Open Source Cinema UK - 2015 onwards

Statement for continuing throughout 2015 with Open Source software and hardware solutions for Film Production

Open Source Cinema UK will be taking an open and transparent approach to Digital Film Production and Services. Our  intention is to allow growth and freedom and provide the tools to achieve the desired results through access to a network of products providing both hardware and software solutions with open information and to encourage like minded collaborators and collaborations.

By engaging with the open source community during 2015 we hope to :

• Clearly show people what Open Source can actually mean and achieve, and how it works, in relation to Film Production, workflows for Digital Camera Technology, network/server support and onto Delivery/Distribution.
• Establishing credibility and maturity of new products and solutions through proven use for those services and  recognition for the people and projects who have in fact open sourced their work, allowing access and inviting that collaboration.
• Giving people the freedom to study, understand, modify and sell their products/ideas or derivatives there of in a forum of consolidated ideas and principles for Open Source.
• Introduce new areas of operating and working that can allow for further savings and to take a new approach to development and financing a Film Project.

The ethos and ecology behind this is :

• To establish Open Source Digital Film Production and services including initial image capture, dailies deliverables, VFX and Post/DI through to Distribution and DCP Mastering, all under an Open Source and freedom of information ethos.
• To emphasise our inspiration is taken from Open Source and what that approach represents and entails.
• Our intention to develop a workflow of Open Source tools for Film Production.
• To include the elements which we wish to incorporate which can categorically be described as Open Source.

There are many ways we will establish the positive approaches we wish to be taking, which includes describing the collaborative elements of our service, the transparency, the customisation and so forth.

These elements are very familiar from the world of Open Source and we wish to introduce these elements to a new and growing audience for Film Production in all its various requirements.