Industry Revolution: How the entertainment industry can work together

One of the major issues I see within the entertainment industry is the lack of respect many artists have for each other. I'm not talking about competition, because that's a healthy entity that will never leave this industry. I'm talking about the fact that just recently music and film have really begun to come together and do something other than music videos.

                        ("It Might Get Loud"a 2008 doc about music and creating art together)

This industry is such an amazing opportunity for creative individuals to team together and change the way lives are lived. Music and Film needs to work together to change the industry as a whole, because if we don't we will lose the industry we love to the conglomerate corporations who govern over us. One of my classmates has started a revolution with his new website, www.CollabAve.com, which is going to make a huge splash in the industry. 

Basically, what his site does is connect independent artists with independent audio engineers who will then mix their tracks and the artist can choose with mix he/she wants to go with. It's all about connecting the little guys together to help create lasting networks of indie artists and take some of the power away from the labels.  Everyone thinks they need a label or a studio backing them in order to be successful, but in reality those entities tend to make things harder.

Now, he and I have seen the opportunity for us to work together and help spread the revolution that we both believe in so deeply. So, we have begun interviewing industry professionals in the independent music industry to raises awareness for indie artists. Using my filmmaking skills, and his website, we are able to join our two industries together and do our part to bring people up to date with what is really going on in entertainment. These few interviews we have done have inspired us to turn what was once just a simple promotional campaign for his site into a full fledged documentary highlighting indie music and artists.