Ways to Make Money Via Short Films
SYNOPSIS
- Short Film as the 1st step
- Expectation & Entertainment
- Box-office your creativity
- Conclusion
SHORT FILM AS THE 1st STEP
The cinematography is life for many, nowadays. Due to its enormous job opportunities and a dilemma of publicity more and more people are rushing to get into this field. To these newbies, the term SHORT FILM paves a ‘hit and trial’ platform to enhance and expose their talents. The prime aim of this mini creative video is to convey the theme in short and spicy manner in which the viewer expects. By creating finite films, they can be efficient enough to be successful in this field.
EXPECTATION & ENTERTAINMENT
Many demand the short film to be less than 20 minutes for grabbing numerous viewers. The viewer of the short film, in the fact, may be anyone and their age group would be wide i.e. from child to old. The short film that is capable of attracting all those people finally leads to high success. The storyline, screenplay, humour sense, the quality of video, background music, attractive title and much more would play an equal role in a perfect short film. Thus the filmmakers must be clear in creating such a film to reach great heights in their film career.
BOX-OFFICE YOUR CREATIVITY
As short films cannot be directly released onto the theatre making money from it is a challenging one. But extraordinary such films may also reach to billions of audiences worldwide and earn huge sums. Some tactics to make money via short films are:
- Money from Cloud
- Film Festival
- Filming As A Profession
- Affiliate Marketing
- Awareness Programme
Money from Cloud
- The simplest method to earn from short films is just by uploading it to YouTube. The advertisements and other criteria such as “pay per click” determine the pay amount.
- It is most user-friendly and considered to be one-time work. Where after the film is uploaded, it stays online always and earns incessantly.
- Also there are many such YouTube channels who buy good quality videos for a nice amount.
- In addition to that the URL shortening agents adf.ly, tinyurl.com if linked to that video site then we can earn more.
Film Festival
- We can also make short films for the sake of applying for film festivals. The trending and good rated short films are appreciated with rewards and awards.
- There are many seasonal and regional level competitions held all over the world to promote cine industry and targeting on them will pay good recognition in career also.
- Be aware not to upload those films in online hosting sites if we plan to apply in a film festival.
The Top 5 Must-Submits:-
- Sundance Film Festival (USA)
- Cannes Film Festival (France) – for shorts under 15 minutes only
- Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA)
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
- Aspen Shortsfest (USA)
Filming As A Profession
- Another possible way making money is making the short film as a profession. Some institutions and companies demand short films makers to make such films in return for money.
- This is similar to making an advertisement but instead here the trust or any other funding jargon demands for the short film to gain more funds.
- So if one is just seeking for money through short films then this will be the apt option.
Affiliate Marketing
- This is considered to be risk free and quite profitable option in short term. Here the advertiser directly sponsors the short film either financially or by any means.
- This programme can be quoted initially before starting a short film to any product or a company.
- If the film is a great success, then the advertiser also earns a considerable profit.
- For students who make short films as passion can utilize this method to satisfy their financial support.
CONCLUSION
Thus a new era is yet to begin for the demand of great short films. Obviously soon people would find it more convenient to watch short films rather than a full movie. Then it may even cause a great revolution in cinema field. Hence Short filmmakers be with your cameras ready to a shootout and visualize your awesome dreams. Your short film can also be the top viral video in near future.
