‘Battlestar Galactica’ invites viewers to remix

Steve Safran March 9th, 2007

Once again, the wisdom of the citizens of the colonies outweighs that of the colonial fleet. And if that’s too geeky for you, too bad. The rest of us will have fun with the Battlestar Galactica Videomaker Toolkit. You can download a bunch of video and audio files from the show, mash ‘em up with your own stuff, and re-upload them if you want. Can’t wait to see the results. Empowered Sci-Fi fans? I’m guessing they’ll be kinda creative, yeah. Lesson for locals: Give your viewers this kind of simple access and see what sort of videos they’ll make about your community. UPON FURTHER REFLECTION: I don’t like that I couldn’t, say use this stuff to do a promo for LR and then embed it on LR. I couldn’t upload a finished video to YouTube (or SciFi) and then embed it on my site? A missed opportunity for further marketing. If we’re going to do all that work, let us showcase it. Doing the work and then not being able to share the results? Frakked. (via Brand Flakes for Breakfast.)

So say we all.