Selling digital downloads of your film on your own
Sup yall I'm back from forty something days in Iceland wherein I wrote two feature scripts, played Basketball in the snow every day and saw Iron Sky in the cinema (visual fx were great but was pretty disappointed in the film as a whole) but yeh... I meet with Endika this week and I'll find out if he's done with the music or not...
No matter what happens.... the film will be available this summer... So I'm looking at ways to get it out there and sell it... I can always do the normal thang with DVD/BLU-RAY/ITUNES/Xbox store/Playstation Store/VOD etc....
The thing about all those is that it takes time to prep/create all the deliverables and design stuff and the like...
Since I've waited so long to be able to put HSM out I'm going to want to make it available as soon as possible without adding more months to the wait...
You probably read about what comedian Louis C.K. did with his concert film recently... I think its awesome because this approach is actually the simplest and fastest to implement as well as the cheapest for fans... cut out the middle men and marketing expenses and you can sell it for $5... NOW granted this d00d was ALREADY FAMOUS with a HUGE AUDIENCE but the execution is still tite for us nobodies....
So it seems he was using paypal and amazon payments to process his payments... and he used Amazon s3 for file hosting... things that ALL OF US can use... I mean you have to pay for Amazon s3 storage/bandwidth but you only pay for what you use... so if you sell a $5 file and it costs $0.10 in bandwidth big deal as its still a big profit...
From doing a little research DIS looks good... the combination of E-Junkie for your payment processing/shopping cart/download token stuff... Amazon s3 for file hosting as E-Junkie allows remote file hosting and hides the links as well for $18/month... and then just a host for your site... E-Junkie will host small files for low prices but when dealing with 2gb---> files it gets into the hundreds of dollars a month so that's where Amazon s3 saves the day....
E-Junkie uses Google Checkout + Paypal for payments so anyone in the world has access... I've bought stuff from aescripts before and they use E-Junkie... it was simple and fast and a good experience so that's what made me want to use it...
So as SOON as HSM is completed it will be made available for sale online as a digital download...
This is what I'm thinking...
The whole film as a 720p h.264 movie file + the whole soundtrack in 192k for $5 and perhaps a deluxe download with the film at 1080p + an extended soundtrack at 320k + behind the scenes + making of + script + alt soundtrack + more for $10
So I'm hoping the people who know about the film already will grab the deluxe version for $10 and I hope the people who never heard of me or the film but somehow come across it would take a chance for $5...
Sound like a good deal? What do you think? What would you do?
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