Recent content by JoeC

The flaw in the plan was in making a film that doesn't have a target audience that can be easily reached online. Marketing is expensive, so if you can find a way to target your audience you'll get more bang for the buck. Also, I think comedies are a hard sell. I learned a lot about marketing...

Glad you liked it. To answer your questions: 1) A name actor would have been out of budget - but I agree, it would have helped with marketing. I think Jack Black would have been perfect for the role, but this was financed with my own money. I literally spent every dollar I had saved up...

So far Amazon createspace has sold the most - but its not really all that great either. The film is also on Distrify and Indieflix.

You are referring to Derek Haugen - he's the lead actor in my film as well as the web series Tumbleweed. I'm the writer/director. I'd have to go through all the receipts - but production costs were purchases of camera, lighting gear - as well as rentals. Location fees, production insurance...

My Vimeo Pro account has a couple of weeks left - and I don't feel it's worth it to renew as it costs $200 - and only generated $20 in sales. For the remainder of it's time on Vimeo, I'm making my comedy feature "Assisted Fishing" free to view - click rent - then click "Have discount code?" -...

Here's my email chain to Distribber: They eventually did send me a paypal payment for the $1994. I never saw the hard drive again. -Joe

Making a film, particularly your first film, has many benefits besides monetary gain. Very few become profitable, but the experience and lessons learned and confidence gained by doing it has great value. I think the money is better spent than going to film school. As far as distribution...

PRweb is paid - it cost $200 to publish the release. I've tried facebook ads and youtube sponsored trailers - and the press release seems to have been the better deal on making impressions. -Joe

I've been looking for ways to promote my film "Assisted Fishing" I used a company PRweb and was happy to see that Yahoo news picked up the story. http://news.yahoo.com/assisted-fishing-now-available-dvd-film-makes-sport-174627368.html I've also submitted to Distribber for iTunes and Hulu -...

I'm the writer/director/producer of the zany indie comedy film, "Assisted Fishing". Assisted Fishing An immature moron dreams of beating his lifelong rival in a big fishing tournament. In order to get the money for the entrance fee, he takes a job watching over the wacky residents of a...

I'm wondering how effective these ads are. I'm selling my film "Assisted Fishing" on Blu-Ray and DVD from the website. I've been running several different ads on facebook for a few days now - their stats say i've had over a million impressions and 112 clicks - but no sales resulted from this...

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Was this it? http://www.distributorreportcard.com/ -Joe www.assistedfishing.net

---I had to add a ton of reverb to the cello to hide the ugly sound transitions between shots. You could get away with just taking one good take of the audio playing and letting that audio play throughout. Just because you cut the video, you don't have to take the audio with it. Especially...

"I'll Be in My Trailer" by John Badham. The subtitle is "The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors" It really deals with the most important part of directing - dealing with actors. Knowing your shots, etc is basic technical skills - and needs to be learned - but the wisdom of knowing how...