January 30, 2013 at 11:58am
Social Media Today reports on the rising influence of social media on the film industry.
January 24, 2013 at 1:19pm
Filmmakers can be so creative when they have close contact with their fan base. Really, that’s their best resource. The benefits of self-distributing, and having an open community in general, help move the process along so much faster.
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Will Mainguy, Reelhouse CEO
The Sundance Institute recently announced a new digital partnership with Reelhouse, an online video platform where filmmakers and artists can self-distribute their work.
For more, visit Mashable
October 18, 2012 at 5:08pm
YouTube Now Offers More In-Depth Analytics, Including Time Watched And Annotations Reporting →
Know your audience.
(Source: Tech Crunch)
October 3, 2012 at 11:27am
Choose Your Own Ending Movies on YouTube? →
Using YouTube‘s annotations feature, Australian pop singer Cody Simpson is now the star of a choose-your-own-adventure story with 15 possible outcomes.
Whether or not you like his music, you have to admit: a choose-your-own-ending YouTube movie could open a world of possibilites to up and coming filmmakers.
For more, go to Mashable.
September 26, 2012 at 1:28pm
Whoa. Should filmmakers be heading back over to MySpace?
September 20, 2012 at 6:37pm
How Maker Studios Is Turning YouTube Cynics Into Believers
“According to ComScore, Maker has an audience of 20.4 million viewers a month, fourth in all of YouTube… By Maker’s own measurement, which includes a network of more than 2,000 affiliated channels, it reaches 130 million people a month.”
June 5, 2012 at 11:35am
Finding Your People: Why Filmmakers Should be on Tumblr… Now
By Lauren Donia
Photo credit: Josh James on Flickr
I joined Tumblr in the summer of 2010, just a few months before permanently deleting my Facebook account. I was late to the game. Tumblr was already full of people who had been there for a couple of years and they all seemed to know one another. It was a tough nut to crack, as the saying goes, and it took some time for me to develop my sites, find blogs to follow and attract my own followers.
April 11, 2012 at 10:27am
Indie Filmmakers: Use YouTube & Find Your Audience
By Ryan Gielen
The perfect version of this is a filmmaker who spends the year leading up to her film shoot video blogging about the fundraising process, casting, producing, and any fears, hopes and challenges they face.
March 1, 2012 at 5:45pm
Social cinema: New app Is designed to motivate MovieGoers →
Increasing attendance? There’s an app for that.
