Selling downloads of your film on your own part 8
So now that I've got the major things worked out... where/how I'm going to sell the downloads = DPD
I know how to encode the files properly to keep the file sizes down while maximizing quality by learning from movie pirating groups and the movie torrent scene ^ ^
Most people probably look at piracy and just see thievery... but I see unsatisfied customers from Hollywood's shitty practices.... I mean their practices are great for the talentless money grubbers who run the show BUT shitty for the customers... So as always I read peoples comments in various places where movies are sold or pirated to try to get a general feel for the vibe... people love movies... they want to watch them NOW... they'll buy them IF buying them is easier than pirating them AND a reasonable price...
In my own experience I pirate stuff because I want to see it NOW but its not available... like a lot of Anime.. the torrented versions would be released YET there was no place to buy a legal digital download?! Then DVD's would come out months later... I don't want DVD's and I wanted to watch it NOW! So I torrented it ....watched it and that was that... NOW if I could have paid to download it for $5 I would have....but that wasn't available... it not the viewers fault the distributors are TOO SLOW!
Now more about unhappy customers... here's an image I found on some forum wherein people were talking about their dissatisfying Blu-Ray experiences in having to wait for commercials at the beginning of the discs...
Give someone a crappy experience that they PAID FOR and they'll spite you forever...
In indie filmmaking people talk a a lot about "self distribution" but most of the time that's not what it is as far as digital downloads go... if your film is sold on Amazon Instant Video they are the distributor...Itunes...same thing... they take a cut and THEY control your film...
Why give them a cut? And why give them control? For the brand recognition/affiliation? To save on hosting/bandwidth fees? AMAZON S3 BEEYATCH! So they can give the customer an easy and friendly buying experience? DPD HOMIE!!!
I think a growing number of people are getting sick of big brands.... big corporations... they would rather pay the artist/creator directly... so hey filmmakers let's let them do that eh?!?! ^_^
When I first sought out to sell digital downloads of HSM I just wanted Bandcamp for films... but it doesn't exist so I'm going to have to make my own little thang...
So yeh I'm going to do my best at trying to make this Heart String Marionette digital distribution work...and if it does I'll share all the details with you as I've got some tricks up my sleeve.... I've NEVER used my creativity/will power for business purposes but its about time I did so... even if it fails I'll still share the details... there is a great WAY to be found and imma try to find it!
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