RECYCLED FOOTAGE PROJECT FAR FOUND LAUNCHES

OUR 2020 project to UNjunk YOUR footage and recycle it

AGE OF RECORD : OUR TIME OF IMAGE OVERLOAD

Humanity will take 1,436,300,000,000 photos in 2020, or more than 1.4 trillion images. Most of them never see the light of day. The total number of photos stored is expected to rise from 7.4 trillion in 2020 to 9.3 trillion in 2022.

“1.7 megabytes of new data is created every second, for every human on the planet,” writes Bernard Marr in Big Data In Practice. This data is coming from emails, messages, posts and a big bulk from photos and video footage.

“The question of where all this media will go in the future has been shoved aside. The more urgent question is: What are we supposed to do with it right now?”, the New York Times reports.

At the turn of the century 80 billion photographs had been produced, ever since the very first photograph was captured in 1838 in France.

That number is nothing by today’s standards, as we race towards the two trillion mark of images generated annually.

At the same time, 90 per cent of the data on the internet has been created since 2016, according to an IBM Marketing Cloud study, and as of June 2019 there are now over 4.4 billion internet users, an 83 per cent increase in the number of people using the internet in just five years. Three hundred million photos are uploaded to Facebook, 95 million to Instagram every day and 300 hours of video footage every hour to Youtube.

At the same time, physical media - prints and home video tapes - have declined, meaning digital archives both personal and work have grown exponentially. What value is on all that footage out there not being used?

Enter our new project…

recycle your stock into a story

PROJECT DETAILS

Far Found is our new video & image recycling project. The project turns discarded, junk, stock or archival video footage and images into something new and of value to footage owners and audiences. We unarchive video and photography for media, companies and NGOs to create short films and multimedia stories for digital distribution.

If you work for a company with banks of archive footage, we can produce and edit your stock into a compelling visual story. Get in touch here and we can reply with a creative response and our rates.

Far Found was created in response to recent travel-affected film productions and a less-is-more ethos within our company. In 2020, our focus is on moving towards a multimedia + minimalist approach to production work and remote producing projects in line with our company values.

A project to find value in discarded footage locked in data storage.

Problem
Junk, old, unused, stock, archival footage cluttering digital and physical space.

Solution
Create nostalgic, historic, entertaining and engaging short films or multimedia campaigns that reinforce recycling philosophies for companies, media & NGOs.

Services
Our script writer, producer, photographer, designer and editor can produce: