This is a review for Myspace Film. The section of the sprawling Myspace beast that attempts to repeat for film makers the success of it’s support for bands.

I should at this stage point out that I am not a fan of Myspace. I find it to be messy and very cliched. I cannot however deny it’s success or the potential it has for helping out new film makers. After all it has something in the order of 60 million accounts. That’s potentially a lot of people to talk to.

So onto the new film section.

It’s typical Myspace. Same layout. Same ideas.

So a bad review?

Well no. The film management section is brief and allows you to easily build up a profile of a movie you’ve made. Actually despite my earlier comments regarding myspace being a mess this seems to be well thought out. Allowing film makers to describe their role, their film and to advertise screenings. I ran into a technical hitch loading up a preproduction film. Every attempt was thwarted by an unforeseen technical error. After giving this a go over two days I can only report that there are problems in the system. However since other film makers have managed to load film details I can only assume this is either some sort of temporary aberration or a reaction to my non-windows PC.

So I went on to take a look at Myspace film from a fan point of view. At this point it’s obvious that everything that made Myspace the networking tool of choice for new bands is here for film makers. Given the success of Myspace with music and the current explosion in film making going on that has been generated by cheap digital cameras and editing suites I can only assume that this will grow into a vibrant area. In fact the films listed at the moment look really interesting.

My verdict. I need to know why I’ve hit some technical problems loading a film, which was of course - Consumed. If that is nothing more than a temporary glitch then the verdict is a good one. Whilst I’m still not that comfortable with Myspace - the fact remains that this is a valuable outlet and marketing tool for new film makers. My suspicion is that very soon we will be seeing mainstream news articles about some amateur film makers making it big through Myspace. The question I have is who will it be?

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