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RSS:- Here’s what you risk when you delay audience engagement… May 17, 2012 ADM
- How to bounce back from a failed Kickstarter campaign? May 16, 2012 ADM
- PMD Proverbs | Do NOT crowdfund for your entire budget! May 15, 2012 ADM
- Social media is the new AM radio… May 14, 2012 ADM
- Go analog…mainly because it’s better than digital… May 13, 2012 ADM
- What do you look for in a workshop? May 11, 2012 ADM
- Things you need to be doing every day as an independent filmmaker… May 10, 2012 ADM
- The curse of too much free time… May 9, 2012 ADM
- Increasing the threshold for Facebook likes… May 8, 2012 ADM
- It’s all about the story and the dialogues, timeless elements which don’t change… May 7, 2012 ADM
Category Archives: Documentary
Marketing and Distributing Your Indie Film or Doc…Like a Carpenter
I’m often asked by clients why I don’t prefer automating elements of my marketing function for their films or docs. Why I devote countless hours to achieving a kind of rhythm with their projects’ marketing in a more “manual” – … Continue reading
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*Further* differences between Canadian and American indie filmmakers…
Yesterday’s post about the differences between Canadian and American filmmakers garnered a couple of interesting replies at the blog. It would seem there are more than just a handful of people who’ve been thinking about the same issue and … Continue reading
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#BLOODSWORTH | Gregory Bayne puts on yet *another* Kickstarter clinic…
UPDATE: Click to RT! I’m an abiding fan of Gregory Bayne’s craft and have been so for nearly a year’s time, ever since Sundance 2011. Over the year I’ve known him, he seems to go from strength to strength to…strength, yet … Continue reading
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Characteristics of the “Democratized Filmmaking Era” – Part 2
The other day I was discussing the perils of the “democratized filmmaking era.” I outlined a few scenarios how the mere fact of having unlimited choice or unfettered access to contents, technology, and gear wasn’t necessarily all it was cracked … Continue reading
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The PMD | Problems with taking public funding from The Man
My clients know I’m not a huge advocate of financing your film or documentary project through soft money sources. It’s typically not a strategy I include in a list of … Continue reading
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The PMD | It’s *not* all in the numbers…
I was enjoying this little Christopher Penn update the other day, a post on metrics and how your film’s story isn’t always to be found strictly in the numbers. Penn describes how absolute figures, on the face of them, aren’t … Continue reading
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The PMD | Finding the Focus of Your Marketing Efforts…
Self-marketing and self-distributing an independent project of any kind – be it a feature film or a documentary – isn’t for the timid. The enormous volumes of time needed to complete even the simplest of tasks always threaten to yank … Continue reading
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The PMD | Are you an indie film community person? A quick checklist…
Indie film is a full-on community effort. We’re all in this together and the rising tide raises all our boats. The better you do, the better I do, so if you’re strictly in the game for self-interest that alone should … Continue reading
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The PMD | Why your film might be underperforming in the marketplace…
Why is that some filmmakers post stuff garnering hundreds — and sometimes, thousands — of views on places like YouTube or Vimeo, while others can post would-be superior material which scores almost zero attention with a film’s target demographic? What … Continue reading
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Your PMD As Your CCO = Chief Content Officer
If you’re into online marketing at all you might have already come across the new-fangled Chief Content Officer’s (CCO’s) position. It was a relatively new designation created over the past couple of years to address the critical need for those … Continue reading →