[Imc-birmingham] Cinema proposal

[phunkee]

Liam wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>An idea has occurred to me! Having recently done a screening @ the mr
>elephant gig and been involved with drop beats in the past, I have found
>putting together a nights (or more) worth of films can be quite a job. Discs
>are often with different people or missing and we don't have a current list
>of everything we've got. Phunkee did a list of our films a while ago @
>http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcBirminghamFilms  but it is very
>outdated now. 
>
>                My Proposal is we try and get an external hard drive and put
>all our films and DVD's in one place. You can buy 500 gb models now for
>around £80 and i think (??) all our films included ripped dvd's would fit on
>that one drive.
>
> 
>
>The advantages as I see it: 
>
>·         It would be easy to create a playlist to just play through at an
>event
>
>·         Films could be organised into folders based on subject etc - i.e.
>bring up all our films on climate change easily.
>
>·         We could put in text files with descriptions of films for those
>that haven't seen them.
>
>·         We could automatically generate a list of our films and put it on
>the wiki every so often.
>
>·         All the software, codecs etc, needed could be put on there too.
>
>·         Space permitting we could use it to store any raw footage we've
>recorded too in case we want use it again in the future.
>
> 
>
>We could also have a go at getting a laptop off of freecycle, coupled with
>the hard drive, anyone of us could then easily do a screening.
>
>It would be a lot of work sorting the films at first but would be easy to
>add them from then on.
>
> 
>
>What do people think?   Good idea? Bad idea? Our cinema stuff seems to be
>the most active part of brum Imc so maybe its worth investing in?
>
> 
>
>I don't know if we have any money at the moment, I don't mind chipping some
>in. Maybe we could do a fundraiser?
>
> 
>
>Cheers, Liam
>  
>
Hey sounds like a good idea. Wot Liam says - it's really frustrating 
screening stuff when you need to carry lots of media around.

Couple of questions:

Would there be any compatibility issues between different operating systems?
Should we endeavour to keep it open source?

We don't have any money at the moment, so we need to do a fundraiser.

Anyone interested in getting the ball rolling for a big fundraiser?

phunkee