FilmWatcher.com: Download Shorts Online

By Unknown June 12, 2002 9:57 PM

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The main reason for the popularity is the falling prices of digital equipment and the increased power of computers. Both high and low-end 3D modeling and animation software and digital cameras have put film making within the financial grasp of the public.

Just as starting musicians sought alternatives to breaking into their business, and certain established artists disaffected from bloated recording companies with the Napster phenomenon, the Indies have brought about a new sort of net experience - the Virtual Theatre.

Other contributors to the cinema's presence on the web include enthusiastic amateur movie makers, animators and film-school students who, through whose art, are simply trying to make themselves heard. Like certain music-sharing services, most of the works presented are if not freely-downloadable, free to view online.

Computer-Generated ("C.G.") animation also plays a key role, as the same machines which can bring these movies into your home via the internet can,through digital special effects, be used to enhance and now even more easily create that very medium. What follows (again - like those music-sharing services) is a somewhat less-than-random surf through some currently available on-line short movies, or "shorts."

A high or low "click" rate can mean the difference between The Blair Witch (which started out as a web site) and a film that we'll never hear about. Starting a web site is the first step in the right direction. The problem is exposure - and a single html page coded by your brother's friend just won't do.

FilmWatcher's mission is to serve the creators of independent entertainment (creators and fans), to provide a world-wide exhibition platform to showcase their material to a potential audience of millions. And unlike other short film sites that only give online access FilmWatcher specifically provides links to downloadable shorts! ... FilmWatcher's mission is also to create a community for the film makers (& the film consumers) and to keep current on industry news.

FilmWatcher.com ? Team
Noam Sher | Manny Cort

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 13, 2002 3:03 PM

No thanks guys.  I already loaded my shorts once this week.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 16, 2002 3:03 PM

Let it all go fellow shemparinos.  I was upset too when this site took a dive into the toilet.  Let it die.

Go to CHUD.com or AICN.com.  At least they're up-to-date and they talk about MOVIES there.

f*ck soccer, clones, argentina, moose's belly aching and skullflamer's racist lame "humour"!

RIP Dtheatre!  It will be missed.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 17, 2002 3:54 AM

What a sad person! Speak for youself.

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Posted by Skullfire (hulacete@ubbi.com) on June 17, 2002 7:27 AM

The same message in all the threads: that shows your uni-directional thinking, that you have only one brain cell, and isn't working.
Dtheatre will be reborn before you, and you won't be missed.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 17, 2002 8:21 AM

Well that guy got the "Dork of the year" prize.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 17, 2002 8:11 PM

blah, blah, blah. idiot.  So you know (because we have to spell things out for you) saying "Dtheatre will be reborn" means you agree that it is dead too.  Thanks for your support fairweather friend.

You back real w(h)inners moose.  Guess noone likes you.

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Posted by Skullfire (hulacete@ubbi.com) on June 19, 2002 4:33 PM

Yes, I do support you. I'm encouraging you to be more stupid every day, task I'm acomplishing.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 20, 2002 10:33 AM

It's the only thing argentinians are good for as far as you've shown us.  

Supporting the stupid by being the foundation of all that IS stupid.

Bravo for you, skullflamner!  You and your countrymen are doing a bang up job.

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Posted by Skullfire (hulacete@ubbi.com) on June 20, 2002 5:30 PM

Your country is the #1 waste producer in the world, and you've shown yourself as an example of it.