Coalition on the web

The Coalition of The Willing website will be the public face of the film. We certainly envisage a film festival run once the film is complete, but really a film such as ours, discussing the potential of internet based collaboration must have it's primary place of residence on the web.

We see the site as being much more than just a vehicle for hosting the film. Firstly there's our idea of a 'staggered' online release. What we're going to do here is start off by publishing just the written argument (the voice-over script of the film) on the website. Then we will have several release 'waves' where a number of the sections of the film will be posted each time. Essentially, each 'wave' will flesh out the written polemic, adding moving image to the written words. We foresee the first such 'wave' of uploads being around the end of November.

Secondly, there's the idea of having the film site as a hub of activity and discussion on the issues thrown up by the film. We're going to post articles by Tim and other invited authors that elaborate on areas the film discusses. Also, we want to encourage the audience to post their own thoughts and feelings and respond to our film and the arguments of the 'invited' articles. We want to develop a way of visually tying in user generated content with the animated sections the film. After all once a film is made, its message is locked in time, it doesn't evlove, but the world and the debate evolves and moves on every day. In as much a site like this will help keep the debate current and alive.

We are now collaborating with creative web developer Tim Dillon who is taking the helm and leading us through the online minefield. We are also in talks with ace Flash developer Dermot Glennon from Toronto, who will hopefully be working on some of the Flash based aspects of the site.