I need some wreckers and fans

The focus of my thesis is to explore and analyze the collaboration process, and its possible conflicts of interest. To get the complete picture of the process, it is important to me to get in contact with users, who has been involved in the making of Iron Sky, be it with small or large contributions or in any area of the process. My main interest is in the general mechanisms of the process, so any information you give me will be confidential and anonymized in the final thesis (unless, of course, you wish to be mentioned).

So if you would like to help me, f.ex. by participating in a mail correspondence, Skype interview or whatever seems practical, please contact me on this address:

iron.sky.thesis@gmail.com

5 months and 3 weeks to go

I am currently working on my thesis in the area of visual culture (on University of Copenhagen) I have chosen my focus to be crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and the use of communities in film production.

I have chosen Iron Sky as my main case, as it is a great project and Iron Sky is produced in collaboration with an online community. 

Iron Sky is a dark science fiction comedy that takes place in the year 2018, when the Nazis, who fled the Earth to the dark side of the Moon in 1945, return to claim the Earth. 

At Wreck-a-Movie, a collaborative film-making web site, the producers have invited everyone interested to take part in Iron Sky by offering ideas, funding and  publicity.

The fans and followers of the movie can take part in Iron Sky by offering the following things: Ideas, funding and publicity.

The aim of my thesis is to analyze and describe what happens when contributing users participate in a creative project along professional contributors. Does it form a power balance between users and professionals, and how does this (and other factors) affect the artistic result?