Author Topic: Microstock is Due for a Documentary Film (Read 14339 times)

ObviousTroll · « **on:** August 17, 2015, 19:50 »

When is someone going to do a documentary film on Microstock? A simple fund-raiser on kickstarter, some interviews with industry leaders, some case studies and fun stories... I think it would be great. It might even make netflix.

Any video / film people up for the challenge?

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2015, 09:08 »

I can't imagine watching 90 minutes of interviews of stock shooters with their little sales graphs and favourite lenses.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2015, 15:29 »

actually better still, a weekly show about a shady millionaire who uses his microstock agency to launder money. a handful of prior unknown "photographers" suddenly became top sellers
with their snapshots , , short film, etc..created with mobile phones .
while the rest of their 6 million a month uploads almost never see payout.

any suggestion for the main protagonistas??? i vote for johnny depp as he was amazing in
Blow. Naomi Watts would also be great choice as the top selling lady.

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2015, 16:18 »

Perry · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2015, 16:20 »

How about

"Greed - The Rise and Fall of iStockphoto"

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2015, 16:24 »

@etudiante_rapide is correct. We are looking at a "docudrama" for the sake of holding audience attention.

So we need a cast of actors to represent micro's biggest players. We also need to establish the story line.

Mantis · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2015, 20:08 »

How about a documentary on secrets and lies?

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #7 on:** August 18, 2015, 20:49 »

Reality TV where stock photographers are forced to live on their stock only income.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2015, 20:56 »

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 18, 2015, 16:24

@etudiante_rapide is correct. We are looking at a "docudrama" for the sake of holding audience attention.

So we need a cast of actors to represent micro's biggest players. We also need to establish the story line.

I want Mark Wahlberg to play me. Or Channing Tatum.

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #9 on:** August 18, 2015, 21:08 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 18, 2015, 20:56

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 18, 2015, 16:24
@etudiante_rapide is correct. We are looking at a "docudrama" for the sake of holding audience attention.

So we need a cast of actors to represent micro's biggest players. We also need to establish the story line.

I want Mark Wahlberg to play me. Or Channing Tatum.

We've already cast John C Reilly for you: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #10 on:** August 18, 2015, 21:30 »

The problem with famous people playing microstocker-characters is that the famous people would not make any money and Getty would still be in the credits as usual.

Pixart · « **Reply #11 on:** August 18, 2015, 22:17 »

I'm sure Yuri Arcurs would be thrilled to play himself.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #12 on:** August 19, 2015, 05:45 »

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 18, 2015, 21:08

We've already cast John C Reilly for you: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/

Perfect. I'm sort of a Mr. Wreck-it-Ralph Cellophane anyways.

Difydave · « **Reply #13 on:** August 19, 2015, 07:38 »

How about a documentary about microstock showing how it's NOT a way to make easy money?

gcrook · « **Reply #14 on:** August 19, 2015, 08:52 »

How about WE try to document what we know as much as we can wherever we can, without waiting for someone else to do it for us so we can sit back and relax in our couch saying to ourselfes stuff like "how true" and "that was spot on" and other pretentious "guilt washing" stuff?

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #15 on:** August 19, 2015, 09:31 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 18, 2015, 20:56

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 18, 2015, 16:24
@etudiante_rapide is correct. We are looking at a "docudrama" for the sake of holding audience attention.

So we need a cast of actors to represent micro's biggest players. We also need to establish the story line.

I want Mark Wahlberg to play me. Or Channing Tatum.

good of you to sound in , Locke. the confrontation between you and istock would alone
topple Sex in the city or MadMen. oh yes, I definitely would like to see January Jones

play something in this microstock series, for sure.

also, producer - Oliver Stone
Tyrant shareholder can be played by Anthony Hopkins, with a repeat performance of Nixon...
"read my lips... ~~i am not a crook~~ No increase for contributors earning ever again !!!
and Danny DeVito as atilla

Rinderart · « **Reply #16 on:** August 19, 2015, 13:09 »

Or wolf on wall street.

tickstock · « **Reply #17 on:** August 19, 2015, 13:12 »

Didn't Yuri already do this?

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #18 on:** August 19, 2015, 15:46 »

So we've gone from "a documentary on microstock" to "a docudrama" to what appears to be a suspense movie that is a metaphor on microstock history.

Its getting interesting at least. I think by now we are forced to have it directed by Quentin Tarantino in the style of Inglorious Bastrds.

It might be good also to reinvent microstock's history, embelish it, a bit, and glamorize it to such an extent that its not recognizable as the real thing. (Actually, that is already what it is, isn't it?)

Pixart · « **Reply #19 on:** August 19, 2015, 16:02 »

An inside story on the rise and fall of Istock would be quite captivating (to us at least). It was such a spectacular spoil of power. A startup with a quarter billion annual sales (I'm sure I'm off by a few million... but close enough), ruined by greed, bad decisions, alienating the staunch supporters who got them there, and the dramatic fall from grace.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #20 on:** August 19, 2015, 16:15 »

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 19, 2015, 15:46

So we've gone from "a documentary on microstock" to "a docudrama" to what appears to be a suspense movie that is a metaphor on microstock history.

Its getting interesting at least. I think by now we are forced to have it directed by Quentin Tarantino in the style of Inglorious Bastrds.

It might be good also to reinvent microstock's history, embelish it, a bit, and glamorize it to such an extent that its not recognizable as the real thing. (Actually, that is already what it is, isn't it?)

wa yes, how could i forget tarantino? also, we won't need to embellish or de-glamorize it as you say, it is already as dirty as it is with istock past and ss present.
only the money laundering part is fictitional, but then again, we really don't even know this

at first i was thinking of a "gotti" film-style, but you win, definitely I *insult removed* Tarantino in your face movie would be the only correct way to show the true face of microstock today.

tickstock · « **Reply #21 on:** August 19, 2015, 17:13 »

Quote from: Pixart on August 19, 2015, 16:02

An inside story on the rise and fall of Istock would be quite captivating (to us at least). It was such a spectacular spoil of power. A startup with a quarter billion annual sales (I'm sure I'm off by a few million... but close enough), ruined by greed, bad decisions, alienating the staunch supporters who got them there, and the dramatic fall from grace.

What do you guess their revenue is projected for now?

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #22 on:** August 19, 2015, 17:47 »

Screenplay :

A desperate man with great teeth is alone in a dark room. We hear the sound of memory cards being slid in and out of readers. A ray of light breaks through a dirty window. ...

Pixart · « **Reply #23 on:** August 19, 2015, 18:43 »

WOMAN (OS): Brucey, are you up? Come upstairs and have breakfast with daddy before you waste the whole day on that computer.

Hongover · « **Reply #24 on:** August 19, 2015, 22:05 »

Not completely related, but Indie Game: The Movie came to mind when I read the title of the thread.

gcrook · « **Reply #25 on:** August 19, 2015, 22:16 »

Quote from: gcrook on August 19, 2015, 08:52

How about WE try to document what we know as much as we can wherever we can, without waiting for someone else to do it for us so we can sit back and relax in our couch saying to ourselfes stuff like "how true" and "that was spot on" and other pretentious "guilt washing" stuff?

Ok maybe that comment was completely off for this thread.

Id like to see not a documentary but a comedy directed by Mike Judge starring Will Ferrell (looking as close to Ron Burgundy as possible) titled "Stoked.A man's photographic journey to make (almost) nothing out of something" .
That i would watch.

PixelBytes · « **Reply #26 on:** August 20, 2015, 13:35 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 18, 2015, 20:56

Quote from: ObviousTroll on August 18, 2015, 16:24
@etudiante_rapide is correct. We are looking at a "docudrama" for the sake of holding audience attention.

So we need a cast of actors to represent micro's biggest players. We also need to establish the story line.

I want Mark Wahlberg to play me. Or Channing Tatum.

Justin Bieber could land his breakout role of playing Yuri Arcurs.

Maybe Peter Dinklage as Jonathan Klein. He can do a real good version of a self important pirck.

ObviousTroll · « **Reply #27 on:** August 20, 2015, 17:00 »

I think a lot of people succeeded too young in micro.

When the micro trend has passed as we have to show for it is empty mansions being repossessed, pet monkeys with strange names, a messed up worldview / self-identity, the list goes on.

One moment your enjoying your first entry into fame, the next moment your being escorted out of a Broadway theater drunk and with your sanity in question. Its a hard life.

Thankfully there is microstockgroup to relive the glory days

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