A new direction

I have been in this conversation on LinkedIn about the next thing when Hollywood fails.

Here it is.

You, indie film maker, yes you. I am talking to you directly. Don't question, just listen up I have some important shit to say.

If you want to change the industry to one that allows you to make a movie and make a living doing it, you have to change the way you do things.

You need to be willing to work with others and not be so wrapped up in your vision and realize if it don't get made at all, your vision is worth exactly shit.

You need to work with other small indie filmmakers to make the film happen.

Ask Last Rockstar Productions who all helped with Catharsis.

You need to learn to share more.

Give everyone points, even the guy turning the screwdriver in the corner for one day. Give him half a point.

Keep 50.1% to the prodco and divvy up the rest. I think you might be surprised who would want to own half of a % of your pic if they are working on it. You don't like the numbers, find numbers that do work for you.

Find other prodcos and build your own studio facility. Brand the facility. Create a web channel filled with your content that people can subscribe to. Charge them for it. Offer them the ability to do a direct download for any format and buy a hard copy if they want for an additional fee.

Use a pressing service that will press your DVD or Blu Ray cheap based on orders.

As theater houses close, buy them or lease them or soemthing to give you a venue for theatrical showing.

As the network of these small studios build, ship your film across the internet and let them press a DVD for the theater. Share the box office. Let the showing house get 5% of box office take. Put some of the take of the Box Office to the studio. Put a % that keeps things running back the studio for every dollar made.

Don't advertise.

Use social media. Use Eventful's demand feature to find out where to ship your film.

Facebook and twitter posts will help get your fan base going and excited and let them share it and advertise for you.

If you have any celebrity power they better be talking this shit up on their social media outlets.

You want start up costs, well look around.

Do you know anyone that has this thing or that set up or that building to use.  Use your heads and use common sense. I can't do it all for you. I can just give you the road map and answer your questions if you have any.

I am a dreamer and I know I am not the only one. Come and join me and become us and let you and I and the rest of us make a better way of getting dreams made and seen by the world.

In the immortal words of Jerry Maguire (like I could get through anything without quoting something.)

Help me help you.

So let's start the discussion and the idea sharing and finding out who can do what and who is doing what and let's get you all working together to take our rights to our dreams back and make a future where the dreamers of tomorrow will have a way to bring those dreams to life.

Who's in?