The 90 Second Film Challenge
Ben Green prefaced this project with a quote from “Mission Impossible”, but Bristol Wireless and Fluffy Logic have succeeded in the Challenge, making a succinct and informative promotional ‘infotisement’ on a minimal budget and lots of hard work. We’re really pleased with the result.
The movie is a speedy tour of our network, with interviews along the way. Entirely Free (Libre) Open Source software in its creation. The main video editing was done with cinelerra from http://cvs.cinelerra.org/
We’ve released the film under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives Licence. Please contact us for other licensing arrangements. There are two ways to download the video:
Bittorrent
There is a BitTorrent of it available: Bristol_Wireless_90_Second_Film.torrent
It is 23MB and is a ‘.avi’ file (using Xvid and MP3) at DV resolution (720×576) and very good quality. You can download bittorrent from http://www.bittorrent.com/ and have a look at the progress of the torrent at http://strummer.bristolwireless.net:7171/.
Http
There is a normal http download available: bw_90_sec_challenge.mp4
It is 4MB and is a ‘.mp4’ file (using MPEG4 and AAC), low resolution (320×240) and low quality but still watchable. You are free to distribute this version too, but only if you make clear to person receiving it the license it is distributed under. You must pass on at least the link to the license code which is at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ and the say that the work is to be Attributed to Bristol Wireless Community Co-operative Ltd.
Playing It
If you have trouble playing the either file, you might want to try VLC from http://www.videolan.org/
Can it be a bit more clear that the bittorrent file is much much better quality. I was really hoping that we could distribute on bittorrent, but there hasn’t been one more download on the torrent since this page went up, probably as everyone is getting the small bad quality file.
You can check the progress of the torrent at:
http://strummer.bristolwireless.net:7171/
More to be torrents added soon.
Just noticed another thing, that the the torrent file contains a license, which does not appear anywhere on this site. It’s bad if we distribute a file with no license attached, and doesn’t help people understand creative commons. A link to the license should be added, or the link to the mp4 file removed. It’s is not legal to pass this film on without a link to the license (at the very least).
Until that happens, the license document from the torrent is as below:
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THE BRISTOL WIRELESS 90 SECOND FILM
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This film was completed using open source software.
No proprietary software was used. The work was by
Ell Southern, Ben Green and the rest of Bristol
Wireless. It was the first time any of us had used
Cinelerra. It was captured, edited and exported on
Debian GNU/Linux.
A brief episode with the superb Windows program
VirtualDub created this compressed copy. The Unix
program Transcode was needed to clean up the sound.
We would have used transcode entirely, but it was
crashing for DV input that day.
The quality of this compressed piece also owes a
lot to Donald Graft’s de-interlacing filter
(neuron2.net) and those who helped create it.
Without it there would have been blend
de-interlacing, which would make it cloudy. Now
it’s clear as a bell.
https://www.bristolwireless.net/
The work is to be Attributed to:
Bristol Wireless Community Co-operative Ltd.
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LICENSE
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This Work is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 License
You are free:
* to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
* to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
* Attribution. You must attribute the work
in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
* No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform,
or build upon this work.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear
to others the license terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get
permission from the copyright holder. For this summary
and the full legal code visit respectively:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/legalcode
Hey guys, why no deriv’s? Could we also license it under /by/ or /by-sa/, or even /by-nc-sa/?
For a good introduction to open source licensing
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/talks/2005-12-06-oxford/2005-12-06-isis.pdf
Why no Derivs? No reason really. Since we are an organisation that can be easily contacted, I went with a license that everyone who was present could agree on. We could change it now, but can’t really add NC, as we have already released it for commercial use. I would quite like to use the Share Alike, but want for feedback on this.