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Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Review for 2007-2008 by Tampa film festival expert and Tampa event planner C. A. Passinault.

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TAMPA BAY FILM ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2009

The official Tampa Bay Film review of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival By C. A. Passinault

Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
The Official Review
words and pictures by C. A. Passinault

About this review and potential conflicts
The writer of this review of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is also the owner of the online film festival, as well as the Tampa Bay Film sites. Additionally, this review is not scored entirely on base merit, like a normal review, but has factors weighed in which are only known to the writer, as he is directly involved in next generation online film festivals, and the successor to the current online film festival. As such, these developments, although they may not be able to be revealed, are being considered in the scoring of the current online film festival, as the few drawbacks of the online film festival are being addressed with the upcoming online film festivals.

2009, The Year That The Online Film Festival Came Into Its Own.

The overall concept of an online film festival is not entirely my own, although creating a Tampa online film festival was entirely my idea.

Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Scorecard

Please note that a score of 5 is average.

Concept (1-10): 9 (-1 deduction from last year's score of 10)
Not quite as fresh as a concept when the online film festival was developed in 2006, launched in 2007, and grew in 2008. There were improvements to the overall concept in 2009, however, although those improvements are small compared to what is in development with the successor of the online film festival, which, at the earliest, would not debut until 2011. The embedded file format continues to be both a blessing, and a curse, and the cost effectiveness is diminishing with cheap, plentiful bandwidth and file storage becoming widely available. 2010 is expected to be a routine year, at best.

Venue (1-10): 8 (+1 improvement over last year's score of 7)
With more free Wi Fi access points available, and compatability with popular devices such as the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the venue of wherever you happen to be just gets better. It is now possible to have a film festival at the local McDonald's while drinking a milk shake.

Vendors (1-10): 2 (-1 deduction from last year's score of 3)
Still no vendors, merchandise, or indie film sales /downloads, this is not expected to improve until the next generation of the online film festival in 2011.

Organization (1-10): 10 (+1 improvement over last year's score of 9)
The upgrade to the new Super Raptor class site format from the Raptor 3, and the addition of a right-side Tampa Bay Film site navigation menu led to improvements to the main menu of the online film festival. Films were much easier to find, and watch, and the channel based organization format of the online film festival was further enhanced. In 2009, the online film festival left the growing pains of its first two years behind, and became fully operational.

Entertainment (1-10): 8 (-2 deduction from last year's score of 10)
Although 2009 saw more indie films and less film trailers on the online film festival, issues with films being removed without warning by the owners on the embedded file accounts gave our viewers a few films which would not play. Dependence upon external video file sources is the main weakness of the online film festival, and what used to be an advantage by allowing us to quickly add films lost its edge when additional support work and graphics work required with the online film festival gave us administrative time roughly equivalent to if we had to host and manage the film files ourselves. Additionally, 2009 saw changes in the embedded file formats itself, with more pop up ads on the video itself, and videos that could be configured to be private, rendering them unwatchable. These issues will not be resolved until the next generation of the online film festival debuts, and is expected to be worse in 2010. It will be very difficult, logistically, to maintain a playlist of over 100 films with these ongoing issues, which limits the online film festival, and slows the addition of films (although the flexible and fluid nature of the upcoming PHP/ Database based online film festival would return the embedded file format to an easy, and cost-effective, format; the new online film festival will use our own flash-based viewer, and the reliance of external embedded files would be phased out, so this advantage may never be realized, if we were to skip the new 3rd generation online film festival and go to the 4th).

Attendance (1-10): 10 (Same as last year's score of 10)
Our unique visitors, and "attendance", for the online film festival, grew in 2009. The online film festival was fully up and running 99.9999% of the time, and with several films being viewed every second of every day, there is no better platform for promting, and marketing, indie films in Florida than the online film festival. By late 2009, it had been established as a standard in the indie film industry, and our numbers and watched films vastly out pace all of the film festival events in Florida, combined! The online film festival is open, and available, free of charge, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, wherever there is an Internet connection, on everything from laptop computers to iPhones.

Features (1-10): 8 (+1 improvement over last year's score of 7)
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival.

Admission Value (1-10): 10 (Same as last year's score of 10)
It’s free, so that’s good, but the ads can be annoying.

Overall Film Festival Score (1-10): 9 (+1 improvement over last year's score of 8)
Good, clean web site design and layout.

 

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