Market Boost for Content Creators
If you are like me you are in lockdown in an apartment or house somewhere fooling around on the screen. Looking for something interesting to watch or write or interact with.
This is creating hardship for most of the world. For the entertainment industry it is boosting their market. Now that people have no choice, they are going to get a few months indoctrination. Or read books.
The boost isn’t only for content creators. Film and video studios big and small need equipment, stage trusses, camera dollies, lights, and crew to manage them. Teach the newbies how to rent them to get started like your other productions do.
On screen talent need makeup artists, stylists and costumers. Please, some of the people on Youtube seriously need fashion stylists. They also need voice coaches and on screen coaching. Productions also need good video editing and sound and experienced directors. No matter how good your music is, you also need a great music video.
Either way, no matter how good or bad your content is, people want something new everyday. Currently every hour, so you can have a few projects in production at once. I recommend at least 20 minutes long for videos and 1 hour long for music concerts. The short 5 to 10 minute vids and music clips are not that satisfying, not to mention too much surfing and clicking. It makes you compete with a lot more crap, so not much gets watched.
If you have something to say, say it and be original. The puffed up bla bla of something everybody else is saying will get me to avoid your channel completely. Especially repeating bad research. Instead do your own research and create content on why the other bits of bad research is bad.
Do your own research and find an original angle and new information. This will get you more more views and shares and subscribers and respect than click bait. Don’t fluff it up with bla bla, instead find interesting backstories.
Also original presentation. Not kerning or panning still photos, but actual footage and animation. If you don’t have access to original moving footage, get creative with stop motion and hand drawings. Or get your friends and family to dress up and play parts.
Stock images, music loops and footage use sparingly, if at all. Always check that stock footage and audio, animations, and music are not in anything else. At least not in the same topic and genre as your creation. The more original and engaging your stuff is, the less viewers’ and listeners’ eyes glaze over and tune out.
There are plenty of creatives and techs looking for a reel for their portfolios and resumes. Instead of playing video games and watching food youtube. Get on a discussion group and post to classifieds and make it happen.
Funding is always an issue and there never seems to be much of it. At least according to sites that publish one of two grant notices at a time. But good news is there is a professional old school hack. It will give you hundreds more funding options and get your application seen ahead of the rest.
GIgsList.info recently published The Film and Video Money Directory. 400 page directory of organizations in the USA and some international that give you money to create content. Feature length films and short films, documentaries, games, animations and even music videos.
Some grant makers listed in The Film and Video Money Directory give as much as $1,200,000 for one film. Plus no getting grants trickle fed and your application competing with the hoards. You can go straight to the sources and apply to many funders before the rush. The Film and Video Money Directory also has a list of sites and groups to recruit crew and and techs and cast talent.
The Film and Video Money Directory is the Little Black Book for producers and content creators. Get it on your mobile device for only $16
