any details or info would be good
Sure... You can sell popcorn and other concession items, you can be a projectionist or a ticket seller/taker, or you can be a porter and spend all your time cleaning.
alright so what if you travelled around and actually got your film showing and people watching?
That process is called four walling, and while it's difficult there have been people who have had success with it. There's a site (http://www.tugg.com/) that's set up to help with it; they let you pre-sell tickets to a screening in a method similar to crowdfunding, where the screening only gets booked if you hit a minimum number of ticket sales. That can help a lot with the logistics of getting booked and guaranteeing you're not going to lose money on most screenings - but it doesn't really help with the most difficult part, which is finding and convincing audience members to actually commit to buying a ticket. That comes down to marketing, and it requires either a lot of time or a lot of money (or, in many cases, both) in order to be successful.
thanks thats cool. So i'm a little analogue. I guess these days a film can be sent to someone easy and you can just contact indie theatre owners?
with this site how do people see it per the theatre you are aiming at. I dont get quite how it would work
That process is called four walling, and while it's difficult there have been people who have had success with it. There's a site (http://www.tugg.com/) that's set up to help with it; they let you pre-sell tickets to a screening in a method similar to crowdfunding, where the screening only gets booked if you hit a minimum number of ticket sales. That can help a lot with the logistics of getting booked and guaranteeing you're not going to lose money on most screenings - but it doesn't really help with the most difficult part, which is finding and convincing audience members to actually commit to buying a ticket. That comes down to marketing, and it requires either a lot of time or a lot of money (or, in many cases, both) in order to be successful.
Well, yes, that's the idea - if you don't get distribution where the distributor is the one doing (and paying for) the marketing, then you have to do the marketing yourself. If you don't do any marketing then no one will know about your film, and if they don't know about it there's no chance they're going buy a ticket or download it, and something like Tugg won't be of much use.
Or if you do the legwork to get the buzz then the distributor will come if thats what you want