SimplyScripts Discussion Board
Blog Home - Produced Movie Script Library - TV Scripts - Unproduced Scripts - Contact - Site Map
ScriptSearch
Welcome, Guest.
It is March 28th, 2024, 3:33am
Please login or register.
Was Portal Recent Posts Home Help Calendar Search Register Login
Please do read the guidelines that govern behavior on the discussion board. It will make for a much more pleasant experience for everyone. A word about SimplyScripts and Censorship


Produced Script Database (Updated!)
One Week Challenge - Who Wrote What and Writers' Choice.


Scripts studios are posting for award consideration

Short Script of the Day | Featured Script of the Month | Featured Short Scripts Available for Production
Submit Your Script

How do I get my film's link and banner here?
All screenplays on the simplyscripts.com and simplyscripts.net domain are copyrighted to their respective authors. All rights reserved. This screenplaymay not be used or reproduced for any purpose including educational purposes without the expressed written permission of the author.
Forum Login
Username: Create a new Account
Password:     Forgot Password

SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board    Discussion of...    Things you are looking for  ›  PR, Marketing, and Distribution
Users Browsing Forum
No Members and 6 Guests

 Pages: 1
Recommend Print
  Author    PR, Marketing, and Distribution  (currently 624 views)
George Willson
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 9:39pm Report to Moderator
Of The Ancients


Doctor who? Yes, quite right.

Location
Broken Arrow
Posts
3591
Posts Per Day
0.51
I have come to a determination...in order to make a movie you need a bunch of things, but these are the main ones:

A screenplay: I can write these. No problem.
Director: Still not a problem. I can actually do this too.
Producer: As in someone who brings it all together and can get the story from paper to product filling in all the little details that the director has nothing to do with. Still not a problem.

So I've decided that I have the ability to make a product...but then I get into a bind.

PR, Marketing, and Distribution: A completed film is pointless without people seeing it. No matter how good the script is, no one will invest in it without the potential of a return and to get any returns, you've got to get it in theatres and DVD, etc. My question to everyone out there is how to do this.

I know we have a variety of different people on this board from everywhere and at every stage. Anyone know anything about getting those cans of gold out in front of the public?

And I know about festivals, but the percentage of films released that have gone through festivals and those that haven't is upended. Most films we see have never seen a festival. I'm wondering how they go straight from post-production into the public eye.

And it sucks I came up with this one day before the lockdown...


Logged Offline
Site Private Message
dogglebe
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 9:44pm Report to Moderator
Guest User



Make your movie and submit it to the film festivals.  If it's good, people will contact you.


Phil
Logged
e-mail Reply: 1 - 3
Old Time Wesley
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 10:05pm Report to Moderator
Old Timer


Location
Ontario, Canada
Posts
2908
Posts Per Day
0.38
The reason they get straight into a cinema is because they're working for a big company who spends millions. But a lot of films (The ones that do well go to festivals we just never hear about it)

I think we need festivals and the internet to market our projects, a professional looking website always helps as well.


Practice safe lunch: Use a condiment.
Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 2 - 3
George Willson
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 11:25pm Report to Moderator
Of The Ancients


Doctor who? Yes, quite right.

Location
Broken Arrow
Posts
3591
Posts Per Day
0.51
Well, I do understand that the company distributing the film has the millions and spends that on the ads and trailers and campaigning for the film. But it isn't just the films made by the big studios with the millions that get a straight to theatre release.

Take Star Wars, for example. This film was made entirely on George Lucas's budget but had a distribution deal through 20th Century Fox. Lucas refused to allow 20th Century Fox to fund any part of the film since he didn't want their producers to be able to cut on it since it becomes partly theirs. He had this deal set up in advance before he was shooting and Fox set a release date and a schedule he had to keep to in order for it to be released on time. However, Lucasfilm was the company that actually made the film. It was "20th Century Fox Presents a Lucasfilm Production of a George Lucas Film". Pixar was making their own films, but releasing them through Disney.

If you check out a lot of films, they are made by smaller companies and yet released through the larger, older companies. We as writers hope that someone will pick up our script and make a movie out of it, but once the movie is made, it seems it still needs to be picked up by someone else making the sale of the script only one hurdle of a larger process. It almost seems that the distribution deal would be a sweeter slice of the cake.


Logged Offline
Site Private Message Reply: 3 - 3
 Pages: 1
Recommend Print

Locked Board Board Index    Things you are looking for  [ previous | next ] Switch to:
Was Portal Recent Posts Home Help Calendar Search Register Login

Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post polls
You may not post attachments
HTML is on
Blah Code is on
Smilies are on


Powered by E-Blah Platinum 9.71B © 2001-2006