Video Killed The Indie Film Star?
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It wasn’t all that long ago that the way every young director hoping to make his or her mark would make a short film and send it out on the festival circuit.
Of course, that was before YouTube made online video mainstream. First, we saw a fair number of short films online but now, it seems, more folks are going the web-series route, to various levels of success.
The excellent Tilzy.tv have posts on two such indie webseries, CATACLYSMO and THE BICYCLIST.
“The two spent $20,000 making the web show [BICYCLIST], $30,000 making the movie, and they expect total costs to rise to $100,000 all told when the movie is marketed and distributed. That’s not much for say, a venture-backed web studio, but for folks who make a web show on weekends, it’s quite a bit of cash.”
Yup, and they’ve received fewer than 500,00 views for the series. BUT that is one hell of a lot more bang for your buck than you’ll get at a minor film festival with your short film!
These days, you’d have to be crazy to think a film fest will be your route to the big times.
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Tags: Arts, Film, Film festival, Filmmaking, movies, Short subject, Video clip, youtube
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October 31, 2008 7:36 pm
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