Mod Maddy Flaherty
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There are some easy and FREE platforms that you can post your content onto and then share a link to your friends/family/social medias etc. for them to watch.
The one I’ve found most useful for video content is Youtube. You can receive a lot of engagement from it, likes, comments and you can even view the watch time on your videos which can give you some insight into whether you really grabbed the viewers attention enough to get them to watch all the way to the end.
A downside perhaps is that you don’t gain any profit from Youtube unless you are monetized through Youtube, a process that has its own criteria and set up. Yet, even if you don’t want to release the finished product onto Youtube it’s a perfect, free marketing tool for teasers and trailers!
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Back in May 2020 I had finished my final University Short Film, ‘Would You?’ and posted it onto Youtube. Having put so much effort and work into it I wanted to push it out further then I had with my previous ones and one way I did that was with https://filmfreeway.com/festivals I entered my short film into a tone of free/really cheap festivals and hoped for the best! I entered around 30 categories within 24 festivals and came out with 7 Laurels from ‘official selection’ to ‘finalist’. Doing this did help push out my film a bit more and made people notice it more purely because it had Laurels on it.
If you do get any Laurels 100% put them on your posters and thumbnails because it presents a look that makes people want to click on your short film, poster, link etc. Will help push people to watch it.
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Personally I don’t know a lot about going to Netflix etc. but for Film Festivals I use https://filmfreeway.com/festivals it’s got so many filters to give you the exact kind of festivals you’re looking for whether that’s free ones, scriptwriting, best director etc. and you can always check on your submissions progress! Plus its free and you can submit as many times to as many festivals as you want!
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The very first lockdown meant I couldn’t film re-shoots for my 3rd year short film, luckily I was able to work with what I had and complete it from home with the editing software I had. Since then finding ways to create at home proved to be a challenge.
With the restrictions, making short films was on hold so I turned more to photography. Lockdown actually gave me time to really improve my Lightroom skills and overall, helped me find way to be more creative with what I had. Eventually, I started making fake ads for cereal, boba drinks etc. anything to keep me motivated and that kept me creating.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKo92VzHQaE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Lockdown gave me plenty of time to write scripts and draw up some storyboards and hopefully I’ll be able to actually film them soon!