomes finding out what 'they want' to see. This is where Arin Crumley comes in.

Arin Crumley test runs a new distribution model. Rather than movie companies trying to 'guess' what audiences want to see Arin shows us that ticket sales follow demand with a content pull model. That is audiences define what content they want to have played and show up for it thus providing more predictable turn out.
Arin launches openindie:

"openindie, in the first instance, is a user generated film screening site with the aim of democratizing distribution. users can discover and bookmark films they’re interested in, request a screening in their area and put on a screening of any film on the site."

(openindie.com) Movie explanation openindie

Thus, theaters have cost incentives and the flexibility to show what's in demand. Eventually, film makers won't have to deal with the thousands-of-dollars film road block.

Affordable Big Screen Quality

For the first time in history a studio can have everything necessary for big screen quality shooting, editing and visual effects for under $80,000 dollars. While the number might seem large it contains everything from the high resolution digital cinema camera such as the The Red One Camera as well as sound and lighting equipment, editing and visual effects software.

For the first time in history $30,000 dollars in hardware alone can get you the
Movie Resolution and light Sensitivity necessary for the big screen.

The National Studio Project

Imagine Universal Pictures, MGM or Paramount.
Now imagine that the movie makers still owned the rights to their movies.
You're getting the idea for a non-profit movie production studio devised to make sure
big screen quality makes it to the big screen.

Cooperation, talent, Open Source Software and $80,000 dollars fills those digital theaters with the quality audiences have come to expect from big cinema.

NSP Notes
The Note section features a gradual growing collecting of documents and references
expressing the ideas this organization is founded on.

The Story So Far
Stay up to date on events as they happen.