Internet download

[maverickstunts]

Has anyone gone the route of putting their movie, short or content up on the web for sale?

[JY_Blue]

i've researched it some. what angle of it are you looking to explore?

i've heard rightcart.com is an excellent e-commerce service that allows individuals to sell digital downloads.

[maverickstunts]

We are producing a series ostensibly for internet download. What we are getting is some extremely good footage that will cut together for a presentation of our work.
We can put a trailer up on google that points to a website that will sell it for, oh, say 99cents for a 3 minute download.

[Cynic821]

unless its from itunes, which is easy 1 click buy to boot, i wouldnt pay for a short, especially from outta no where.

[Paul Coleman]

Richard Halpern is one of the pioneers. He's selling his feature through Tradebit:

http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/732994

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=55925457


And Tradebit looks super cheap:

http://www.tradebit.com/register.php?package=big

:beer:

[maverickstunts]

unless its from itunes, which is easy 1 click buy to boot, i wouldnt pay for a short, especially from outta no where.

and I guess apple has you.........

[maverickstunts]

Paul,
thank you. What we are thinking about is to cut a trailer from the episodes and then direct them to a website for download. too much death and destruction to put an episode up on google for viewing. 3-4 minute episodic cliffhanger/horror genre.

[hereatrainacomin]

To me it seems too risky.

[maverickstunts]

To me it seems too risky.

what seems too risky? buying it or selling it?

[Beat Takeshi]

Selling from your site or one of those ipod movie sites?

[maverickstunts]

I will probably sell from my site. We may try another site with a short that we shot a couple of years ago.
Both tradebit and rightcart look like they do the job. This type of sale is coming for the future.
I had a friend that sold a series of cliffhangers and made a pile of cash, but he's not talking about anything other than he did it. Of course just because he said he did it, doesn't make it so. But he is driving a new hummer.

[Beat Takeshi]

The guys that did that zzyzx are making some loot on their selling online.
http://www.bluedaniel.com/zzyzx/
http://www.cafepress.com/zzyzxmovie

They used to sell the movie for $3 online and then $10 for the DVD. I don't see that on their site anymore, they may have it on their myspace, I didn't check.

[maverickstunts]

Selling from your site or one of those ipod movie sites?
I don't know how much you think is loot, but they only have 112 downloads at $2.99. I downloaded it to check it out, but haven't looked at it yet. I think that anyone that wants to make money would have to have at least 10,000 downloads at a minimum of 99 cents, and that may be hard to do without some sort of major advertising. ZZYZZX had to have cost a minimum of $10,000 to shoot and that would have been a lot of stuff free, not to mention the actors. He probably shot this as a sag experimental, but even at that had to spend $75 per day for the actors, and $100 per actor for one day. He must also pay them out of whatever he makes online.

[Paul Coleman]

Paul,
thank you. What we are thinking about is to cut a trailer from the episodes and then direct them to a website for download. too much death and destruction to put an episode up on google for viewing. 3-4 minute episodic cliffhanger/horror genre.

I think it could work. Especially since it's extreme content. There are some filmmakers selling 8 minute clips of these two girls that basically live in other people's houses secretly. Insane. Can't find the link, though.

I think shorts are a tougher sell, unless extreme.:beer:

[maverickstunts]

Yeah, I think it will be tough, but the good thing is that my partner and I come from stunt backgrounds. And both of us are directors. we are trying to tell a story and make it bad ass with suspense, killing, maiming and so forth. If it doesn't work with this one, I think we will have a great calling card for future stuff. Plus we are shooting in high def and our dp has two emmy nominations. we have the horses, hopefully we can deliver the mail.

[Beat Takeshi]

I was just going by what they told me when I asked how it was going. Loot could be anything, not saying they can buy a hummer with it or anything.

[maverickstunts]

I downloaded zzyzzx yesterday. Nearly unwatchable.......