Here is our take on the trailer for the upcoming Summer In The City event! The background music was composed by us and we hope that you enjoy this production!

I love me some autopsy....

Ok RECorders!

Some of this video (about the tagging) is a little bit irrelevant now that I've worked out how to set it as a collaboration (horaay!) So stroll on down to my collaborations, and see 'rebecca rebecca rebecca' !

That is all...go crazy, do your thing, update in a few days.

Rebecca

Well, it was our very first time doing it, and it did take us a while, but we've finally sent out 147 checks adding up to $10,000 to all the contributing hitRECorders who collaborated on the short films we screened at Sundance 2010. Congratulations to all, and most of all thanks! And it's not gonna take us nearly this long to get the SxSW checks out...
:o)

INCEPTION is coming out soon, and in conjunction with its release, they're making a documentary on dreams. I suggested that hitRECord contribute to the project. See the collaboration page here http://www.hitrecord.org/records/78958 -- This is gonna be fucking awesome.

The documentarian directing it is a guy named Roko Belic. He and I recently sat down to discuss how we can best throw our flavor into the mix.

Largely, it seems he's looking for dreamy visuals for cutaways. He mentioned five archetypal dreams and asked us to create visual/graphic/animated/cinematic interpretations.

1. Inappropriate Dress
2. Teeth Falling Out
3. Flying
4. Being Chased
5. Falling

If you want to shoot a whole short film out of any of these dreams, that's great. But it's also great to contribute your brick in the larger wall. Draw a picture, take a photo, animate a moment.

Also, Roko hasn't chosen any music yet, so the more dreamy sounding stuff we can throw his way, the more likely our tunes can make up this doc's score.

Also also, even if you don't make any videos, images or music, you can still really help by browsing through the RECords we've already got on our site and finding stuff you think might work for this project. Find dreamy, surreal, beautiful visuals -- still images are good, but video is even better. Find dreamy music or soundscapes. Compile an Album of the RECords you find, and contribute that album to the Collaboration.

I'm so grateful and happy to be a part of Inception -- I think you guys are really gonna love the movie. And I can't wait to see what we all make together.

Sleep to dream...
J

RegularJOE here. The old media tends to call me Joseph Gordon-Levitt, that being my name and all. Here in the new media, I hit that round red REC button on a regular basis.

HITRECORD.ORG is a project I started almost five years ago now, and in 2010, we've evolved into a full-fledged professional collaborative production company.

On new year's day, I released this video called THE NEW DEAL in which I've layed out what I want to do with hitRECord, how we're going to do it, and why.

In a nutshell: we create and develop art and media collaboratively here on our site; we use my position in the traditional entertainment industry to turn that creativity into money-making productions; and then we share any profits with the contributing artists.

In a nutter shell, we just have fun making things together. Videos, writing, photography, music, anything -- we call them all RECords. Are you RECording?

again by heart...

This is for the video that visitors will see when they first arrive at our website here. Now, this is just the bare (boring) bones. What it needs is -- of course -- some good remixing. Basically three things: visual cutaways, music, and other people talking.

VISUAL CUTAWAYS. For every idea I communicate, I'm hoping there's a visual to go along with it. I don't care if my face is hardly in this video at all. I just want there to constantly be more and more things to look at. So listen to what I'm saying, and when any particular thing I say strikes you, try to find a piece of video or a few images here on hitRECord that express the same thing. And cut that together. Or, if you don't have the video editing tools to cut them in yourself, just make an album of the RECords you think oughta be Resourced, write in your album's description which RECords go with which parts of the video, and contribute that album to the collaboration. And by the way, the connection between idea and visual doesn't have to be 100% explicitly obvious, as long as it's interesting.

MUSIC. Well this one's pretty clear. There's so much good music on here by now. Which pieces should we use? I'd say, each little subsection of the video should probably have its own musical RECord to go under it.

OTHER PEOPLE TALKING. I just RECorded the ideas and sentiments that I want visitors to encounter when they first arrive at the site. But it doesn't have to be me saying the whole thing. A lot of you guys have already said a lot of this stuff. Or you can RECord yourself saying it now. And it doesn't have to be in my words, as long as the idea/sentiment matches. I sort of got this process started at the very top of the video.

A lot of you guys have also already RECorded and reRECorded great versions of this welcome video. I know it's been a sorta lengthy process getting this together. But think about it, this is a really important video for us! As more and more people hear about our collaborative collective, we want more and more talented, skilled, cool artists to come work with us on our projects. And this is gonna be the first thing they see.

(NOTE for if/when you download/remix this video. I exported it with H.264 compression which makes it a manageable file size. But once you've downloaded it, you can up-convert it to Apple ProRes -- using an application like Mpeg Streamclip -- before importing into whatever editing software you use.)