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Originally Posted by kane
I'm not sure if you watched his show Comic Book Men that was on over the last few months, but in one of the episodes he made a very good point. Someone asked about whether a person could do what he did with Clerks today. He said yes, but that the dynamic has changed. Back when he did Clerks actually getting the movie made was the hard part because it was expensive to get the equipment then shoot and edit the movie etc. If you actually got your movie made getting into festivals and getting notices was much easier than actually making the movie. Now with technology you can almost shoot and edit your movie right on on your iPhone. Everyone with a few hundred dollars now has access to the technology to make a movie. So the hard part becomes getting through the glut of movies that are being made and setting yourself apart in a way that people notice so that your movie can get viewers and make money.
So you are dead on. Making a movie is one thing, but getting noticed is another.
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your so wrong
it really easy to get notice
it just a longer game
you give away short stuff until people like your stuff enough to pay for it.
the methodology is simple
give away sample of ALL your ideas just make sure that it can expand into bigger if someone likes it and is willing to pay for it.
Wil wheaton did it
he did the one review for free, release it under CC-SA
and the fans spread it because they were allowed
until someone with the power decide it was worth while PAYING him to do those type of reviews for ALL the TNG episodes.
If what your doing is good quality, that people want to share because it good quality
It a simple three step process
1. produce the shit
2. release it under CC-SA
3. share it with your circle of friends.
There are tons of things you can do to improve expand that base (ppc, youtube optimization, seo, torrent optimization, etc) but if your shit is good , you don't need more than those 3 things.
If your shit sucks, there is no marketing crutch to prop you up.
But that marketing crutch doesn't really exist any more anyway
the warnings of john carter hit twitter 15 minutes after the movie pre-screened.