The Daily Technocrat

I got an idea the other day while watching a commercial for the upcoming Pink Panther movie: ‘What can we do about horrible movies’? Now, to be fair, the movie isn’t out yet (I think), but let’s just hypothetically say that it’s going to be horrible.

Who thinks up these ideas? I’m sure they’re highly paid consultants who don’t have any idea on what people really want to see or just have some other agenda (Home Alone 3 and Brokeback Mountain). I mean, what is up with the hierarchy here? Should people come up with the ideas for movies, maybe even help write them? Seems like having your product designed by your target audience is a win-win situation.

I like this idea, so I introduce to you, “WikiScript”. Basically, anyone can log onto the web site, and search by genre. Let’s say someone wants to help write a comedy. Click on the ‘Comedy’ section of the site, and you will see all of the works in progress listed, and a short description, much like the back cover of a DVD.

Anyone registered with a user account could edit any script, and anyone could edit their edits. Furthermore, there would be a mechanism in place that would keep track of how many words you have contributed to a script.

In the end, when the script is done, it ould be listed as ‘completed’, and have a list of all of the contributors, and how many words they contributed. The script would be free to be read by anyone.

To compensate people for their creative genius, the license for use would be that any production that earns money with the script would have to pay a portion of the proceeds (maybe 10%?) to the authors. That 10% would be divided up by how much each author contributed.

Sound like a good idea? I think so! Let me know if you like this idea, and I’ll make the site.