Social network Facebook has decided to engage independent production movie.
A few days ago, the company has posted on LinkedIn a vacancy of producer who would help her in “the design, writing scripts, producing and editing film content.”
Also the site of Mark Zuckerberg seeks a software engineer whose responsibilities will include “integration of film footage captured the creative teams in our rendering engine of the content to create a new personalized video.”
Another free position Facebook — a leader responsible for partnerships with media companies. It will charge to negotiate with film studios around the world for “production of video programs that are well suited for new and emerging consumption patterns, as well as for mobile and social experiences of the viewer”. The manufacture of any type of video content will new employees of Facebook, news, entertainment or some other, not specified.
New initiative responds to the desire of Zuckerberg to make Facebook company dealing primarily video. “Last year we started to invest in more original content to help ‘spread’ the ecosystem, — said the head of the social network in February. We want to do more in 2017”. But on the conference call held earlier this week, Facebook CFO David Wehner announced that the company “gives rise” to the production of longer content.
At the same time, Oculus, the “daughter” Facebook, has decided to close the Studio Story Studio, which released a few short films virtual reality. According to Vice President Jason Rubin, the company will go from producing its own VR content to support third-party studios, “working in documentary, interactive content,” and are willing to invest on these purposes $50 million.
Story Studio was founded in 2014 and since then managed to make several very successful projects. For example, last year the Studio won the award “Emmy” for VR-cartoon Henry (“Henry”), designed in the spirit of Pixar.
Facebook — another IT giant, which followed the trend of producing its own video content. Unique content will ensure that the sites Facebook inflow to a wider audience and will allow them to earn more due to the growing demand for video ads.
Amazon, for example, shows at least ten TV programs, and one of them — “the Man in the high castle” (The Man in the High Castle) — is actively promoted online. And in may 2016, the online retailer has launched its own Video hosting service Direct, where users can upload videos and earn on advertising and licensing fees. An active interest in the original TV show and TV series also shows the Apple i-the company is interested in shooting short films, music videos and documentaries.
Negotiations with television and media companies such as NBCUniversal, ESPN, ABC, Turner and NF are the developers of Snapchat messenger. According to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the original content produced Snap together with partners (this will be a short mini-episodes of 3-5 minutes each), will appear under “History.”
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