How to Promote the Film You Made
After you go through the rigors of making the film, the promotion is the next important aspect you need to consider.
How to Promote the Film You Made
• Show your film to as many people as you can
• Schedule a screening for your friends and family
• Join film competitions. Make copies on VHS or CD ROM and send your film out.
• Show your film to teachers, local filmmakers and broadcasters. Ask advice for your next movie.
• You can use your film to apply for college that is if you'd like to study film.
• Find a mentor, show them your film and ask for advice. Bring a friend with you when you are meeting with the mentor for safety reasons.
There are also a number of film websites that allows you to upload your films. You need to make save your film into a Quicktime or Mpeg and send it to them as a File Attachment. This could provide huge exposure to your film considering websites cater to larger, global audiences. Who knows? A talent scout could have watched your film, liked it and you could be on your way to success.
Making a film requires hard work and sacrifices on your part. If you keep doing it and developing your film making desires, skills and talent, the rewards that you reap later could be enormous and totally gratifying, not only financially but also socially and emotionally. Film making could be your ticket to fame and fortune if you do it better than others.
In a speech given in Harvard University, Cecil DeMille once said, "….a director has gray hairs, because he is the fellow who dreams, and he has to make his dreams come true. That is the advantage he has over most dreamers. He has no choice. If he does not make them come true he is like the general who does not take his objective, and you know what happens to generals who don't." Steven Spielberg seconded this by saying "I dream for a living."
That is the secret to successful film making in a nutshell. Utter commitment and love of the craft. All you have to do is to take the first step and commit. Success could be just within reach. So what are you waiting for?
Written by Gwen Cuizon
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