Maybe not paying a actor £20m per film would help. Both industries have become bloated. Were the rich/ companies get obscene amounts of cash and the new comers/ not mainstream acts get hardly anything. It's too late to change it tho, unless the labels/ companies want less % of the takings. Once again the small guy/ girl gets hurt were as people like Jay Z and Tom Cruise add a few more million to their vaults.
It's probably the earliest idea of clotheslining as a feature to injure or disable. Where Steve McQueen strings a wire between two posts on either side of a road to bring down a German soldier motorcyclist. Just an aside: if the film had been a little accurate and used German BMW bikes of the era, the bike in the feature would have have seen too much damage to one of its cylinder heads. They used a British Triumph 650cc Twin instead. Naughty, naughty. But McQueen loved Trumpets.
^^^^^^^^ bike geek ^^^^^ bike geek ^^^^^ I remember the film well. One of the best. McQueen did his own bike stunts too I believe.
The only way I see it changing is for the new artist to operate across the Web entirely, free from business, expensive gigs, exploitation, and everything that panders to allowing business people to make money out of them. The Web could and should be the perfect model for new artists to be heard.
Yeah sorry. But at least you know a motorbike fact now. McQueen did indeed do all the bike stunts. Except that jump. That's another thing. They would never have been able to do the stunts on a Beemer. Too heavy, unwieldy and lacking in power. The Triumph was relatively light, compact, agile, and had bags of the right stuff.
YouTube is a good start. But then obviously the youtube labels see talent and swoop in. Even YouTube takes way too much money off the video makers. There needs to be something like YouTube. But one that doesn't offer a pittance. Maybe one were you simply pay a subscription to put your videos/music up. But then when you are making a certain amount the website takes a cut(say 25%).
Indeed, it can't be beyond the wit of people. And there are other video/audio distributors besides Youtube.
Not sure what the money split is like but certainly a lot of people I listen to use Bandcamp as a way to offer free streaming and paid downloads.
Soundcloud for discovering and streaming music is pretty wonderful too. I use it a lot to find new music from independent artists all over the world.
So on Bandcamp artist accounts are free. Label accounts have a monthly fee. Revenue share on sales is 15% for digital, 10% for merch. https://bandcamp.com/pricing Seems a pretty reasonable deal, especially since they allow to operate a merch store and further reduce their percentage when an account has reached $5,000 in sales.
They have labels like Epitaph, Sub Pop and Fat Wreck Chords all operating through them and they've cleared $100m in money to artists (not their own profits) in about 6 years. They're doing well and have expanded their service continuously without taking anything more. You aren't going to find that Katy Perry song you're looking for Beef, but as I said, for independent music and certain genres they're well stocked.
When I was in in London on work. I decide to go to the Cinema after the meeting. They wanted to charge me £22.50 for a iMax showing. So I just left.
I went to see Gravity in the local iMax 3D, where they charged £17 for the premier seats. Those are the ones with a little more luxury. Have to say that it was one of biggest bargains I've ever had for £17. The cinematic experience was absolutely astonishing. That is in no way defending £17 to watch a film though. Usually that ticket would be so overpriced as to be laughable, premier seats or not. But once in a blue moon, a film grabs you and doesn't let go until the lights go up. £10 would be the most I'd want to spend for 99% of the films I'd bother to go and see. It also puts into perspective how over-priced football tickets are too.
