I want to talk today about how can we, the film community use online tools to build audience for our films. how can things like blogs, facebook, meet up, twitter, etc matter to filmmakers building an audience and trying to raise funds. What are some success stories, what are some cool things, how are people using them and what can we learn? And give one very practical example of something we are doing at TFI But keep in mind it’s not about the tools, but what you can do with them. An old marketing story says that people never go to the store to buy a hammer. They go because they want to hang a picture, or build a house – to do something much more important that the tool just allows. So what can these tools help us accomplish?
Tribeca All Access - Online Tools, making money and building audiences for film - Presentation Transcript
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65 employees (2006)
DISINTERMEDIATED Rise of the Crowd
Pew Research Center
Usage by Age Group US and Int’l Growth
My TweetStats by Day and Hour
Participatory A Conversation
Building Community Friends & Fans
www.foureyedmonsters.com
CrowdSourcing Turning Community into Funders
Participatory II. A Viral Video Conversation
Remix Culture Mash-Ups and Sampling – Participatory Cinema
Multi-Platform Agnostic and Viral
Free
Free World
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Play Festival
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
They sell to audience
Who pays for film
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
They sell to audience
Who pays for film
$ to distributor
$ to filmmakers
$ to investors
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
They sell to audience
Who pays for film
$ to distributor
$ to filmmakers
$ to investors
Everyone is happy
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
They sell to audience
Who pays for film
$ to distributor
$ to filmmakers
$ to investors
Everyone is happy
MYTH
Old World $
Play Festival
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s)
advance
percentage of revenues
They sell to audience
Who pays for film
$ to distributor
$ to filmmakers
$ to investors
Everyone is happy
Old World $ -- Reality
Play Festival Maybe
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s) Maybe – forever, everywhere
advance $0 - $15,000 avg
percentage of revenues 30% - 60% after expenses
They sell to audience Hopefully
Who pays for film If theaters book it or buyers buy
$ to distributor But,
$ to filmmakers
$ to investors
Everyone is happy
Old World $ -- Reality
Play Festival Maybe
Sell to Distributor/Broadcaster (s) Maybe – forever, everywhere
advance $0 - $15,000 avg
percentage of revenues 30% - 60% after expenses
They sell to audience Hopefully
Who pays for film If theaters book it or buyers buy
$ to distributor But,
Marketing, P& A, staffing,
cross-collateralization,
fees, delivery,
Old World $ -- Reality
$0 to filmmakers
$0 to investors
No one is happy…and you don’t even own your film anymore
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Free (Plus fee)
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.” Stewart Brand at the first Hackers ' Conference in 1984
Why Pay?
When Copies are free, you need to sell things that can’t be copied. Kevin Kelly, Better Than Free
Like What?
IMMEDIACY
PERSONALIZATION
PERSONALIZATION
INTERPRETATION
AUTHENTICITY
EMBODIMENT
PATRONAGE
ACCESSIBILITY
FINDABILITY
Recap
Have a website for you and your films
Blog, tweet and join the conversation
Build your fan base
Use them to raise funds, to promote you and your film
Use Viral Video
Consider value of allowing remix
Be multiplatform
Remember what will make people pay $ for your film
My presentation at the 2009 Tribeca All Access kick more
My presentation at the 2009 Tribeca All Access kick-off. I don't tend to use the notes, and just speak, so these notes don't show everything I say, but it gives you a sense. Also, most of the videos are linked, and I show one video in its entirety (Thru-You). I think I've given credit to all stats, sources, images and films but let me know if you see something missing. Also, this presentation assumes a mixed audience - some very tech, some not at all, so it will be basic stuff for those of you really into this arena. less
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