CineNation Episode 8:
SXSW and Music Streaming
SXSW
Aaron Reed
Ice-Bound
Mark Duplass talk
Going out and doing it
Most film school people aren’t competing with other film school people
Tangerine - shot entirely on iPhone
SXSW Interactive:
Gimmicky
is this the future?
-Buzzfeed experiments with couples trying to defuse a bomb:
Music Streaming
Spotify
100-200x streams vs sales
Long tail
Taylor Swift is opposed to the free tier of Spotify
Lowers the expectations for the cost of music
David Bazan
Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal
$20/month
high quality audio
Taylor Swift is streaming on it
CNN- Taylor Swift goes to Jay-Z’s service:
If you don’t appear on spotify you risk not being heard
When you think you have a hit, you want everyone to be able to hear the hit
Tying streaming music back into Film
Students are not buying films
Why put your indie movie on a streaming service?
Fans, is film creating fans like music does?