Jason Scott's Weblog
The Next Documentary is actually three documentaries, and one of those documentaries is six documentaries. Now, you would think with my job at the Internet Archive and all my other projects and endeavors, I wouldn’t be into making another documentary. You especially would not expect me to be making three at the same time. Well, […]
So the initial experiment with Chuck Benton turns out to have been pretty successful – the resulting video is clear, clean, well-mic’d, and provides you pretty much all the relevant statements on the subject of GET LAMP-related ideas. Someone mentioned a cut-off here and there, and unfortunately it’s been too many years to know why […]
During the shooting of the GET LAMP documentary, I generated what appears to be my stylistic mass of footage – over 120 hours of people talking about text adventures, early home computer software industry, inter-company politics, and a range of things about writing interactively. It was a huge range of subjects and of course only […]
OUT OF NOWHERE comes a viewing. Well, OK, they scheduled this a while ago but for some reason I don’t tend to announce these showings on this weblog. But, why not. I am in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Bay Interactive Fiction Users’ Group is having a showing of GET LAMP, with me attending […]
I’m stacking documentary-related post after doc-related post, mostly to get these all out of my head for a little while. I wanted to address some documentaries I’m not doing, along with examples of them being done, or whether I think they should be done at all. While being interviewed by Off The Hook during the months […]
This could all be misinterpreted, so let’s just make sure all the positives are on the top, where most people stop reading. The BBS Documentary sold very well. Enough that I ran out of copies. But GET LAMP has sold better. Way better. Way, way better. How much better? I’m down to less than 25 […]
This is not related to my announcement that I will announce another couple films. Having finished two major projects in documentary, especially technical documentary, means I hear an awful lot about other productions of a similar nature. Most are tiny one or two-person projects, involving one driven individual and their buddy. Sometimes it’s more involved […]
Late last year I realized a very awesome problem. It turned out that the BBS Documentary, my little flick from 2005, was in real danger of running out of copies. Way back when, I ended up having to decide how many copies were going to be printed up, I chose the number of 4,500, figuring […]
In 2005, when it was time to do all the DVD duplication for my new movie “BBS: The Documentary”, I had to choose how many copies were going to be in the initial run. Since I figured this was the greatest movie ever, and would sell like hotcakes, I chose a run of 4,500. 1,200 […]
OK, let’s begin by establishing some things. Currently, by the standards of independent (actually independent) filmmaking, I’m fucking Steven Spielberg. I’ve made two films, BBS and GET LAMP, which are not even films – one is a box-set miniseries and the other is actually three documentaries combined with a coin. They’re films++, a reflection of […]