How to Establish YourSelf As A Filmmaker
There are a lot of articles online that are focused on how to become successful as a filmmaker. But the majority of these articles sound like a fairytale. Many of these tips are not doable for an indie filmmaker because they require having great amount of money to put them in practice.
Every filmmaker knows the filmmaking processes, they need to be given an opportunity to show their creative work.This is an expensive industry and it requires funding.
How to establish yourself as a filmmaker and writer that is different from anyone else? Innovate and reinvent yourself. If you put yourself in disruption and innovation mindset, you will be successful because you will come across some opportunities that you never seen before.
Build a story that can be shopped as a TV series, video game, mobile game and book series.
Some transmedia stories got successful because they had all these elements in them.
I wrote “ The afternoon when she died” based on the same mindset back in 2014 which sold 30000 copies worldwide. My readers asked me to make a movie based on it and this is how Ghostware my sci-fi fantasy movie got created.
The movie has a franchise potential and I have a big plan for transmedia marketing. I pitched the script to film producers in 17 countries and they all either were busy with their own productions or didn’t understand the business mind behind Ghostware. I finally decided to make the film off of my own money. I will use my unique film marketing and transmedia strategy after releasing.
Building Audience
The whole point of making a successful film is to build a loyal audience. If you are writing a book and make a deal with a publisher and build an audience around it, you will be able to attract them to your TV series. A friend of mine kept pitching her TV pilot to 300 different producers in Hollywood and TV networks and they kept rejecting…
