distribution

film 4 late

4od

bfi

film four


before a feature film

not as popular

warp?


Perhaps my main distribution, and my most safest and obvious choice is on the internet, with sites such as...

http://www.shortsinternational.com/html/about.htm
This site offers people the chance to show their short movies to audiences from the United States, Europe and Asia in all different formats such as cinema, on demand television, phones, online to ipads. It is apparently the worlds leading short movie entertainment with a very large catalogue of short movies.


This website and company offers a good chance for unknown directors work to be shown, there being a submission page in which you can download a submission form, if they select your film they send you a license agreements that requires exclusive distribution rights over the licensing period and a detailed breakdown of the delivery materials that they require.

I think this website is a good way of showing my short film if I chose to show it as it gives a chance to people who don't have as good of a chance as well known short film directors.

A book... On Short Films... Part 4

Resources....






Atom.com-   Originally founded in 1998, offering original short subject films, animations and series by independent creators.  BUT   it was later bought by MTV Networks, making it more comedy based. removing most of the indie films.... bad times.



bmw films- "The BMW film series, The Hire was a series of eight short films (averaging about ten minutes each) produced for the Internet in 2001 and 2002. A form of branded content, all eight films featured popular filmmakers from across the globe, starred Clive Owen as the "Driver", and highlighted the performance aspects of various BMW automobiles." - Wikipedia.


ifilm- was an online archive of short films and movie trailers, until it was later bought and rebranded as the online site of Spike.

Short TV- http://www.shortstv.com/






























http://www.v2.nl/archive/works/the-new-venue




StudentReel.com
britishfilmcommission
sundance
summer shorts
the film council
the first film fund
mainestream.nu
urban chillers












This is a good website for new and upcoming directors of short films, giving them a chance.

A book.... on Short Films... Part 3

Contemporary Film-makers and Shorts Production... ... ...


SHORT FILMS = A Creative Space               Well that definitely counts for me anyway.


The realisation is that funding is awful and most don't make money from making short films.
But that won't stop me from making them.

Getting the film shown in a "good" place is equally as difficult. Television, the different film festivals and the new digital age (internet) has proved to be useful to wannabe short film directors wanting to show their creations.

Advice... show iniative.... the company Levi supported film festivals and started to show short films on monitors at their flagship London Store after seeing a link between short films and people who buys its products. Levi's supported the production of four short films with Alliance Atlantis Reading. Levi's said the short films should be commercially viable and shown in cinemas, not just seen as a cultural product. They were successfully released with features and were shown on virgin airlines and one even helped to open Film Four.


Conclusion... Keep at it, keep commited... short films are essential for the future development of the moving image and of film-makers.

Film Campaigns

I decided to look at the film 'Bridget Jones' and its campaign to advertise it and its products. It was very interesting to look at as it linked well and was very cleverly thought out. The way the book then film, soundtrack and online website and competitions looked inspired me to make sure I had a particular audience that would recognise my products and I wanted to make sure it had a running theme (box-heads) that was similar to bigger films with larger budgets.

Technological Determinism Theory

My journey.. through technology.

Christmas to do list.

• Questionnaire - primary (you have gathered yourself) and secondary (research from other places) - norfolk and norwich council census results
• Story boards, drawn layout plans
• Test shots, angles, filming ideas
• Link everything back to target audience
• Examples on most posts of films, photos, sound clips, sound
• Focus group!!! - draw out your plans yourself, then get a person of your focus group to right notes and comments on it, film them speaking
• Hyperlinks on the side of main blog page

Research of existing products.

general analysis
technical - how they created it
meaning behind what you see
target audience
how it can be related to my own product