Last night when i was on my bed and was dreaming about making Dollars (Hey guys believe me i am the best day dreamer in the world............lolzz) from my low budget movies suddenly a point stuck in my mind about the distribution issue. As we all know that the job of distributors is to promote filmmaker’s movie doing advertising, making more film copies and deducting 35% of gross revenue straight away without thinking of poor filmmakers (Like me). Though i don’t have any detailed information about the percentage of distributors but still i have heard from many friends that the percentage is too high.
So one thing which hit my mind that why cant we setup our own distribution company?????
Though there was a time when expenses were high . Specially the cost of making copies of film. But now everything is going digital. Thanks to the technology. The biggest expense is cut off straight away. Many theatres these days are getting digital projection too. So don’t you people think it is very much easier to do the distribution?.
Now comes another question how to make a marketing and promotion plan?? Specially with low budget? Well this is the question of which i completely have no answer. Except for one foolish trick and that is:
Brain storming. Well if i have no or small amount of money i will do brain storming with my friends. I will also like to take help from university friends which are doing specialization in Marketing. Friends can always be helpful.
Though the profits might be lower if we distribute our self but still all will be our and no distributor will be exploiting us. Just what we need is a marketing GURU. More over you have a chance to make friends at many filmmaking forums where you can find very friendly and nice people. Like www.indietalk.com, www.filmmaking.net, www.allthingszombie.com (For horror movies)
People here are very friendly and can support a lot in making a marketing and promotion strategy.
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