Saturday, May 30, 2009

Sid's Twitter Follower Marketing Strategy

Wanna get multiple followers and reap huge rewards from Twitter?


Then use Twitter. (@sidfilmz )



After one casual Fri. night at the bars, I skated home to rip a bowl and hop on the web for a quick session of YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, and porn. Well, this particular evening turned out different than others, because I never got to the porn. This time, I went to Twitter first, and by this point, I'd been Tweeting for about 2-3 months, off & on. I'd amassed a good 50+ followers (enough to start making some scrilla $$ off Twitter Ads, baby!), but not anything to really brag about yet. And I my main goal wasn't to plug my Twitter feed full of ads, as opposed to many of those marketing shemps out there. I wanted to keep my incoming feed as well as my outgoing feed clean and concise.

I especially didn't want to turn people off that wanted to follow my wit and wisdoms and occasional web tricks and/or quests for help by filling my own twitter feed w/ ads. I only planned on advertising w/ links to stuff I'd actually want to check out for myself. Needless to say, I posted few ad links, and was still conscious of the fact that the more followers I had, the higher was the likelihood that I'd actually get enough clicks on some of these ads to make some straight up mad scrilla $$.

Click to read the full article.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Celluloid Cheese - Inside the making of a Godzilla meets Ed Wood meets Euro-space meets Chinese Kung-fu Movie

Check out this article in the Mail Tribune from writer Chris Conrad.

Levi Anderson and John Foote shoot video of a model spacecaft for the short film First Men on Planet 9


Director Randy Granstrom admits "First Men on Planet 9" is his most political film to date, a piece of cinematic mayhem he describes as a post-colonial critique of Manifest Destiny in which he takes Western culture to task for exploiting native cultures and the environment in its push to dominate the New World.

All he has to do now is get the damn firecrackers to blow up the miniature spaceship so he can wrap the opening scene.

Granstrom and his small but dedicated crew are at work Wednesday night inside Land Mind Productions, a studio on South Fir Street, toiling amidst thick smoke and strobe lights to bring the right amount of realism to the crash landing that kicks off their film.

The scene involves a spaceship smashing into a miniaturized landscape — built with Granstrom's last bit of potting soil, tiny plastic trees and plaster cloth — and erupting into flame.

John Foote, executive producer and owner of Land Mind Productions, fastens fishing line to the top of the ship and dangles it over the crash zone.

The crew busts up when they see the fishing line stand out on the initial takes.

"In my grand vision I had this awesome spaceship flying in — but no," Granstrom says.

Foote was reassuring.

"If you saw the last Bruce Campbell movie, you saw more fishing line than in 'Deadliest Catch,' " he says.

ACTION

The Magnum 800 fog machine floods the set, as does smoke from Granstrom's leftover fireworks. Explosions. The original plan was to tape a road flare to the end of the ship to simulate rockets, but logistics proved daunting.

The ship nosedives onto the set and plows a trench past a plastic tree, which catches fire after the firecrackers do their job.

"Don't destroy the trees," Granstrom says. "I paid $8.99 for those."

Camera operator and "Planet 9" actor Levi Anderson, moving from one end of the set to the other via wheelchair, captures the chaos on a small digital camera.

Afterward, the crew gathers around the camera to review the footage. They love it.


Read the whole article here.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Late Night Lounge to Screen at Ashland Independent Film Festival


 



Late Night Lounge at AIFF


 



Watch clips from the show on vimeo.com



More from the Producer at denizentv.com



More info about the Ashland Independent Film Festival



And info about filming in southern oregon