New Esperanto Documentary "The Universal Language" from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green
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erinja (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 10 Nzero 2012 18:17:13
Things cost money to make, and advertising doesn't usually cover the cost. You have to be realistic. The filmmaker needs to make a living too. I don't know very many people who would be interested in taking a job that is totally unpaid, so why would you expect someone else to work without pay?
SPX (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 31 Mukakaro 2012 18:42:13
erinja:Regardless of the cost (or non-cost) of the movie, it always surprises me how people seem to think that everything online should be available for free.Co-Signed.
Things cost money to make, and advertising doesn't usually cover the cost. You have to be realistic. The filmmaker needs to make a living too. I don't know very many people who would be interested in taking a job that is totally unpaid, so why would you expect someone else to work without pay?
Even though it's only 30 minutes, Green obviously had to put a decent amount of money into this. Not only are there the usual filmmaking costs, like paying the crew, paying for animations, licensing copyrighted materials, etc., but it's clear he traveled quite a bit to get the footage he needed. Just this small film probably cost $20K or so.
As an aspiring filmmaker I really hope people won't expect me to dump thousands of dollars of my own money into the project and then just give away the result.
Oijos (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 17 Ndamukiza 2013 14:56:41
This is a serious problem also when watching English Youtube-videos, news, etc. When I don't know some word, and when I really need to know it to understand something, I haven't succeeded to find it in dictionary even a single time! I just can't hear it clearly enough, and the spelling system sucks big time, too.
Also, I understood below half of the Esperanto spoken, and maybe 90-95 % of English spoken. And I have quite a similar level in those languages. Why it's so difficult to distinguish the Esperanto sounds?
JDnDorks (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 17 Ndamukiza 2013 16:20:45
Oijos:What is the name of the island off the coast of Netherlands that Arika Okrent mentions? I have listened it carefully about 10-15 times and I have been Googling it for ten minutes! How it is WRITTEN!? It's around minute 21 of the film. There were a claim that there were at some moment 1000 speakers of Esperanto out of 8000!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel
That was tough. Wouldn't have guessed "Texel" from what sounds like "Peŝel".
JDnDorks (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 17 Ndamukiza 2013 21:50:03
