Monthly Archives: August 2009

FilmTiki’s Online Week in review – Part 8

Another week, another review, a day early this time… here is what grabbed our attention this week, lovingly put together for your reading pleasure!
Is Reality TV over?
UK’s Channel 4 axes Big Brother after 11 seasons. Though the show has still been commercially viable for the channel, Channel 4 feels it is time to move on. [...]

FilmTiki’s Online Week in Review – Part 7

Our weekly online review for August 17-23 2009:
How To Kickstart A Community –an ongoing list
Christian recently posted some thoughts on community building (in German) referring to a post by Jeremiah Owyang from Web Strategist on how to kick start a community. You’ll get some good ideas there.
Weekend Box Office: ‘District 9′ Rides Buzz to [...]

The future is here: District 9 – another success for online and word-of-mouth film marketing

District 9 is a sci-fi thriller, produced by Peter Jackson, with a relatively low-budget (USD $ 30 Million), which also meant that the studio wasn’t gonna put that much money into marketing, and they were opting for a Cloverfield kinda viral/online marketing approach. And: it worked!…

FilmTiki’s Online Week in Review – Part 6

Our weekly online review for August 10-14 2009:
Social Media Campaigns for TV and Film
Laurel Papworth outlined some of his ideas for Social Media Entertainment campaigns for TV and film and helped to explain some of the differences involved between various forms of campaigns.
Films4Prizes
Continuing on from our previous post about film competitions we recently came across Film4Prizes,  it [...]

Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies’ layout teaser

The Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies‘ crew have recently uploaded their layout teaser on YouTube, as part of the film’s pitching campaign. Not only will it hopefully encourage interest from production companies, but it also provides fans with a great insight into director Dominik Hartl’s ideas behind the film.
Having seen the trailer it is not surprising [...]

FilmTiki’s online week in review – Part 5

Here is a summary of what happened this week – 3 August to 9 August 2009:
Workshop: Online Marketing for Filmmakers in Brighton
FilmTiki is planning an innovative course on our favourite subject, Online Marketing for Filmmakers. It will be organised with  the support of Skillset and centres on a workshop to be held in Brighton on [...]

Current movie competitions

For those looking for a way to fund current or future film projects I have found some very interesting competitions. Many of them award the winner(s) with cash prizes, while others offer a range of support and/or resources.
To begin with, the Smalls Showcase and Awards 2009 is currently accepting entries. They have two simple rules: [...]

Zombies Taking Over the Cyber World

Last week we received some exciting news from the Attack of the Lederhosenzombies crew that the English layout teaser is in production and will be up online soon. Meanwhile, they have also been busy finalising their online-marketing strategy for the coming weeks and the crew gave us a little report about the recent developments.
Layout teaser [...]