"Mic Control starts today, unless you wanna learn the hard way to get 'scared way.' This is not a game...We are not players, we do not play." - Soul Postion

 

Mic Control - Soul Position

 As the inaugural post on this blog there is a lot of pent up verbage dying to spew on to the screen, but part of starting and maintaining a blog is discipline and to start this one off on the right foot I am going to exercise a little and keep it short and sweet.

People in the film community are talking.  Distributors, producers, the media, directors, writers, ex-studio execs turned producers.  A lot of this talk is charged with fear and uses language like "crumbling indie distribution model" while others are using this opportunity more as a call to action to the independent film community to wake up and start innovating again. 
 This conversation has taken place in close proximity to independent film as witnessed from the battle still being waged on the music frontier.  This struggle has been one that artists have experienced since the first caveman discovered he could earn his keep by chronicling his fellow troglodytes heroic hunting expeditions through pictograms scratched on the fire lit wall of a cave sheltering his tribe from the nasty ice age going down outside.

For the ideahed this blog is a way to participate in the collective conversation on how the independent film industry is changing and how one can sustain themselves through their entreproducerorial endeavors in this evolutionary and most exciting of times.

The purpose of this blog is to spotlight and share interesting, inspiring, and innovative goings-on, strategies, tactics and nuggets of truth in and around the spaces of motion picture marketing, digital distribution, DIY strategy, social media, emerging technology, open source ideology, and finding new ways to rock the mic and get paid for it.  

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