Comments on: Your Film Online http://nofilmschool.com/2008/09/your-film-online/ Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo tries to start a film career in New York, without going to film school; hilarity ensues. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Julian Pererra http://nofilmschool.com/2008/09/your-film-online/comment-page-1/#comment-62485 Julian Pererra Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:02:40 +0000 http://nofilmschool.com/2008/09/your-film-online/#comment-62485 I think another thing that can be done to mitigate the downtime between a film festival run which garners attention in the first place and the eventual sale of a film is to have a blog that has interesting content that will keep them engaged until such time that the film can be sold to them. This has happened to me a lot: hear of a cool film, find their website, it's full of flash and I sign up on their email list. I never hear back from them or all they do is tell me stuff I don't care about (film festivals they are playing that I don't live near). Instead of instant digital sales of the movie you could also have some other related materials for sale, like extended DVD extras or a series of short films based in the same storyworld. I think another thing that can be done to mitigate the downtime between a film festival run which garners attention in the first place and the eventual sale of a film is to have a blog that has interesting content that will keep them engaged until such time that the film can be sold to them.

This has happened to me a lot: hear of a cool film, find their website, it’s full of flash and I sign up on their email list. I never hear back from them or all they do is tell me stuff I don’t care about (film festivals they are playing that I don’t live near).

Instead of instant digital sales of the movie you could also have some other related materials for sale, like extended DVD extras or a series of short films based in the same storyworld.

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