Filmgrid giving freedom to digital art

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The film industry have change over the years so also are the viewers. The viewers are not impressed by the investment spend on production or marketing of films, competition for standard theatres and fight against piracy. With the evolvement of smart phones, computers, the viewers are solely after the content of the movies not through the media passing the content to them.

Filmgrid aims to create transparency between viewers on the filmgrid platform and also promote media art on the platform. It aims to eliminate middlemen from the network chain to deliver the best service to its clients and makes the creation of good movies a possibility through this process. This process will ensure that producers receive higher payment immediately for their service unlike the use of intermediaries which hardly compensate digital media producers for the service render.

The filmgrid policies includes;

Filmgrid support these theories firmly:

★That all movies are also art masterpiece

★A movie is not bound to any form of time restriction for uploading

★The storyline of every movie is stage differently

★The best actors are selected for roleplays

★To deliver the best media with all available resources

Filmgrid does not support:

★Media plagiarism

★Non creative media

★piracy

Firmgird believe:

★Artist talent doesn't give room to negative attitude

★Artist must not ask for money in any media uploaded

★Artist must not take credit for others media

★Clients on the platform must be respectful of other users ideology and beliefs

★Visual media should be narrative to users and not obliterate the users knowledge about the media

★Users will not be exploited on the platform

★Words such as film, picture and movie is accepted as relative term for digital media on the platform

FILMGRID DESCRIPTION

Filmgrid is a decentralized p2p platform which is specialize in the streaming, trading and funding of individual movies and digital media over the internet. Filmgrid eliminates movie distribution companies and movies theaters giving room to fair profit distribution among the curators and also reducing the cost of digital media to the public.

The Filmgrid platform is separated into 2 groups;

BILLBOARD (movies exchange) : This is a show bill on the platform which display all the movies register on the filmgrid platform and are up for sale.

This is where clients can sort media out with a unique filter system to search and trade for media easily. Flicks will be categorized into 3 on the platform;

a. Premiere

b. Screening

c. Home cinema

How to sell digital media on the billboard;

a. All the participants of the media must register on the Filmgrid platform as creative clients

b. A creative team will be set up including the creative clients who participate in the media production

c. The media must be register on the billboard

d. The media must be uploaded in the compatible format

e. For the presentation of the billboard, image must be uploaded

How to buy digital media on the billboard;

a. The buyer will pick a title from the list of digital media under the screening or premiere section

b. Click on the project page to use the method of payment

i. Filmpass token (FILM) or bitcoin as payment for premiere media

ii. ETH or fiat through PayPal for screening media

c. Transaction only take place if the buyer have sufficient funds for the payment of the desire media

d. The playback key of the purchased media is set to the buyer wallet

e. The buyer is now set to watch or download the content

PITCHBOARD: This is where producers can seek support for their works.

PLATFORM USERS

To access the platform its compulsory to register as a client which depend on the level of participation, different commitment and benefits is acknowledged and divided on platform as follows;

A. Viewing Client (Level One) : These are random Internet users seeking for free or little cost digital media. They have access to participate in voting on the pitchboard and buy movies on the billboard after registration on the filmgrid network.

B. Creative Client (Level Two) : These are individuals which are involve in the making of a movie. They include screenwriter, director, costume designer, production designer, producer e.t.c

C. Investing Client (Level Three) : These are the platform users that invest in movies production using the platform digital currency as payment

D. Creative Team : This is a team of specialized individuals selected to market a digital media project

E. Production Pool : This is a team of the investing clients whose duty is to share the production cost among themselves

F. Patreon : These are users who buy digital media in presale

G. Fan : This is a client which follow a creative member or team

A client have rights to its previous level benefit after upgrading from one level to another i.e an investing client in addition to his/her investing on the platform can also make digital media just like the creative client.