Create your own on-line channel for your films and movies

Posted by andrew in movie making on June 11th, 2010

One of the biggest problems facing film makers is getting people to see their work and movies. This is true of the big Hollywood and worldwide studious as it is of independents. You can throw all the money you want at a movie but if it’s a turkey, it’s a turkey and we public won’t be fooled.

While you and I may not be in this position of global distribution in the traditional sense, we are in a position to leverage one of the greatest communication tools ever known – the internet.

The internet is such a revolution for artists and business as it stands right now. You are able to get your goods up on the web and then pretty much anybody can come and see it.

This isn’t to say that it will always be this way. Who knows how the web will look in ten years from now but it will probably be based around much more video and moving picture content than written text pages. As browsing become integrated more and more with visual content and individuals get more organized with their own channels. Here are the advantages to having your own shop window.

  • Get a website or video blog now and upload your latest masterpiece.
  • Start making content on a regular basis and build a following.
  • In two-five years time you have your own massive channel with a back log of quality material.
  • Follow some simple search engine optimization rules and you can become an established presence on the internet!
  • You can be a TV channel of the future.
  • People will come to you for content, entertainment, advertising and perhaps even offer you work!

Start now and get organized for your future by becoming your own multimedia empire. It may seem like you have a long way go but you only need to take one step right now, followed by another one after that. Keep making movies and great content and be in it for the long run.

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Make films until your eyes bleed.

Posted by andrew in filmmaking on June 2nd, 2010

Have you heard the phrase about guitarists learning to play their instruments? They play until their fingers bleed.

I love this saying and it is now used across the board when it comes to illustrating how much passion is needed to master a craft. I was listening to “Slash” – the Guns and Roses guitarist –  the other day on the radio and someone rang in and said something along the lines of:

- “How long did it take before you mastered the guitar?”

Now you know this guy has been asked this more times than he’s had bottles of vodka – and he’s had a lot of booze (by his own admission). His answer was simple, he said he hasn’t mastered the guitar..yet . Slash knows that he still has stuff to learn and that’s a great attitude. Sure he has spent a lot of time butt naked, face down in his own vomit which he could have used for practice but he’s pretty good despite that.

This applies to learning and making films – you have to be consumed with the desire to know everything about the subject – that’s real passion. You have to be out there making films even if they are only one or two minutes long and you have to want to be out there doing that when you can’t.  When you feel like this you build up a momentum that is unstoppable as well as learning your craft.

Back in the old, early, wild days of Hollywood when the little independent studios were starting up there were hundreds of movies made every month and a lot of famous directors such as John Ford, learnt their skills here by churning out B-movie after B-movie.

Modern technology has provided us with similar opportunities today. There is cheap equipment and a place to show the finished product – the Internet.  How passionate are you to succeed as a film maker?

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