Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

This article was written by Anastasios Papapostolou.
“He is the Greek – American who “beat the system” of the entertainment industry. Like so many others, he could have been waiting for the day to meet the “right producer” or studio executive to start his career. Instead, Matt Koval took a risk. Although he was a “nobody”, [...]

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With the boom of the World Wide Web or what is commonly known as the internet, age old Hollywood is undergoing a drastic change with the strong emergence of the independent film makers.
Internet teamed along with the digital technology has paved way to several new markets for the films. Also it offers plethora of phenomenal [...]

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“Since release in May The Hunt For Gollum has been seen by over 4 million people all over the world. Made on a tiny budget of £3000 and distributed via the Internet, the film is an astonishingly high quality 40 minute movie made in England by unknown director Chris Bouchard.
Millions of Lord of the Rings [...]

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“Do you love scripting and shooting movies? Do you have a movie that has a spellbinding storyline but not quite sure how to market it? Well, you have probably heard about YouTube.com and their phenomenal success hosting virals on their web site. It started out very small, on a shoestring budget, and grew over just [...]

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“For years now, the Internet has posed producers a seemingly impossible-to-answer question: How to monetize Web content.
This month, European producers showcased solutions — at film festivals.
On Oct. 2, Barcelona shingles Kotoc and Edda Design presented toon/Web series “The Extras” and “Sweesters,” respectively, at a vidgame/multiplatform confab organized by Catalan pubcaster TV3 during the Sitges Fantasy [...]

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“Online video ventures haven’t fared particularly well in recent years. Eager to replicate the success of “Saturday Night Live’s” digital shorts or YouTube’s quirky user-generated fair, a number of businesses — including NBC’s DotComedy, Turner’s SuperDeluxe and ABC-Disney Television’s Stage 9 Digital — have gone under due to a lack of advertising dollars.”
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“There are many budget friendly, online marketing techniques that content producers can use to drive website traffic and viewers to their online television, films or videos. FaceBook has gotten a lot of press lately, so here are three other alternatives.”
Read this article from Greenlight360.

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“When web series first started coming up, “super-syndication” was a big buzzword. Since video hosting sites were free, the idea was that creators should take a shotgun approach and blast their content out to every site possible. But is that still the smartest strategy?”
Read this article from New Teevee.

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“For a long time, people have been moving away from TV — we’re trying to reaggregate that audience,” said NBC.com general manager Steve Andrade. He was speaking on a panel Wednesday in North Hollywood as a nominee for the interactive media Emmy awards. NBC dominated the honorees — it seems to have got this digital [...]

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