Posts Tagged ‘tricks’

How to Make the Impossible Possible?

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Tricks&Tips on how to Get Your Film Distributed and Marketed Online

On the occasion of our new Impossible Film Contest, where we invited the Short Film Corner participants of the Cannes Film Festival to upload their films on Daazo.com and compete for a wide audience, we collected the most important things a filmmaker needs to know about online distribution and marketing.

1. Go Social! Post your film on social networking sites keeping in mind that Facebook is the most important of all! Take advantage of your friends, ask them to comment and share your film and get use of the network effect to reach new people!

2. Utilise your crew! Make sure that everyone associated with the film and consequently interested in its success knows about your plan and shares the film with their social networks.

3. Target key influencers! Email a few major blogs and news sites that share an interest in the film’s topic or technique. The most important thing is to look professional. Craft the email well, include a well-written teaser description, highlight the context of making of the film, add some information about you as a director, a hi-quality image and the Daazo.com link to your film.

4. Don’t give up! We know that it’s a lot of hard work, but continue reaching out to new people during the whole promotion period!

5. Capture your fans! Once you found your target audience and reached the right community that likes your film, you must engage them and keep them informed. Set up a website with additional info and create a Facebook page for news updates! It’s also important to link your film’s Daazo.com page to the website and to the Facebook page. Then you can start communicating with people interested in your project and building a fan base. Good to know that once you have a loyal fan base launching your next film is going to be easier!

If you are a participant of the Impossible Film Contest, then good work to you!

Though, if you are a member of the audience, you have the most important role to perform: voting for the best!

All competing films are available now on www.daazo.com/impossiblecannes
Voting is open until 00:00pm 22nd May.

Vote for the best film and help making the impossible possible!

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The Tricks and Traps of Independent Filmmaking

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

The Very Basics that Every Filmmaker Should Know

The ultimate place for a low-budget, independent-minded filmmaker to learn the tricks about filmmaking for free is Raindance. Though they deal with a lot of things (training courses, seminars, feature film projects, film festivals and awards) the best is that they provide practical  information about all aspects of filmmaking free of charge. These are the so called “How to Tips” for writers, producers, directors and general filmmaking tips.

Here is a selection about the best posts you can find on the site.

Things Filmmakers Should Know About Screenwriting But Usually Don’t: it’s a witty piece by the Raindance founder Elliot Grove that collects the common mistakes producers commit when dealing with a script, tells the very basics of scriptwriting and gives you ideas about how to get the job done fast, properly and without yelling.

Low Budget Film Guide: a compilation of the must sees for any aspiring filmmaker with the budgets included. The list includes Living In Oblivion a fable that demonstrates what can and will go wrong on a low budget film shoot and such classic examples of zero budget “blockbusters” like El Mariachi, The Blair Witch Project or Primer.

9 Routes to Breaking In As a Film Director: a useful guide to orient yourself, it shows you all the options to put yourself on the very map of the film industry. It’s worth considering all the ways when launching your career as a director. The compilation also offers some examples of directors who chose that certain way and became a hit.

10 Things a Filmmaker Needs Every Day: it’s about the basic craft that a filmmaker can’t miss without loosing something bigger and more important. Look at the list and check your stuff. Missing anything? Get it asap!

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Tips & tricks – how to be seen on Daazo

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Our aim is to give you an alternative platform where your film will appear alongside its equals instead of viral videos or karaoke performances as it would on YouTube.

Daazo is specialized in short films. However, it’s not enough just uploading your films and waiting for the audience. Since in most of the cases you are the director, cameraman and editor of your films at the same time, you should realize that it’s necessary being your own producer and – most importantly – your own distributor. So don’t hesitate to use the advantages of the Web. Now it’s easier than ever to show your film to your friends, instead of organizing screenings or sending dvds.

We figured out something we believe in, called “Distribution Game”. On Daazo you can choose a date for your uploaded films and on this particular date your film will be on the main page for 24 hours for sure. No other site offers this. This way, you are your own distributor, releasing your film on the date you choose. We are pretty sure that you also have your accounts on the popular social-network sites (Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, not to mention the popular video blogs: Milk and Cookies, Videobomb, Spike, Infectious of Films etc.) – don’t forget to upload your artwork there, too. When your films are on Daazo, they are in a different context from appearing on a video site. It is a film site for film-makers. Daazo is visited by people who want to watch something more valuable than karaoke.

People are waiting for your film. Just let them know they can watch it on Daazo!

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