Please Watch My Film

Filmmaking is a big business, and thousands of films are made every year. Unfortunately, we only see a fraction of those because they never truly find their audience. You don't need a Hollywood size budget or a Tinseltown featured cast to get your film seen, you just need to know how to market it properly and that's where we come in. The Please Watch My Film Podcast is dedicated to helping filmmakers market their film projects so they find an audience and get scene. So join us every Friday for Film Marketing Friday and we'll be happy to show you how.

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4. Build an Audience Avatar for Your Film

Before you get started creating marketing collateral for your film, you need to build an audience avatar. Building an audience avatar for your film is an important part of the marketing process. This is going to be one of those pinnacles of your marketing research that will help you design targeted marketing campaigns so you can ideally get your film seen by the audience that most appreciate it. But not everyone knows how to build an avatar of their target audience. We tend to get the idea of cr...

Feb 22, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3. Yes, Your Indie Film Needs Its Own Website

As we learned in the last episode of Please Watch My Film having a website for your independent film is crucial. Not only does it give you a digital space where you have full control over your content and the user experience, but it gives you a hub to send everyone to. Websites really are a crucial part of your indie film marketing strategy. And if you're working on a project right now and don't have a website, it's time to make one right now. In this episode of Please Watch My Film we're talkin...

Feb 15, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2. Deconstructing the Blair Witch Project Marketing Campaign

The Blair Witch Project (1999) is one of the most famous film marketing campaigns. In fact, it was the first viral film marketing campaign which is why it's the perfect first case study for us to tackle. In this episode of Please Watch My Film , we're going to be breaking down the marketing campaign that took a $60,000 marketing campaign and turned it into the most profitable independent film that brought in $248-million worldwide. We are going to be doing a review of the overall campaign, talki...

Feb 15, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1. Intro to Film Marketing

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Please Watch My Film where we do a quick-and-easy introduction to film to get the ball rolling. We're chatting about why film marketing is so important to your project and your overall career, then covering the very basics of how you can work towards successfully marketing your next film. This is an introductory episode that doesn't necessarily dive too deep on any one concept, but it does answer a number of burning film marketing questions, including: Why is ...

Feb 15, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Trailer

Film marketing is highly undervalued but is one of the most important aspects of independent film making... at least if you want your film to be seen. But filmmakers time and time again forget about it, set it aside or simply don't have the budget. While I love film, I love filmmakers and I think there are some amazing indie pieces that deserve to find their audience. So, I've set out on an little adventure called the Please Watch My Film podcast where I'm going to teach filmmakers how to market...

Feb 12, 2020•5 min

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