R3 Reading 

Crowdsourcing

   Crowdsourcing is a concept that encompasses many practices and can be done in a multitude of fields. Its major fundamental principal is outsourcing the material to a collaborative movement, with an objective towards a creative and radical goal. The activity and the final product becomes a co-creation of the innovation of the collective. 

   It will lead to a totally new reconstruction of the initial filmic piece of art, i.e. a re-conceptualization of the narrative by way of image manipulation. It is true that certain features, characteristics and elements will likely remain static. Those that can be tampered or can be directly manipulated by the participants of crowdsourcing, should be using and taking into account such devices as the mise-en-scene, as well as the tone, as in color, rhythm and how it is finally edited to create a distinctively whole new piece of art; one that can represent both the individual participant as well as the collective.

   It will seem that some rules and principles would need to be established. The standards set should still keep the parameters wide enough open as not to hamper neither innovation nor hinder creativity; their only purpose is to essentially help establish some type or fashion of cohesion. The idea is to re-contextualize the images from the larger ideas of the collective while still creating some type of collective uniformity that can be understood and appreciated by both the viewers and by its contributors.

   The exercise should be a fascinating. It should also be a great learning experience, for example it should be a great individual lesson on breaking away from individual dogmatism, it can also help towards treating writer's or creator’s block and on the other hand it’s a lesson about working together.