by Joey Daoud | Nov 30, 2010 | Film Festival
I’m stuck in the airport right now due to there being no one who can fly the plane or something. I have one book in my bag (thanks to the versatility of the iPad) – the 3rd Edition of Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide....
by Joey Daoud | Nov 8, 2010 | Distribution
Pretty awesome infographic on the last five years of online video. Lots of interesting data on user demographics and most popular genres, plus comparisons of data between 2007 and 2009. via History of Online Video | The Blog Herald
by Joey Daoud | Oct 27, 2010 | Documentary, Editing
Editing for Bots High, my first feature length documentary, is done! Picture is locked, music is getting wrapped up and sound design has started. I’m working on a variety of posts to cover what I learned, both on higher, editing theory level, and detailed,...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 1, 2010 | Marketing
This is very clever – it’s a zombie adventure story that gives you choices along the way, using the YouTube annotations to link to another video that reveals the outcome of the path you choose. Does the adventure continue, or does your choice lead you to...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 14, 2010 | Distribution, Exhibition
A few weeks ago I went to the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race in Charlotte. I never understood NASCAR and I still don’t get it, but with 140,000 people in attendance (twice as many as the average football stadium), plus the millions that watched on TV, it’s a...
by Joey Daoud | May 27, 2010 | Marketing, Video Apps
Meetup is a site and tool that allows you to create a group and organize real life meetups (remember those?). Usually these were location based (like Miami Movie Makers) so if you had a company or movement, you couldn’t really enable independent groups to...
by Joey Daoud | May 24, 2010 | Marketing, Video Apps
I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt right now, watching Charlie Rose asking questions about the future of tech. I’m here to keep an eye out for new technologies that can be used to produce, market, distribute, and engage audiences for films and filmmakers. So far...
by Joey Daoud | May 20, 2010 | Marketing, Video Apps
A few weeks ago I wrote about the new site Flattr, which is a new venture to try to monetize blog content. Basically it’s a button like a Digg button, you click on stuff you like and depending on how many things you Flattr, the monthly amount of money...
by Joey Daoud | May 18, 2010 | Marketing
It’s four days before the deadline for my Kickstarter project reaches its end. I’m only about a third of the way to my $9000 goal – a seemingly impossible feat. A few hours later the goal is reached! So sudden? Anti-climactic? I know. Now I wish I...
by Andrew | Mar 16, 2010 | Distribution, Marketing
Apparently there was a time when a young filmmaker such as yourself could make a decent independent film, submit it to festivals and sit back while distributors threw wads of cash at your feet, all while begging for the privilege to give your little indie the...
