Today is Blog Day. This is how it goes:
1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add [...]
I read this interesting post about Pixar and their, well, not very innovative online activities over on Scott Kirsner’s blog this morning. Yes, Pixar does do online a little bit, some flicks are available for download on iTunes for example. But they could take online so much further, for both promotional purposes as well as [...]
Just found this here and wanted to share. It’s pretty, but kinda useless. Or can you extract real information from this graphic? Still, it’s a nice idea. I wanna see a filmmaker’s overall performance like in a picture, or a studio’s performance, or just one film’s performance across various distribution channels. Maybe like a collage [...]
My feed just delivered an article to me from the BBC, titled “A hidden message from our sponsors”. This article was probably triggered by the fact that the top prize at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival went to Somers Town, directed by Shane Meadows, and financed by Eurostar (yes, the film has trains in it).
It [...]
There has been quite a bit of noise in the blogosphere about iTunes and its exclusive policies which make it hard for truly independent filmmakers to publish films with the most popular download service on the net at the moment. Of course we are incorporating all the ways to get to signed with an aggregator [...]
I just read this article on BBC online, which underlines the importance of a good trailer these days. Using trailers wisely has become highly important – the buzz a trailer creates (good or bad) truly sets up a film’s future at the box office.
The most important thing is to release and distribute the trailer widely, [...]
