Comments on: What Makes A Good FIlm ‘Package’?

By: Stacey Parks

Stacey Parks — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:17:17 +0000

Like which films are you referring to?

By: Steve Felt

Steve Felt — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:23:19 +0000

How would you explain all the horror films with no names attached that have made $50million plus?

By: Stacey Parks

Stacey Parks — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:00:05 +0000

@Barry, Thanks for the head’s up so I could fix it

Stacey

By: Barry Hill

Barry Hill — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:16:55 +0000

Your opening line is NOT a sentence.

If you’ve ever gone out and tried to raise financing for your film before you know how important your film’s ‘package’ can be.

This taints the entire piece.

Barry

By: Mario A. Lopez

Mario A. Lopez — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:25:36 +0000

Where can I find a packager?

Thr First in the Annals of Animation Cinema:
Mel Gibson’s “Apacolypto” and “2012″ have made the world keenly aware of the Mayan civilization. My film is based on the most important legend of the Mayan civilization. It’s the first to bring the Mayan World (in animation), to the Silver Screen. Voice-overs by Hispanic Superstars (e.g. Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez), music score by Latin legends such as Carlos Santana. Coca-Cola corp. asked for a proposal… I need a Packager! Can anyone help me? I have the whole project, ready to go; just need packing.

By: Janine

Janine — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:25:54 +0000

In your film package do you need artwork and what types of artwork do you need? And who are the people that supply that. Do you have names?

By: Jeffrey B. Palmer

Jeffrey B. Palmer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:03:45 +0000

Brett, I’ll be checking out your link. It’s a viable way to go, but not for the faint of heart.

I took a similar route with my first film “On the Fringe” which was produced and available on DVD and my current project/screenplay “The Sleeping Deep” which at this point is slowly, slowwwwwly, making its way into the hands of Hollywood outsiders, insiders and the like.

We shot some pre-viz scenes and a promotional teaser that can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/yze3ohc and my blog http://tinyurl.com/nnjzc2. With a 1-sheet, custom box art, posters, mailers, magnets and biz cards, I’m still in the throes of battle – and not yet ready to back down. It’ll take a while before I find a home for it, but I’m feeling good about my prospects. Stay tuned.

Great topic!

Cheers,
Jeff

By: brett sorem

brett sorem — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:48:06 +0000

my name is Brett Sorem, I am going through producing and directing my first feature length film. I am just about ready to pitch my project. I shot a trailer for the feature film that you can check out here. http://www.vimeo.com/user2889023 I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to promote the trailer online besides youtube to get it seen or more hits. also would love feedback on the work. There are two versions of the trailer and a behind the scenes featurette. This may also be a go example for some people out there trying to get ahead of the game. thanks

-Brett Sorem

By: John W. Bosley

John W. Bosley — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:24:56 +0000

I really like this post. Especially the part about niche market and SM. No one would think that SM and the number of followers you have on places like Twitter would be seen as assets a year or two years ago. Everything is changing. I remember a few weeks ago, when I was in Office Max, at the counter, that I saw a magazine that asked if Ashton Kutcher was the next Media Mogul. It stated that Pepsi and another company (can’t remember the other one) was going to be some sort of sponser for his SM profiles. I didn’t read the article, but it stuck out to me.

The filmmaker who made “Panic Attack” earned himself 1 million views on YouTube and a directing gig with Sam Rami. (some of this is probably marketing spin, but still good marketing spin).

More people hear about a film on the internet than at a film festival, so seeing your SM profile as an asset to leverage as part of your film package is great. But only having followers, friends and fans means nothing if you don’t know how to utilize it/interact with them.

Niche is great because a film with no name casts but speaks to an issue or topic of great interest to a fan base that are huge supporters of the content become a crowdsourcing version of marketing.

My question: In a person’s biz plan, how should they discuss both of these in the best, most concise way that don’t just sound generalized.

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:06:22 +0000

What do you mean by digital partners? Do you mean a website like Dailymotion.com or Crackle has ponied up production monies, adspace and promotion for the film?

Or something else entirely?

Digital ‘partner’ could mean anything – I mean to be honest YouTube could be a digital partner…or for that matter, Bitorrent.