studio.pebble

ITVS gives three lists of various promotional strategies for the documentary-oriented filmmaker. Most of it’s pretty obvious, which is great because it’s usually the obvious I tend to forget.

One of the more interesting suggestions:

• 5. Consider allowing Internet users to remix or “mash up” parts of your film, or create their own trailers for it. This adds their perspective to the work and, ideally, helps it reach a broader audience.[1. ITVS: http://www.itvs.org/producers/digitalinitiative/fieldreport/topfive.html]

The post also has quite a few case studies with successful filmmakers and their projects, the most compelling of which I found to the discussion of What We Got with Brad Lichtenstein mainly becuase it deals with the former point in a compelling manner.

around the web for September 10th:

• NYFA Interactive – New York Foundation for the Arts –
• THE TAQWACORES –
• NW Documentary –

around the web for February 18th:

• Tools & Utilities for filmmakers – filmmaking files and forms
• Film Festival Today – Resources – Grants –
• Australian Film Commission – FilmingInAustralia – A-Z Budgets – film budget examples
• Michigan State University Libraries – Film Grants – list of filmmaking grants

around the web for December 1st through February 9th:

• Popurls Clone using WordPress | WordPress – WP Theme, Plugin, Resource –
• popurls® | popular urls to the latest web buzz –
• Sundance Documentary Film Program (DFP) –
• WordPress Plugin Database –
• Revive | Extending WordPress Beyond the Blog –
• Aviary – Creation on the fly –
• How Web Media is Usurping Old Media – Music, Video, More – ReadWriteWeb –
• KarmaBanque :: what goes around, comes around –
• PHPmotion :: free video sharing script – free youtube clone – free youtube script – free video sharing software – you tube clone –
• QIK | Streaming video right from your phone –
• A fair use primer for online content creators –
• Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange –
• HOWTO: Have Multiple Users Share an iTunes Library on One Machine –
• film action oregon –
• http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ – see what you would look like as someone or something else
• Blabberize.com! – Blabberize Your Pictures – make your photos talk for free
• rsizr – intelligent image resizing – free intelligent image resizing
• Grouptivity – mre for your "email this" link
• Alternative Energy .com – alternative energy social community
• Photo Widgets and Slideshows – Good Widgets – widgets
• Our Stories – everyone can share their stories
• StoryCorps –
• Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program | HOME – film scores for students films from student composers
• 10 MPH }{ A Documentary Film }{ DIY –
• RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters – RSS tutorial
• The Conversations Network » Welcome to The Conversations Network –
• Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. – share screen captures instantly
• ResearchChannel –
• COVERITLIVE.COM – Home – live blogging software
• Documentary Filmmakers? Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use — Publications — Center for Social Media at American University – Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for Documentary Filmmakers
• From Here to Awesome » 10 features – 10 shorts – 10 vitrual panels –
• Propellerhead Software – free Teaching music with Reason, distributed under a Creative Commons license
• Filmtrailer.dk – De Unge Ã?r trailer – trailer for new film written by Lars von Trier

around the web for November 29th through November 30th:

• artforum.com – art magazine
• Kiva.org – Loans that change lives – micro loans to alleviate poverty
• The Business of Documentaries | Studio Daily – video on making a successful documentary