The future is changing in the way we deliver and receive media.
If a filmmaker is smart about how he or she markets them selves there is a lot of opportunity, even in the small sites. I could give example, The truth is a website is no different than your local video store better really, are any retail store if their pushing your product/film it’s more than fare to give up 50%
Really there are a lot’s of options. There is one obvious way to me if your going to be an Indy filmmaker looking to self distribute.
Build a website with all the option from DVD sales to high quality pay/per/view streaming video. Then put a trailer on every site out there that you can load video to.
For those sites small or large that want to sale your film for 50% do it, as long as they don’t want some exclusive distribution contract, and all you have to do is load your film.
They do all the work to market and sale your film wow! No brainier. What if your film became a big hit on a small site that provided a nitch market?
That made your film stand out. Unlike Amazon we’re your competing with a lot of other films. Are we as filmmakers?
Going to be fare to them and give them a piece of the pie
And credit for our success.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
This is truly the highest Quality no buffering streaming video
New release of pay pal streaming video for filmmakers, really anybody wanting to monetize their video content online.
Like Martial Art Teachers, Yoga Instructors.
This is truly the highest Quality no buffering streaming video
Made available to the public. That has a secure built in pay pal service, with secure lifetime storage, easy access, easy to embed
Right onto your website or blogs. Send out invites to your movie
With a direct link and more. Get your portable viral theater now at filmmakershelp.com
Like Martial Art Teachers, Yoga Instructors.
This is truly the highest Quality no buffering streaming video
Made available to the public. That has a secure built in pay pal service, with secure lifetime storage, easy access, easy to embed
Right onto your website or blogs. Send out invites to your movie
With a direct link and more. Get your portable viral theater now at filmmakershelp.com
Sunday, May 4, 2008
48 HOUR FILM
NEW MEXICO 48 HOUR FILM COMPETITION 2008
See our film for the 48 hour film competitionBreaking In, by Key Vision Voice
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Duke City Shootout, this is a FREE screening.
http://www.keyvisionmedia.com/
To find out who the award winners are, plan on attending the:
BEST OF NEW MEXICO 48HFP
SCREENING AND AWARDS CEREMONY
Friday, August 1, 8 p.m.
Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
330 Tijeras NW
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Duke City Shootout, this is a FREE screening.
Here are the Best Films of New Mexico 2008
All the Right Tools, Heuvos en Fuego
An Easter Story, Los Chupacabros
Basket Case, Lost Film
Breaking In, Key Vision Voice
Down the Road, Heatstroke Productions
Home, Worldwide Strikeforce Films
Homeland, Ultimatim
Las Vegas New Mexico 1875, ARK Film Productions, LLC
Spared, Fireborn Films
Tinkerin', The In-famous El Guapo
Water Torture, Make Film, Chop Wood
Please forward this email to your team members so that they can come out and see
this year's "Best of New Mexico" 48HFP. Plus, don't forget to invite your
family, colleagues and friends to attend the screening.
JUDGES AWARDS
After the screening, the judges' work begins. A panel of 3 distinguished judges
has been selected.
They are:
Tracy Mercer, Vice President of Development for Morgan Freeman's Revelations
Entertainment
Jon Bowman, Executive Director, Santa Fe Film Festival
Jerry Barron, Mission Control, Inc.
The judges will select the Best New Mexico Film of 2008, as well as awards for
Best Directing, Best Script, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Acting,
Best Music, Best Sound Design, Best Effects, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of
Character, Best Use of Prop, and Best Use of Line. The judging criteria are
listed here <http://www.48hourfilm.com/
The New Mexico winning 2008 film will go on to compete against films from 69
other cities across the world for the best film of 2008. Last year the New
Mexico winning team, Trifecta Plus, came in 3rd in the world and screened at the
Cannes Film Festival.
Friday, May 2, 2008
FILMMAKERS CHANNEL NETWORK
YESTERDAY
Broadcasting was a closed society. Centralized multi-million dollar studios and government regulations made getting on the air a major obstacle.
TODAY
All you need is your own channel, the internet, and a webcam, along with your talent and passion to entertain communicate or teach.
TOMORROW
Tomorrow you will be choosing a low-grade channel like youtube
Or maybe you want a higher quality channel like a QuickTime player
Or maybe you go for one of these bigger platforms that claim to have streaming video, only to find out they don’t have the bandwidth to support you, and there’s still buffering issues and they want show their ads on your channel, don’t do any of these things, and get a Maxcast player,
Its free to start, it’s a ad free no buffering full screen high quality
Player with a built in pay/per/view button so you can conveniently
Charge for your videos, whether it’s a tutorial or a independent film, And its safe and secure, housed in one of the largest platforms online, Built by companies like Disney To get a MAXCAST channel you must be referred by an affiliate or friend here is your affiliate link,
FILMMAKER NETWORK
Broadcasting was a closed society. Centralized multi-million dollar studios and government regulations made getting on the air a major obstacle.
TODAY
All you need is your own channel, the internet, and a webcam, along with your talent and passion to entertain communicate or teach.
TOMORROW
Tomorrow you will be choosing a low-grade channel like youtube
Or maybe you want a higher quality channel like a QuickTime player
Or maybe you go for one of these bigger platforms that claim to have streaming video, only to find out they don’t have the bandwidth to support you, and there’s still buffering issues and they want show their ads on your channel, don’t do any of these things, and get a Maxcast player,
Its free to start, it’s a ad free no buffering full screen high quality
Player with a built in pay/per/view button so you can conveniently
Charge for your videos, whether it’s a tutorial or a independent film, And its safe and secure, housed in one of the largest platforms online, Built by companies like Disney To get a MAXCAST channel you must be referred by an affiliate or friend here is your affiliate link,
FILMMAKER NETWORK
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
INDIE FILMMAKERS
Hey all,
We've been cooking up some fun ideas at filmmakershelp, and we have a message to all filmmakers out there that would like to get help, or find ways to help filmmakers find solutions to monetize their content and finance future projects. We've got quite a group of talent already gathered at the filmmakershelp website. Some of our members have been busy creating tutorial videos only found here on the free social site, for free and designed in order to really help filmmakers.
One of the popular interests of our particular group is the contest for helping Netflix with a more effective solution for recommending new films to users. The currently employed offered are nearly all about some program or mathematical algorithms.
My personal viewpoint is that they are missing their most valuable assets; The members.
But first following some of the most obvious trends, let's take a look at what the public wants:
Let's look at the trend of social element being part of all the major online players for content on the web.
We see Youtube growing even now after reaching an average of 52 million visits a month.
Myspace is actually on a trend to outdo the mighty Google for traffic, along with Facebook and more sites, and more social membership programs are popping up daily.
Looking at this topic from a sociologist's standpoint one could surmise that; people are moving farther apart, and want to more than ever belong to something, to fit somewhere, associate with something, be heard and respected by their peers.
Next we look at the content available, Youtube and blip.tv, as well as Google and the others have dominated the user generated content market by getting the audience involved. They put the most popular videos om the front page giving the users that are most effective at getting attention even more popularity and status within the group. Now Youtube is opening profit sharing opportunities with this new breed of social filmmaker, and growing even more because of it.
This is the online viewing audience. and they are looking for content. If accurately tagged and reviewed by the public (an option for the member).
I say give the public a chance and like with wikipedia you could be surprised what becomes of it. Wiki has redefined mans view of fellow man in a way and in general we want to have our line in the page if we know for sure, we're helping.
I think there is a social network solution to the Netflix contest issue give this new social filmmaker a place in the system. Here's a possible scenario:
Netflix Social Solution
The real essence of the system has to be the focus on the social system, bloggers, video bloggers, and podcasters compete to be reviewers or critics and the social network picks the ones they want to listen to.This way bloggers and this new breed of social filmmakers become critics (and of course have their paid Netflix membership) to watch and review the films thus becoming potentially professional movie critics,(and who doesn't want that job?)
the critic after watching the film, leaves a review that covers quality, genre', acting, and or story contents(but not giving away the plot surprises)and recommended list of similar movies with each review.(Herein lies the secret to effective film association.)
The social network then comes in and comments on the reviews, the reviewer getting a large number on positive comments (and rating stars)should be paid by the content provider with a standard to be set by the provider, (rating and popularity, number of completed views, etc.)
In this way the public knows how the system works and the potential of getting paid to blog is integrated, thereby embracing all the current trends of the web.
Honestly, I predict that the solution ultimately derived from this contest will look similar to what I have outlined here.
But I'm also willing to put my money where my mouth is, I can create the website and run the beta test through a service I recently discovered and would call it netflixindy
FILMMAKERS CHANNEL NETWORK
We've been cooking up some fun ideas at filmmakershelp, and we have a message to all filmmakers out there that would like to get help, or find ways to help filmmakers find solutions to monetize their content and finance future projects. We've got quite a group of talent already gathered at the filmmakershelp website. Some of our members have been busy creating tutorial videos only found here on the free social site, for free and designed in order to really help filmmakers.
One of the popular interests of our particular group is the contest for helping Netflix with a more effective solution for recommending new films to users. The currently employed offered are nearly all about some program or mathematical algorithms.
My personal viewpoint is that they are missing their most valuable assets; The members.
But first following some of the most obvious trends, let's take a look at what the public wants:
Let's look at the trend of social element being part of all the major online players for content on the web.
We see Youtube growing even now after reaching an average of 52 million visits a month.
Myspace is actually on a trend to outdo the mighty Google for traffic, along with Facebook and more sites, and more social membership programs are popping up daily.
Looking at this topic from a sociologist's standpoint one could surmise that; people are moving farther apart, and want to more than ever belong to something, to fit somewhere, associate with something, be heard and respected by their peers.
Next we look at the content available, Youtube and blip.tv, as well as Google and the others have dominated the user generated content market by getting the audience involved. They put the most popular videos om the front page giving the users that are most effective at getting attention even more popularity and status within the group. Now Youtube is opening profit sharing opportunities with this new breed of social filmmaker, and growing even more because of it.
This is the online viewing audience. and they are looking for content. If accurately tagged and reviewed by the public (an option for the member).
I say give the public a chance and like with wikipedia you could be surprised what becomes of it. Wiki has redefined mans view of fellow man in a way and in general we want to have our line in the page if we know for sure, we're helping.
I think there is a social network solution to the Netflix contest issue give this new social filmmaker a place in the system. Here's a possible scenario:
Netflix Social Solution
The real essence of the system has to be the focus on the social system, bloggers, video bloggers, and podcasters compete to be reviewers or critics and the social network picks the ones they want to listen to.This way bloggers and this new breed of social filmmakers become critics (and of course have their paid Netflix membership) to watch and review the films thus becoming potentially professional movie critics,(and who doesn't want that job?)
the critic after watching the film, leaves a review that covers quality, genre', acting, and or story contents(but not giving away the plot surprises)and recommended list of similar movies with each review.(Herein lies the secret to effective film association.)
The social network then comes in and comments on the reviews, the reviewer getting a large number on positive comments (and rating stars)should be paid by the content provider with a standard to be set by the provider, (rating and popularity, number of completed views, etc.)
In this way the public knows how the system works and the potential of getting paid to blog is integrated, thereby embracing all the current trends of the web.
Honestly, I predict that the solution ultimately derived from this contest will look similar to what I have outlined here.
But I'm also willing to put my money where my mouth is, I can create the website and run the beta test through a service I recently discovered and would call it netflixindy
FILMMAKERS CHANNEL NETWORK
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