Online theaters vs. walk-in theaters and the future of
Online theaters are popping up with sites like jaman.com, thefilmmakerschannel.net, outlawfilmchannel.com and future sites like your very own fansoffilm.com. The list is growing as if there was a movement toward Internet distribution for filmmaker’s. Well yeaa! and can walk-in theaters keep up.
Clue in filmmakers and fans. The content is growing every day on the Internet, I repeat growing” So if you’re a filmmaker you should be putting your content up before it’s too late. What that means for fans, is new content is being added to the Internet every day, and more fans, seeking new content on the Internet.
So yes there is a film movement online, and filmmakers are finding all kinds of venues to market themselves and their films. The big question, is what is the best way? One word independent! Yes independent and stay that way no matter what netflix offers or any other for that matter. You would be stupid to sale-out now, when the future is here for indie labels. Custom paypal video services like the one filmmakershelp.com provides. That’s embeddable anywhere, that means viral video. It also means the filmmaker gets paid first no matter where is video might be on the web. I mean think about it if your video goes viral you could have thousands of people pay-per-viewing you film all at the same time, and you get paid first, and you make all the money.
This is what I predict for the future of online theaters. The most popular ones of course will be the ones with the most content, and best design. But filmmakers beware of the cost to putting your film on any distribution site/theater site. I see a future trend toward independent labeling and distribution. So I believe sites that supports different I-frames/video players, and is free for a filmmaker to put up a profile and distribute his or her movie from that online theater, those will be the most popular for filmmakers. Theaters can make its revenue from sponsored ads, and even membership dews, for those more popular sites “But not of the filmmakers” Sites that pay you first. That’s an independent online theater that truly supports “art/indie films” putting the filmmaker first, paying the filmmaker first. That will be the future of online theaters.
In my opinion.
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