Making an Internet video is tough and making a good Internet video is almost impossible. Find out Funny Or Die’s process for creating videos from the people who make them. Sit down with writers, directors and producers from Funny Or Die’s illustrious pool of employees to learn how they come up with ideas, execute them and then make sure they get views. Just like your favorite days in grade school, there will be videos to subsidize this educational experience.
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SXSW 2012: Funny Or Die’s How To Succeed In Videos By Trying
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The Ihnatko Almanac 29: A Temple to the Graphic Noveliste
This week, Andy and Dan discuss whether or not we have an obligation to support local, independent record stores, bookstores, and comic shops. They also talk about a Kickstarter project from Cerebus creator, Dave Sim.
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The Ihnatko Almanac 27: Zeppo Kardashian
Andy and Dan discuss Kevin Smith, the relevance of film criticism, and more.
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SXSW 2012: Empowering Filmmakers: Marketing/Distribution Keys
Increasingly, filmmakers are becoming directly involved in the distribution and marketing of their own films. Veteran marketing strategist, Marc Schiller, and distribution specialist, Richard Abramowitz, will share their unique experiences working with directors and producers on the release of their films. The session will highlight their experiences and techniques collaborating on such films as the Academy Award nominated film, Exit Through The Gift Shop and the box office hit, Senna. The discussion will present specific tips and strategies that filmmakers can employ during the distribution and marketing process to increase success in the box office and digital release.
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SXSW 2012: Screw the Big Screen, We Have the Web!
As the battle between web and TV grows vicious, interactive and multi-platform videos are born. Platforms like XBOX Live and the impending Google TV will transform tv and ads into something we’ve never before experienced. Unfortunately, there is more competition for the attention of those eyes than you can shake a stick at. Hear from Emergent Order creative director, John Papola, about the art of web video and what it takes grab attention online and go viral. John has created videos that have driven millions of views online and some that haven’t, so he knows what works and what doesn’t. Hear about the science side from successful web video entrepreneur, Jen Grogono. Jen’s latest venture, uStudio, provides a platform for distributing video on an ever expanding number of channels and sites across the web and tracking important metrics across channels to show where you are hitting it and where you are falling flat.
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SXSW 2012: The DIY on Short Film Exposure: Who’s Got This?
Many short filmmakers struggle to find an audience for their films, and very few ever get compensated for their efforts. Don’t short filmmakers deserve an opportunity to showcase their skill and talents? This panel discussion seeks to explore short filmmakers’ experiences with a new, distribution paradigm for their work, self-distribution. This is about how artists, when they think about distribution, become entrepreneurs.
These artists will describe their challenges, their victories and their engagement with this newfound distribution, in their own words. There are many options and formats: film festivals and the Internet for distribution; short film and webisodes as formats and blogging and other forms of social media as marketing tools. These panelists are filmmakers, marketers, bloggers and social media experts. They will address real concerns of filmmakers such as right protection and revenue production. The discussion will offer a template for how short filmmakers can distribute and market their films, establish themselves as artists and find their audience and contribute to the short film community.
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SXSW 2012: Festribution: Film Festivals as Distributors
Do festivals represent the future of independent film distribution? Where are the opportunities? What are the risks? This panel will explore emergent models and speculate on ways independent producers (and distributors) may leverage a robust film festival circuit for commercial exploitation. With major festivals like Sundance, sxsw and Tribeca already in the game in varying ways, it seems this will be a developing trend. Will smaller regional festivals organize to create a theatrical circuit? Can a festival brand or screening translate into viable, direct revenues for the independent film sector? Is this what festivals should be doing? This panel explores one of the most compelling new developments in the business of film festivals.
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SXSW 2012: A to Z Doc Distribution: Emphasis on E for Education
Are all film distributors equal? (Of course not!) What do the most successful distributors have in common? How can a filmmaker find out? In A to Z of Distribution (with an emphasis on ‘E’), come learn what distinguishes four of the leading documentary distributors in the marketplace: Kino Lorber, Women Make Movies, Cinema Guild and New Day. Moderated by Elizabeth Sheldon, VP of Kino Lorber, each distributor will discuss how they select films, their different paths to market, what makes each company unique, and what they all have in common (hint, hint: starts with the letter ‘E’). Whether it is a theatrical department, digital distribution, specialty collections, or a strength in reaching the college/university/library market, each of the featured distributors has survived and thrived over the decades. Come learn why, how you and your film can benefit, and what they are looking for at SXSW.
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TWiT 259: Next Stop: Gilbert, Arizona
This has to be the funniest TWIT ever. Guests Brian Brushwood, Baratunde Thurston and Felicia Day goad Leo into committing some verbal faux pas. Worth watching the video version (see link below).
On the web at http://twit.tv/259
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Film Courage interview with Donald F. Glut, November 15, 2009
Author and Filmmaker Donald F. Glut visits the Film Courage studio and why loves monster, horror, science-fiction & fantasy movies. He also shares the budget range on his 6 films, how he financed them, and why he has decided to self-distribute his latest film, Blood Scarab.
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