How to market yourself?

Hey! My name is Darby and I've been directing, writing, editing, etc. films for a while now. I've recently began working on projects for $$$. I have set up different pages on various social media sites and was wondering If anyone had any tips/tricks on how to get your name out there!

(The pages I've made are to display my work and communicate for business)

Thanks for the help!
 
I mean, one way would be to tell us about them! Link us there!


Really, it's whatever way you can directly or incidentally get people to look at you and your work.
Make a YouTube account, post videos, comment and like other people's.
Link to your social media sites wherever you go and people will stumble over them.
Keep in contact with people - make sure they know what you're doing.
 
Fantastic. You've already done well on those pages by linking them together. You might also want to use the same design through all of them. For instance, most of them have "Your Soul" as the banner, except the YouTube page. Or, your Twitter is the only one with a personal photo.
 
Directors, Writers and Editors tend to get their name out there based on the quality and success of your work. Promote your work.

Sweetie's right. I watched one of your videos - 'The Sexiest' - funny concept, lost me quickly due to the quality. (Just being honest! All of our first efforts are rough, believe me!) Make better content, learn your craft, and that in itself provides you the best promotion.

You look like you're younger in the videos, so I thought I might give you some perspective on what the next few years could be if you work at it:


My first series ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YFKYt2kWkU (Probably a freshman in high school at that point)

Halfway point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DG8NLrIJmo

Late last year, over four years later, the first two episodes of the last series I worked on recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOwVtHMzkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJcX1BonGA

There's even a huge difference from the first to second video in that last series, let alone from four years back to now. (The second video had independently recorded audio synced later - a step in filmmaking I feared and dreaded for a long time)

And finally, a cumulation of the 4+ years I used, which got me a nice scholarship to Columbia College Chicago film school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHiDQ2IStc


I hope that helps. I watched your video, and it reminded me of the quality of FPS, that first series I linked filmed over four years ago. But, I got better (and older) in that time and ended up drastically improving, thus building a Youtube audience. (Though that audience centers around my music, not my film. But the point remains the same, my first album sucked. I'm on my ninth now.)


Good luck - start creating a lot more!

Edit: I also watched your most recent music video and a video called 'The Past' - same thing holds true to my comments above. You're a long way off in your progression as a filmmaker. Just keep making more stuff!
 
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Thanks for all the input! "THE SEXIEST" & "THE PAST" are just videos I use to test the quality of my phone and test out an editing software on it. The music video "Your Soul" is my most professional video yet and was filmed with a Canon Rebel t3i and edited with Final Cut Pro. Now that I have access to these resources the quality of my videos will keep rising! Thanks again!

(Ps I'm 16 and a junior in highschool :))

Thanks for all the responses!
 
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Fantastic. You've already done well on those pages by linking them together. You might also want to use the same design through all of them. For instance, most of them have "Your Soul" as the banner, except the YouTube page. Or, your Twitter is the only one with a personal photo.

Will do!
 
How do you know I didn't create this discussion just for that reason? >;D

That was my guess at the first post, and became obvious at your second :lol:
My advice.. don't market anything that's poor quality. If you aren't getting them hooked and wanting more then you're just wasting everyones time, yours included.
 
Oh and please come by and drop some support. Just starting my career vision
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