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Forums - Bricks in Motion » General Film Discussion » Is it worth Selling DVDs of your lego animations?
note: I really hope i've put this in the right forum topic...
I would like to know which of you would sell DVDs of your animations if time and money wasn't an issue
I would sell DVDs of my animation for money issues. Anyway, since you have made a long feature film, it might be a good idea.
I would buy a brickfilming DVD if the brickfilm on it were good and there were special features like commentaries.
Ditto
I agree!!!
It'd be worth it if you had atleast a feature length brickfilm, or a few long brickfilms and special features/extras.
what about legal issues, obviously assuming there's no copyrighted music or anything - but the LEGO products in the films - aren't they copyrighted?
It would take a lot to make me buy a DVD with just one brickfilm on it. I have debated the Nightly News at Nine DVD, but even that couldn't part me with my cash. I would buy a DVD with all the contest entries to an official BiM contest, assuming there was enough quality content, like the FIG DVD.
Once our animation improves we could donate some films. But as mobile said, the LEGO itself is copyrighted, we would have to acknowledge them having the rights.
Yeah, also Juggernaut, if you consider selling a DVD, I'd recommend doing cast interviews, and how you made the film.
.what about legal issues, obviously assuming there's no copyrighted music or anything - but the LEGO products in the films - aren't they copyrighted?
I guess, but if you're not using material or music owned by someone else then I don't really see any problem, you don't ask sony if you can use they're cameras to make movies...(bad comparison, but do you see my point?)
If you have alot of short films, you could put them all in one DVD and have a bonus episode or two never released on the internet before. This is of course a good idea if you have alot of viewers that are willing to pay money just to see those episodes.
or a really long brickfilm with commentaries, behind the scenes, maybe deleted scenes, funny line-recording mess-ups, and an extra bonus episode that has nothing to do with the actual film but is funny and helps with advertising the DVD.
Wow that was a long sentence.... My English teacher would murder me
"NO MORE RUNONS" said the english teacher who spanked all the children when they had written really long sentences in an essay that had been submitted for a grammer lesson and they had spend alot of time on it and there were many ands and ums and uhs and spelling errors and emoticons and texting language referenses like lol and idk and ttly and stuff like that that made the teacher go nuclear on them....
Wasn't it the Nadine and Charlie contests that required all visible LEGO logos on pegs and stuff to be blurred out? You might do that if you wanted to be extra cautious.
I highly doubt you'd get busted anyway though. I think Blunty sold a DVD of his stuff at one point.
You would have to be very good to get people to buy your DVD's. And although there is only a small chance you will get busted by the big-bad legal guys, its not worth the risk. We're talking about lawsuits here.....
Since most of my movies pretty much rely on copyrighted concepts, images and music, I dont think you will be seeing a DVD of my content any time soon (unless I become super rich and buy all the rights). I'm trying to change this - my upcoming DAD entry has an original score made by a good friend of mine, plus my Septemberfest entry will probably feature some of BertL's/Night Owls/Incomputech's music since I dont have enough time to get an original score made. I apologise in advance and will try and credit anyone who's music I steal...
-MRB
I think it was more practical in the old BF.com days when YouTube wasn't available as an easy way to see films in high quality, and the legal ramifications of this are also something of a concern. It's a hard sell when the quality on a DVD is likely to be inferior to what you can get for free on YouTube. Even with some directors' commentaries, etc. I'm skeptical that enough people would buy a DVD here to make it worth the upfront expenses.
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