HitRecord (pronounced ; often stylized as HITREC●RD)
is an online collaborative
Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
media platform founded and owned by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances ...
Gordon-Levitt. The company uses a variety of media to produce such projects as short films
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
, books
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical ar ...
, and DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
s. HitRecord has produced such films as ''Don Jon
''Don Jon'' is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore, with Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Bri ...
'' and the short films '' Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny'' and its sequel '' Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo''.
History
In 2005, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt started the site with his brother, Dan. It began as a way for them to solicit feedback for videos they posted, but as time went on they opened the platform up to other creative people who wanted to review and remix their and others' work.
In January 2010 at the
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...
, HitRecord launched its new website and introduced its new professional production methodology, allowing contributing artists to be paid for their work. He invited audiences to collectively collaborate with him in the filmmaking process, and create, record, and remix each other's art with the goal of creating cohesive short multimedia work that would have a special screening at the end of the Festival. That year, Joseph sent out $50,000 worth of checks to its contributors.
The site now hosts nearly 80,000+ members
and pulls in about 1,000 videos, songs, text pieces and artworks daily.
The company's logo is the
record symbol, which Gordon-Levitt can be seen wearing frequently in interviews, at events and appearances. The actor/founder says "that round REC button became a symbol, a metaphor for taking things into my own hands and doing it."
HitRecord's work was also featured at 2010
SxSW
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...
and at the
2012 Sundance Film Festival
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.
Non-competition ...
.
Products
Feature films
* ''
Don Jon
''Don Jon'' is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore, with Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Bri ...
'' (2013)
Short films
* ''
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny'' (2010)
* ''
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo'' (2010)
* ''Jelly Babies With SFX'' (2012)
* ''Good Nights'' – Stop Motion (Final version) (2012)
* ''They Can't Turn the Lights Off Now'', Episode 2 - Sundance 2012
* ''Yes Were Sinking'' – Sundance 2012
* ''And A New Earth REPRISE'' – Sundance 2012
* ''November'' (Tiny film) (2012)
* ''Wicked Witch'' – Sundance 2012
* ''Strawberry Bootlaces'' – Sundance 2012
* ''Mademoiselle Noir (2)'' (2012)
* ''A Man With A Turnip For A Head'' – Sundance 2012
* ''Flickering Lights Reprise'' (2013)
hitRECord on TV
The show premiered on January 18, 2014, at 10pm on
Pivot
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*Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system
*More generally, the center point of any rotational system
*Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body
*Pivot turn, a dance move
Companies
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. It is hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the series will feature short films, live conversations and performances. $50,000 is set aside from the budget of each episode to compensate contributing artists (426 contributing artists in Episode 1).
Books
''The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2010'' was self-published in 2010 by hitrecord.org. Featuring 45 contributors from 2,312 contributions to the Tiny Stories collaboration. This edition of the ''Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2010'' was sold exclusively via HitRecord's website and carries no ISBN.
''
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1'' was released on December 6, 2011. Gordon-Levitt, known within the HitRecord community as RegularJOE, directed thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective, Gordon-Levitt gathered, edited and curated over 8,500 contributions into this collection of original art from 67 contributors.
Volume 1 saw its sequels when HitRecord released ''The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 2'' on November 13, 2012 and ''The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 3'' in 2013.
Volume 2 featured 62 contributors from some 14,946 contributions.
In May 2012, HitRecord published ''Little Red Riding Hood Redux'', the adaptation of the classic
fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical ...
with art, essays, and paper doll cut-outs from 66 contributors.
''The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1'' and the book of ''RECollection: Volume 1'' are both available on
iTunes
iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital mul ...
.
Anthology
''RECollection: Volume 1'' is a collection of a book, a DVD and a CD released on September 20, 2011. It features contributions of 471 collaborators is what and is the very first
anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.
In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
of HitRecord's work. The book is 64 full-color pages of poetry,
prose
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...
, paintings, photography, comical curiosities,
non-sequiturs, and bed-time stories. While the DVD is a collection of 36 short films created under the direction of Gordon-Levitt (and sometimes starring in). It features short films, animations, music videos, "tiny stories" and records from HitRecord's various live events. The CD is a compilation of 17 collaboratively-made songs sung by various artists on Gordon-Levitt's "pretend" radio show.
CDs
''Move on the Sun''
''Move on the Sun'', released September 11, 2012, is a
pop,
alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...
music CD.
# "Move on the Sun" – 3:41
# "Enjoy the Ride" – 3:33
# "Downtown 81" – 3:14
# "Anicca (Original)" – 2:44
# "Electric Loss" – 4:24
# "Malibu" – 4:25
# "Wolves in the Woods" – 3:57
# "Please Hold (Interlude)" – 0:49
# "The Good Stay Young (Interlude)" – 0:36
# "Diamond in the Rough" – 4:01
# "More" – 4:26
# "For Mallory" – 3:12
# "No Time to Wait" (Anicca Remix)
featuring Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
– 3:09
# "The Grind" featuring
Nels Cline
Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004.
In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline, Alex, a percussionis ...
– 7:08
# "Why Am I So Dizzy?"
featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances ...
– 2:24
Total length: 51:43
''Fall Formal''
''Fall Formal (HitRecorderly #3)'', released April 16, 2013, is a
pop,
alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...
music CD.
# "Introduction"
feat. Kid Koala
Eric San (born December 5, 1974), aka Kid Koala, is a Canadian scratch DJ, music producer, theatre producer, film composer, multimedia-performer and visual artist. His career began as a scratch DJ in 1994. Kid Koala works with genres as eclectic ...
& Uberband – 2:01
# "American Scrimp n Save"
feat. Sia
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she rel ...
& Regular Joe – 3:08
# "Nothing Big"
feat. Tasha Taylor & Regular Joe – 2:07
# "Le Petit Soldat"
feat. Evilolive, Themetafictionist & Regular Joe – 2:18
# "Act 2 Introduction"
feat. Kid Koala & Uberband – 1:31
# "I Have No Cats"
feat. Regular Joe & the Cats – 2:08
# "Soul n Serotonin"
feat. Tasha Taylor & Regular Joe – 3:35
# "Finale"
feat. Regular Joe – 5:37
Total length: 22:25
References
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