dude selling his movie as iphone app

[J Davis]

Bravo Alex Ferrari

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=48616

 

[ZazaCast]

I developed an app back in January for this...and it's free: http://itunes.apple.com/app/izaza/id350431297?mt=8

Original thread here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=196982

This has received a pretty good response and people all over the world have downloaded it.

 

[Jordan_S]

It's innovative. However, how many people actually enjoy watching films on the iPhone or iPod touch?

 

[Kellar42]

iPad will work.

 

[Kholi]

Been done several times before and fairly interesting. Ninety-nine cents would be split 60/40, that's a tiny amount. Fact is, though, you can't just throw material onto iTunes without some distributor that has that deal going.

And, The App Store has a lot of traffic. Still need to market it like hell, of course. I've been talking about doing this for a few months but have a marketing strategy in mind.

Whether or not it's Superseeds or another feature is the question.

 

[J Davis]

Wow Zaza, you're the original pioneer then?
I read through your thread, how has it worked out? Has it broken even and you
covered costs for developing the app?

On the Alex Ferrari thread on REDuser there is an interesting post by Jeff Kilgore.

One other tidbit to note, Apple specifically does not allow one to distribute video or audio content or media direct through the app store. Essentially they don't want the app store competing with iTunes media sales. However, streaming apps are just fine, even if the app is designed to only stream one single piece of media -- as this one currently does. Or if there are interactive elements or other aspects of the media that warrant app store distribution. Such as distributing a short film with multiple endings that the the viewer can choose, I guess.

I would think distributing through iTunes media would be far more desirable and would reach a larger audience. Was this considered at all? For the above-mentioned project I'm working on, the reason why the client is shying away from iTunes media distribution in favor of approaching it through the app store is because Apple still has a total strangle-hold on who can publish through iTunes. Of the approved publishers that we have found so far, who would be willing to publish this to iTunes, they all want way too much of the proceeds... But I think many are being stand-offish at this point because we're not much past storyboards and concept art right now. We shoot in October.