New business plans
Oct. 10th, 2012 05:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedHad a discussion with Jake last night, and have been thinking about it during my sleep afterwards. But, as of recently, I have decided that I would like to be in charge of some kind of anime network, be it online or on TV.
More specifically, I would like to be in control of more than just what I write personally. With fanfiction or a website or anything else independently made, you don't have any higher-ups to answer to, and thus, there's no satisfaction to have when you defy norms. In official media, Executive Meddling is the reason why only males are rebuked by females or do stupid things, or on the flip side, why only they get to be the heroes in most movies while women only talk to other women about men and only talk to men about other topics. These people tend to pull the plug on anything that breaks the "rules", negating any chance for the work in question to continue or even get started in the first place in favor of someone else's ideas. If I can find out how to become one of these people, I will most definitely enjoy the satisfaction of meddling with other people's works so that they disconform with the rules (just like Bart Simpson when he was created) and rejecting any commercials that involve men doing stupid shit like using a paintball gun to paint their walls.
Having thought about it, while I can't seem to find the page in question again, I do remember, back when I was aspiring to create Project Mai, reading on the Digipen website what relationships between publishers and developers of video games are like. Basically, the publisher provides funding for a game that a development team wants to create if they see it as profitable, and in return, the developer has to comply with any of the publisher's wishes, be it to cancel a project or to start something that a publisher would like created.
Even though the Internet has paved the way for a lot more independence in creating stuff, the fact does remain that a higher budget tends to increase the quality in a given work by enabling someone to hire more writers, voice actors, etc., or to buy stuff for things like sets. Furthermore, not everyone likes to watch or read everything they consume on the Internet. A lot of people like to still watch stuff on their TV sets (even if having to tune in to a set time to watch something will one day become irrelevant), going out to the theater to see movies is still much more of an experience for many than huddling around a computer, and there's also the fact that indie films have a much harder time getting off the ground than anything produced in Hollywood (not least of all due to the MPAA being a lot happier to apply an NC-17 rating to indies than to mainstream ones for reasons explained here).
Well, I've already shared an initial draft of my plans with Marie, and she said she'd start discussing such a prospect with me when she's not tired from stuff like work. Gonna need to get some books to really learn how things work, most likely after I'm all done with Kanji in Context and have freed my focus up.
More specifically, I would like to be in control of more than just what I write personally. With fanfiction or a website or anything else independently made, you don't have any higher-ups to answer to, and thus, there's no satisfaction to have when you defy norms. In official media, Executive Meddling is the reason why only males are rebuked by females or do stupid things, or on the flip side, why only they get to be the heroes in most movies while women only talk to other women about men and only talk to men about other topics. These people tend to pull the plug on anything that breaks the "rules", negating any chance for the work in question to continue or even get started in the first place in favor of someone else's ideas. If I can find out how to become one of these people, I will most definitely enjoy the satisfaction of meddling with other people's works so that they disconform with the rules (just like Bart Simpson when he was created) and rejecting any commercials that involve men doing stupid shit like using a paintball gun to paint their walls.
Having thought about it, while I can't seem to find the page in question again, I do remember, back when I was aspiring to create Project Mai, reading on the Digipen website what relationships between publishers and developers of video games are like. Basically, the publisher provides funding for a game that a development team wants to create if they see it as profitable, and in return, the developer has to comply with any of the publisher's wishes, be it to cancel a project or to start something that a publisher would like created.
Even though the Internet has paved the way for a lot more independence in creating stuff, the fact does remain that a higher budget tends to increase the quality in a given work by enabling someone to hire more writers, voice actors, etc., or to buy stuff for things like sets. Furthermore, not everyone likes to watch or read everything they consume on the Internet. A lot of people like to still watch stuff on their TV sets (even if having to tune in to a set time to watch something will one day become irrelevant), going out to the theater to see movies is still much more of an experience for many than huddling around a computer, and there's also the fact that indie films have a much harder time getting off the ground than anything produced in Hollywood (not least of all due to the MPAA being a lot happier to apply an NC-17 rating to indies than to mainstream ones for reasons explained here).
Well, I've already shared an initial draft of my plans with Marie, and she said she'd start discussing such a prospect with me when she's not tired from stuff like work. Gonna need to get some books to really learn how things work, most likely after I'm all done with Kanji in Context and have freed my focus up.