Charli
10-14-2006, 07:50 AM
I thought we'd start a discussion on how to market your short outside of this
online community. Some of you will want to see how much mileage you can
acheive with your short, I say more power to you, but you need a plan.
Below are rough ideas for some of the shorts:
MORNING AFTER - hire an actress in black high heels dressed closely to the
character in the short, have a pamplet with the short's info in her hand and have
her approach guys only and say, "Are you Bobby? I'm looking for Bobby. You
should see what I did to him in this six minute short titled, "Morning After."
and if the guy is named Bobby, then she says, "I killed you in the six minute
short, 'Morning After' you should have known better." Then she walks off and
heads toward another guy.
**
REKINDLED - hire a guy dressed in black pants, no shirt if the festival allows it,
otherwise a wifebeater shirt, he must be able to sing, and have him approach
girls with a burned CD of the song, "Rekindled" -
"Do you know there's only one girl for me? I would die for her, watch, 'Rekindled'
a six minute short." he hands them the cd, sings the song as he leaves.
**
HALFWAY - hire a female model and have her dress in a burlap sack with the
title of the short, "Halfway" front and back, put some bubble gum in tiny
burlap bags with the title of the film in front and have the model give them
away as she says, "Have you ever been in that inbetween place, neither
here nor there, and you're stuck halfway? Watch this six minute short and
take the gum, you'll need it to calm you afterwards."
**
Well, these are just ideas. Anyone else have some ideas of how to market
some of the short films you've just seen?
online community. Some of you will want to see how much mileage you can
acheive with your short, I say more power to you, but you need a plan.
Below are rough ideas for some of the shorts:
MORNING AFTER - hire an actress in black high heels dressed closely to the
character in the short, have a pamplet with the short's info in her hand and have
her approach guys only and say, "Are you Bobby? I'm looking for Bobby. You
should see what I did to him in this six minute short titled, "Morning After."
and if the guy is named Bobby, then she says, "I killed you in the six minute
short, 'Morning After' you should have known better." Then she walks off and
heads toward another guy.
**
REKINDLED - hire a guy dressed in black pants, no shirt if the festival allows it,
otherwise a wifebeater shirt, he must be able to sing, and have him approach
girls with a burned CD of the song, "Rekindled" -
"Do you know there's only one girl for me? I would die for her, watch, 'Rekindled'
a six minute short." he hands them the cd, sings the song as he leaves.
**
HALFWAY - hire a female model and have her dress in a burlap sack with the
title of the short, "Halfway" front and back, put some bubble gum in tiny
burlap bags with the title of the film in front and have the model give them
away as she says, "Have you ever been in that inbetween place, neither
here nor there, and you're stuck halfway? Watch this six minute short and
take the gum, you'll need it to calm you afterwards."
**
Well, these are just ideas. Anyone else have some ideas of how to market
some of the short films you've just seen?