Automatically engage social media with your low budget film production
Posted by Frank Auer on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 @ 01:26 PM
A short one today. Still no response from BU or anyone else I have emailed. Would Craigslist be cheating the experiment? Does it count as social media? If only CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Insitute) had a social media network I could appeal to it for help! After all it was my experiences there that convinced me to embark upon this.
So today I was thinking briefly - in what ways can we have a film set generate social media content automatically? If someone can create a Twitter feed that tweets passing gas then what might we do on a film set? A camera that tweets every start and stop? i.e. just shot 12 minutes or just shot 1200 feet of film? Or tweets its location? If it is a social community backed film would GPS be a great way of engaging with fans (as long as they stay out of the way while shooting)? What about a live ustream feed from the set? Or software that frame grabs two images a day from the editing bay and uploads them to Flickr? Independent low budget films may not have the time or money so generate a ton of high quality social media,but what about going for a quantity, not quality approach? Does that make sense or is it a betrayal or your fans?