Style Productions

Style-productions.net is an online moviemaking community which focus is on gaming movies, founded by the movieteam Style Productions in 2006. Among the page's main features are news, media, guides (tutorials) and the forum. Their tagline is "We got style, do you?" The main focus of the site is on fragmovies, but there has also been released a few more humorous movies featured on the site, amongst others the "Style vs. Chillside"-series, which depicts the movieteams Style Productions and Chillside in battle AbOUT their skills within moviemaking. It is a considerably large community, and has grown to a number of over 7,000 members in less than a year, which is more than 20 persons joining per day. It's aim is to become the largest moviemaking community in the world, and it probably is. A Google search for "moviemaking community" shows that Style has the most members of the top ten results (per 2007-11-04)

History

Style-Productions was founded June 11, 2004 by Roy Christian Wego and Marius Larsson. At the time the crew consisted of four local boys from Saetre, Norway. The crew expanded fast after Jasper Wiese and Kenneth Aulie joined up. Being one of the best Call of Duty players in Europe, Kenneth gave the small team a large amount of attention. The wheels really started spinning when the team's first Swede, Andreas Bengtsson was recruited and Jasper released his first Style-Productions project which was a trailer for the Norwegian Counter-Strike clan "Credo". Even though it was no big release at the time, it did shed some light on the team and really spread the word about Style. Several months later, Style got in contact with www.counter-strike.nu, which was one of the biggest Counter-Strike communities in Scandinavia at that time. A deal was made, and Style became the site's official movie team. The deal with them was a big step for the team, giving them the opportunity to pick projects from the top shelf which was the beginning of a swarm of event movies from Style. Style has had its fair share of joiners and leavers, but they now have a solid team with everything from 3D animators, machinima-writers, regular video editors to a firm website staff.

Features

User features

User features are available to any registered user.

Registering

To post material, one has to register as a member. Members get a profile page where they can

• Make a presentation of themselves, provide their real name, location, computer attributes, favourite music and more.
• Have a guestbook
• Add a profile picture and forum avatar
• Send messages to other members.

Movieteams

A group of registered users can make a movieteam, which sets up a profile with information about the movieteam, their projects, and links to the members. Members of a movieteam get a tag with the movieteam's name below their nickname on the forum.

The forum

The forum is a section in which members discuss themes, ask questions and get help related to moviemaking, but there's also an off-topic section. It is possible to format one's posts to a certain degree with BBCode.

Reviews

Any registered user can write a review of a movie released. There is a top ten list of review writers based on what share of the texts a user is credited for writing.

Organisation features

Organisation features are possible to look at for everyone, but are only editable for the administrators.

Organisation

The organisation is the group of people who are working to make the Style Production movieteam and community what it is. This includes graphic artists, moviemakers, administrators and more. In the organisation section, every person gets a special presentation which differs from their profile presentation.

News

News writers and administrators of the site write news about what is going on in the moviemaking scene and within the movieteam Style Productions regularly. The news are divided into two categories: Style news and movie news. As Style Productions is a non-profit organisation, no writers are paid for their work. The money from the advertisements on the site are used for site maintenance.

Projects

The members of the Style Productions movieteam are always working on at least one movie. The projects section provides information on what is currently in ProgresS and general information about Style Productions' movie making. It is possible to ask the team to make a movie for you, but whether they take the job or not depends on your material, your reputation and your will to communicate with the team during the making. A person ordering a movie might have to pay for it. The team claims to use and have top knowledge of the best programs in the business.

Media

Media indexes all of the material released by the Style Productions movieteam.