http://philcooke.com/movie_facts/ Change Revolution Tue, 22 May 2012 02:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://philcooke.com/movie_facts/#comment-10240 God at play Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:40:17 +0000 A clear method for innovation in creative industries is the shotgun approach of a myriad of prototypes, followed by a stage-gate process of pruning the work that isn't good enough.It seems like there are fewer films being made, but is that actually true?  I'd like to think it is for the sake of my cynicism of those major studios, but I have a feeling that the stats are misleading.  I would guess that in fact even <strong><em>more</em></strong> films are being produced today (or at least pre-produced), it's just that most of them never get to the point of being released.Instead, through the stage-gate process, the films that don't make the cut are "pruned," thereby saving the money studios would have spent on them for other things, like the better films.  And if you count short films as part of that shotgun approach, there are thousands upon thousands made.  There's also straight-to-DVD type of films to consider, are those counted in the stats as well?  Maybe not.To play devil's advocate, though, you could argue that there might be some films that seem bad to begin with, but actually would turn out well if you just powered through it to completion.And it's not to say I think those studios are doing a good job picking which to prune - I think they're doing a bad job - but I'm guessing they're following this process. A clear method for innovation in creative industries is the shotgun approach of a myriad of prototypes, followed by a stage-gate process of pruning the work that isn’t good enough.It seems like there are fewer films being made, but is that actually true?  I’d like to think it is for the sake of my cynicism of those major studios, but I have a feeling that the stats are misleading.  I would guess that in fact even more films are being produced today (or at least pre-produced), it’s just that most of them never get to the point of being released.Instead, through the stage-gate process, the films that don’t make the cut are “pruned,” thereby saving the money studios would have spent on them for other things, like the better films.  And if you count short films as part of that shotgun approach, there are thousands upon thousands made.  There’s also straight-to-DVD type of films to consider, are those counted in the stats as well?  Maybe not.To play devil’s advocate, though, you could argue that there might be some films that seem bad to begin with, but actually would turn out well if you just powered through it to completion.And it’s not to say I think those studios are doing a good job picking which to prune – I think they’re doing a bad job – but I’m guessing they’re following this process.

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