11:01:59 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------- We will get started shortly. We are waiting a few moments to allow everyone to arrive. In the chat, tell us one of your key takeaways from last session! We would like you all to have your videos on if possible. ---------------------- 11:02:24 From Kathy Hassinger to Everyone : Core Audience 11:02:31 From Pamela Sporn to Everyone : Hi from the sunny Bronx! 11:02:37 From Lisa Hall to Everyone : Everything is new to me and thus, very valuable. 11:02:42 From Michael Modak-Truran to Everyone : Pitch frequently and often 11:02:44 From Arlene Rimer to Everyone : Still- limit breakouts to 4-5 people 11:02:52 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : I really enjoyed the email scripts :) 11:02:52 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------- We will get started shortly. We are waiting a few moments to allow everyone to arrive. In the chat, tell us one of your key takeaways from last session! We would like you all to have your videos on if possible. ---------------------- 11:02:54 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : beautiful afternoon in Toronto, waiting on our next lockdown :( 11:02:56 From Eric Bricker to Everyone : Key point from last session for me is the importance of developing a relationship with partners and that it won’t be just one call or email. 11:03:03 From Michael Johnson to Everyone : These classes have been great! 11:03:20 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Good afternoon to everyone 11:03:21 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : Essential to practice, practice, practice your film pitch 11:03:22 From Doug Block to Everyone : Get more creative with my email subject lines 11:03:24 From Odette Scott to Everyone : The physical examples from last class were so useful! Thank you. 11:03:26 From Stan Crider to Everyone : pitch packets 11:03:34 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : the niche is the most powerful starting point! 11:03:34 From Michelle Paymar to Everyone : Audience! 11:03:37 From Daniel Julien to Everyone : How many people will say their pitch at 1:30 pm 11:03:40 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Yes these classes have been amazing and also enjoyed Keith’s show and tell yesterday. Hi from Central Illinois (where I am visiting my mom, I usually live in LA) 11:03:44 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : Yesterday’s session was great. We’re a nice little gang now. 11:03:46 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : Greetings from Berlin. Key takeaway: get potential partners on board as early as possible and keep them involved. 11:03:47 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : 3 types of pitches, starting from email, to phone call to in person/zoom 11:03:53 From Chris Bournea to Everyone : I really need to build a team, especially a smiler and dialer 11:03:53 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : I agree with all of them 11:03:54 From trudi Angell to Everyone : Hi from Baja California Sur 11:03:58 From Janet Kirchheimer to Everyone : 2-pronged approach- trying to get gigs and film festivals 11:03:59 From Donald Harrison to Everyone : The value in having a Pitch Deck for distro (not just fundraising) 11:04:01 From John McAllister to Everyone : Want partners who see our film as an opportunity 11:04:02 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : I would love more discussion on FILM LENGTH. 11:04:02 From Michael Jacobsohn to Everyone : Michael Jacobsohn: mjacobs2008@gmail.com 11:04:09 From Mark Gordon to Everyone : Great to see everyone! 11:04:10 From Donut Dollies to Everyone : Hello, Norm who was with you last week is joining in 30 minutes…. I’m a little out of it! 11:04:11 From David Streit to Everyone : Just inspired and informed every week. 11:04:17 From Burton Buller to Everyone : Hi from Virginia!! Land of dogwoods and redbuds. 11:04:17 From Vicki Topaz to Everyone : Hello from San Francisco (VIcki Topaz) 11:04:20 From Sheil Seclearr to Everyone : I’m sooooo glad to start early for this project 11:04:29 From Emily Branham to Everyone : Overall takeaway: BREVITY in pitching and all materials 11:04:36 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : know your audience, and have a pitch deck 11:05:02 From Tina Datsko to Everyone : Your goal is to create word-of-mouth in your Superfan audience. 11:05:50 From David Streit to Everyone : Katrina? 11:06:09 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : @Rob: regarding film length, I’m hosting a webinar on editing non-traditional length cuts of your film for fundraising from non-traditional funding sources (companies, non-film foundations) https://calendly.com/showandtellfilm/editing-for-fundraising 11:06:28 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : great takeaways! 11:06:31 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : great story! 11:06:41 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : make it better… if you can 11:06:49 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : Love the story Lex 11:07:08 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : I’ll be very happy to hear today WHEN to create an on-line presence when a film has the potential of being subpoenaed or sued (given controversial nature of the project). I’d like earlier presence, but lawyers keep suggesting waiting to the very end for those legal reasons as well as not wanting story to be poached… 11:07:30 From Connie Bottinelli to Everyone : TAKE AWAY: confident - you’re going to make this film and get it out into the world. CLEAR INTENTION 11:08:09 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : Lots of nuggets about pitching 11:08:39 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Don’t understand the relevance of these stories to the course??? 11:08:52 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------- In the chat, tell us one of your key takeaways from last session! We would like you all to have your videos on if possible. ---------------------- 11:09:47 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : weet-woo! 11:10:37 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : nice! 11:10:53 From Mark Meatto to Everyone : Key take away from last week: pitches get better with practice, they really do 11:10:54 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : Sarah, I love your story! 11:11:01 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : im finding this course a bit overwhelming to be honest. Not sure how it will help me release and raise funds film based in the Middle East dealing with a sensitive controversial issue 11:11:28 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : Congratulations! Keith 11:11:39 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : Mark - that is a GREAT photo. 11:12:29 From Dean Butler to Everyone : Love Dawn Hudson…studied acting with Dawn some years ago. 11:12:32 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : adorable! 11:12:38 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : So sweet Peter. 11:12:40 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : @Majida, I empathize with you. Reviewing the class recordings and notes helps with the pace. I also have some controversial issues in my film. Discussing it with people from the domestic and international sides of the film is helping manage those 11:12:52 From Alka Raghuram to Everyone : Sweet stories! 11:13:09 From Eric Bricker to Everyone : Maybe Peter could revive the outfit in his photo like Sarah and her family did with her mom? 11:13:11 From Beth Dolan to Everyone : Personal stories — so great! Thank you so much, SYD team! 11:13:19 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : Will there be NDAs for the work we share as a group (for the strategy tune up to be specific?) 11:13:27 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : sweet stories 11:13:28 From Michael Johnson to Everyone : Good to get to know you all a bit better. Thank you! 11:14:52 From Christopher Dawes to Everyone : QUESTION: Thoughts on a well done IMDB page versus a poorly done or nonexistent one? How important is that versus a website? Thanks! 11:15:08 From John McAllister to Everyone : +1 Christopher 11:15:19 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : +1 Chris 11:15:27 From George King to Everyone : I hate IMDB! 11:15:59 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : Can Peter and Keith talk about one website for all your films (i.e.: catalog) vs single doc website? Pros and cons? 11:16:13 From Alex Leff to Everyone : +1 Robin 11:16:14 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : +1 Robin 11:16:27 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : +1 Robin 11:16:41 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : +1 Robin - or for your production company vs. your individual films 11:17:02 From Pamela Sporn to Everyone : +1 Robin and Sam 11:17:05 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1 Robin 11:17:06 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------------- Hot tip: if you need captions, you can click the CC Live Transcript button down at the bottom of your screen and select “show subtitle.” ---------------------------- 11:17:09 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : +1 sam 11:17:18 From Alka Raghuram to Everyone : +1 Robin 11:17:30 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1 sam 11:17:38 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : Are there third party platforms or companies that specialize in film websites, with built-in e-commerce for digital downloads, etc? 11:17:38 From Mark Birnbaum to Everyone : + Robin 11:18:27 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : +Robin and Sam 11:18:45 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @Dan https://assemble.me 11:19:15 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : Thanks @Rick will check them out! 11:19:15 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1 Lindsay 11:19:17 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : this was a vey useful slide 11:19:21 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : What platforms best for building a website? 11:19:46 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : @Majida = WordPress 11:20:18 From Therese Shechter to Everyone : I’m a Squarespace evangelist 11:20:21 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @Dan I used https://assemble.me for a couple of years for one of my films but didn’t take advantage of the e-commerce and virtual cinema possibilities and got tired of paying the monthly cost for it. 11:20:40 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : should a website have a shelf life after film is released? 11:20:53 From Mark Birnbaum to Everyone : Wix 11:21:00 From LeeAnn Dance to Everyone : wix 11:21:16 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thinking of moving off word press to squarespace more accesible 11:21:31 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : I like Wix, because I find it to be the most intuitive to use 11:21:46 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Squarespace - very easy for me to build myself 11:22:09 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : From a structure and longevity point of view, WordPress is more future proof than Squarespace or Wix. It’s fully open source and will be around forever. 11:22:38 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Good point, Peter. I didn’t realize that. 11:22:59 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------------- For folks just joining us: If you have any technical issues or questions (re Zoom) you can send a private message to me or Mark or Sarah (look for TECH at the front of our names). Please put your questions for Peter and Keith in the chat and we will call on folks later in the session to ask those questions out loud. Please keep questions relevant to what we are discussing in each session. Today we are talking about REVIEWING YOUR WEBSITE and CREATING COMPELLING WEBSITES. Please only put each question (about REVIEWING YOUR WEBSITE and CREATING COMPELLING WEBSITES) in the chat one time. If someone asks a question that you would also like to hear answered, please make note of that in the chat. ---------------------------- 11:22:59 From George King to Everyone : My website got hacked bout a month ago. The hosting site had a firewall— we think they got in through the WordPress end of things. 11:23:28 From LeeAnn Dance to Everyone : I was hacked via WordPress and switched to Wix. 11:24:21 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : Is there a conflict getting quotes from people that appeared in your film? 11:24:52 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : +Ned 11:25:39 From Terry O'Neill to Everyone : time-timer! 11:25:44 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1 Ned 11:28:03 From Mark Birnbaum to Everyone : + Ned 11:28:32 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Love Mark Twain quotes 11:28:55 From Donald Harrison to Everyone : + Robin & Sam — my film’s got its own pages on my studio’s website, but wonder if making its own dedicated site/urls is worth the extra design/build. 11:31:21 From Michael Johnson to Everyone : Same here. Plus, our film has a working title so it’s too early to have a dedicated URL. We are using a page on our studio’s site as a placeholder until we get that worked out. 11:31:59 From James Buffin to Everyone : Are the differentiated landing pages hidden from general view? 11:32:03 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Quotes from academics have added credentials for my film 11:32:31 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Taking this course is making my to-do list so long! :O 11:32:53 From Bronte Stahl to Everyone : With one film I’m working on, we’ve set up a private website that takes the form of a pitch deck, so that as our writing evolves we can update it. Is this a useful combination of pitch deck and website or do you think they should play distinct roles/take distinct forms? 11:32:54 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Haha, Vivien, it’s so true! But also clarifying a nebulous to-do list I had before. 11:33:17 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Cured is a totally wonderful amazing film. 11:33:24 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : I saw a screening of Cured. It’s so good. 11:33:37 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Vivien, agree! 11:34:38 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Looks like the explanation of their social impact/theory of change 11:36:49 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : How long for each pitch?? 11:39:30 From John McAllister to Everyone : I like how the photo covers so much of the page 11:40:41 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Dane Cook is a character in your film, wow! Go Wendy 11:40:56 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Wendy: love the concept of the film and the title! 11:41:05 From John McAllister to Everyone : This is really helpful 11:41:10 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : Love that Marc Maron is in your film Wendy… 11:41:18 From Julie Englander to Everyone : Marc Maron! 11:41:47 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : It could be a gallery slider thing 11:42:34 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : I like Vivien’s ideas 11:42:35 From Allen Wolf to Everyone : A tremendous amount of people now look at websites purely on their cell phones. I think it might be helpful to look at how these translate to phones as well. 11:42:39 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Did the people whose websites are being showcased today get notified ahead of time? 11:42:54 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : can Wendy share what web design platform she used? 11:42:57 From Mark Birnbaum to Everyone : WTF! 11:42:59 From Doug Block to Everyone : +1 @Allen 11:42:59 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : Bigger photos, 1 by 1 character. 11:43:14 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : Wendy used Squarespace 11:43:28 From Joel Gershon to Everyone : +1 Allen, this must be considered 11:43:45 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : I also wonder how these sites look on phones Most people as was mentioned look at sites on phones 11:44:28 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : All hosting platforms are responsive nowadays. 11:44:36 From John McAllister to Everyone : Also some photos are repeated 11:44:43 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Wendy used Squarespace 11:46:05 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thanks Mark 11:46:51 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Who is the primary audience for this site? Funders, partners, potential viewers? 11:47:30 From Beth Dolan to Everyone : Great website, Wendy — have also learned that global tabs in white do not read on mobile devices, where a lot of people are scrolling sites from. 11:47:55 From Cynthia Salzman Mondell, she, her to Everyone : Looks like a wonderful film. 11:48:34 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Also comedians could make income as well in presenting to conferences about anxiety - win/win for filmmaker and comedians 11:48:42 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : I’m looking forward to Wendy’s film. 11:49:12 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : The menu at the top of websites is called a “Navigation Bar.” 11:49:35 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : @Keith, can you recommend a core set of global tabs? 11:50:12 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : @Peter good point 11:50:22 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : I would change the title of the film — maybe COMIC ANXIETY — need to have Comedy or Humor in the title. I love the idea of this film! 11:50:31 From John McAllister to Everyone : What would be on the anxiety page 11:50:32 From John McAllister to Everyone : ? 11:50:42 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Is it better to have ‘watch the teaser’ as a text link, or have the video embedded? I would say I most go to people’s websites to watch a trailer. 11:50:48 From Claire Panke to Everyone : Can Peter/Keith discuss pros/cons of having TRAILER on home page 11:51:00 From Anne Davis O'Neal to Everyone : Claire +1 11:51:32 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : Are we ever going to discuss the subject of FILM TITLES - so important and often misleading. 11:51:55 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : +ned 11:52:54 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : @Wendy: Mailchimp 11:52:56 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : wendy do a pop up window on squarespace - i gathered so many adresses that way! 11:53:04 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Thank you Wendy for agreeing to this public review or your website! :) 11:53:05 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Where are social media links on her site? 11:53:12 From Patrick Norman to Everyone : you can integrate a mailchimp widget into squarespace to capture emails 11:53:12 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : I highly recommend integrating AirTable into your website if you can with forms. It’s so great to have a platform where you can manage all the data you collect. 11:53:29 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : Yes, and MailChimp integration is great too! 11:53:29 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : The issue with including phone numbers and addresses is you get spammed 11:53:35 From Mark Gordon to Everyone : I love the title “Anxiety Club”! 11:53:36 From Francesca Soans to Everyone : Thank you, Wendy, for the courage to share! 11:53:40 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : Re Mailing List - If you don’t want to use a newsletter service, you can also direct signups to a google spreadsheet. In Squarespace there is a ‘block’ called Newsletter 11:53:42 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Be careful with a free Mailchimp account: I just learned that a lot of email carriers are automatically sending mailings from free Mailchimp newsletters to SPAM. 11:53:43 From John McAllister to Everyone : Christi will you elaborate on Air Table? 11:53:56 From Susan Mundheim to Everyone : What about - “Partner with Us? Or “ Use Us!” Or “Programs” - that describes potential partnerships 11:54:18 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : THANK YOU PETER & KEITH! 11:54:28 From Odette Scott to Everyone : Thank you Wendy, that was brave! 11:54:42 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : Nice work, @wendy!! 11:55:00 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : Bravo Wendy! And so glad we get to see Myriam & Kent’s terrific sites too. 11:55:09 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : No text on peeps faces! 11:55:12 From LeeAnn Dance to Everyone : I’ve liked Wix because I can send newsletters/updates out to my mailing list and don’t need a separate service, so I don’t need another subscription. And, I can sell through Wix, so I don’t need another service for that. 11:55:23 From Marie Wilkinson to Everyone : Love this website!!! Excited to see this film! 11:55:40 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : AirTable is a great production/organizational tool. We are finding it extremely useful as we move into festivals and now community screenings/educational distribution. I would recommend looking at a few YouTube videos to see how it can be used. I’ve fallen in love with it. 11:56:12 From John McAllister to Everyone : ty 11:56:25 From Alex Leff to Everyone : Great pitch! 11:56:26 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Great pitch 11:56:27 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Engaging pitch! 11:56:46 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : fantastic pics! 11:56:57 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Engaging pitch 11:56:58 From John McAllister to Everyone : I don’t like how the block capital lettering covers a lot of the image 11:58:38 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Kind of lost the doc searching on the phone 11:59:28 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : I wonder if it would be helpful to take an approach similar to Honeyland, which focus more on the backstory than the honey itself (even as honey was so central to that story) 11:59:53 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : IMHO the landing page would be more outstanding if the cow and the person moved...a short clip? Animate the man and cheesemaker and the cow??? Something that grabs right away? 12:00:04 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : been wanting to watch Honeyland how can I watch it? 12:00:21 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Love the photos of this story 12:00:26 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Heard the interview with direct 12:00:32 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : https://honeyland.earth/screenings/ 12:00:44 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : with cinematographers on the Doc Life podcast 12:01:49 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : What about loading time if a website is on the front page with cell phones 12:02:22 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Would love to watch this film Myriam 12:02:53 From Claire Panke to Everyone : LOVE “Say Cheese!" 12:02:54 From Lillian Glass to Everyone : How do you stream your film for payment? 12:03:12 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : good question Lillian!! 12:04:16 From Alexandra Lexton to Everyone : Lillian - Vimeo or aggregators. But you have to be careful not to do that before essential screenings. 12:05:23 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : There’s nothing wrong with being “cheesy” : ) 12:06:16 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Thank you for all your wonderful comments and support!! 12:07:14 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Who is the person Peter is reading the comments of? 12:07:51 From Paul Espinosa to Everyone : How do you determine when the popup window shows up? 12:08:59 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : Excellent Kent - so agree regarding stress and anxiety. Looks like an important film. 12:09:09 From Doug Block to Everyone : Timely film. I have painful sciatica! 12:09:14 From George King to Everyone : Respectfully, all the websites we have seen so far look the same—shared aesthetics. 12:09:24 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : The pace of cutting of these clips on the homepage is a little fast, almost dizzying when you’re trying to read text over it. 12:09:29 From Doug Block to Everyone : Hopefully all in my head 12:09:39 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : So not a good idea to do a pop-up request for email before they see the website? 12:09:40 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Popup window stuff is options built into SquareSpace or wix with how they pop up 12:10:19 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : That image (Brain Induced) and others are crying out for an After Effects treatment. 12:11:05 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Rod, you mean animate the circles a little bit? 12:11:16 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : Yes, animate the circles. 12:11:28 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : That would help. Or at least add some different colors to draw your eye around. 12:11:41 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Yes I agree with animation of circles 12:11:42 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Make the "Take Action" button a pill lol 12:11:43 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : I again wonder about animation with loading on a cell phone 12:11:56 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : You are correct! 12:11:58 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Yes! 12:12:23 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Fiverr 12:12:23 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @Viven: Yes, a pill! 12:12:29 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : Bravo Kent!! So effective. 12:12:35 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : I’ve built many sites, $30-40K is way out of range 12:12:56 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : Brava!!!!! Therese! 12:13:25 From John McAllister to Everyone : Interesting concept 12:14:25 From John McAllister to Everyone : Cool comic 12:14:43 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Great visual identity 12:15:13 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : Love this film concept Therese…very relatable. 12:15:22 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : love your site therese!! 12:15:28 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Love her photo up front 12:15:40 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : Such a good idea for a documentary :) 12:15:48 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : @Therese have you talked to Maxine Trump, who recently made “To Kid or Not to Kid”? She’s a teacher at Sundance Co//ab and would probably have good thoughts about partners for your film. 12:15:50 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Great idea 12:16:11 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Really cool opportunities for Women's History Month 12:16:22 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Tons of conference booking opportunities for that next year ;) 12:16:32 From Julie Bridgham to Everyone : Great site Therese! 12:16:42 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : LOVE this site!!!!! 12:16:42 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : Therese, contact me if you want an Impact producer for Women's History Month bookings! :P 12:16:57 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : Love your site and film concept, Therese! 12:16:59 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : vivienhwu@gmail.com 12:16:59 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : Partner suggestion: Women’s history museums 12:17:01 From Doug Block to Everyone : Ditto Brittany re Maxine Trump 12:17:08 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : @elle good idea 12:17:16 From Odette Scott to Everyone : This website makes me really excited about this film 12:17:30 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : QUESTION: If you are further along and have plenty of edited clips, how do you suggest including them and how much to include? That has not been shown on these example sites yet. 12:18:20 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Great website - makes me feel like you really know and care about the subject! 12:18:29 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Peter is referring to James Franklin, one of the world’s leading creators of independent film websites 12:18:34 From John McAllister to Everyone : What would James suggest in lieu of sign up? 12:18:34 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : I love that you made a film about this topic. All of those things have been said to me at some point. 12:19:14 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Therese, great site! Really bold. Keep me posted on your film jilldembyguest@gmail.com Bravo!! 12:19:20 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : The Bulletin: https://peterbroderick.com/distributionbulletins/files/archive-jan-2016.html 12:19:37 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : Could you put Assemble’s website in the chat? 12:19:47 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : Love your website and film concept @Therese 12:19:49 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : Thanks for your nice comments, everyone! 12:19:57 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : I do! Please send! :) 12:20:23 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Can’t wait for your film, Therese!! Did you do your website on your own? 12:20:32 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Ooh, good pitch, Will. Gives me chills. 12:20:39 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : For some reason the title Cowboy and Preacher makes me think it’s two different characters…any thought on a title like Cowboy Preacher? 12:20:41 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : I wish the title was bigger! 12:20:46 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : love the quote slides!! is this a squarespace page? 12:21:10 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : @re Maxine. Yes, we’ve been talking about these issues and our projects for a while! 12:21:11 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : Beautiful site!! 12:21:22 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Oh lovely, Therese. Glad you already know Maxine. 12:22:00 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : Will, can all the text be read on a phone? 12:22:03 From Claire Panke to Everyone : Be sure your FONT SIZE is big enough for people to read, especially on a phone 12:22:24 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : +1 Claire. Looks small on the computer. 12:22:44 From Melanie Wallace to Everyone : I agree with font size comment - all the fonts seem way too small esp for phone reading 12:23:14 From Jim Becket Ojai CA he/him to Everyone : Will how to contact the webdesigner 12:23:44 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Web designer info please. Thank you! 12:24:09 From James Buffin to Everyone : Is there a template for the screening request form please? 12:24:53 From Susan Hamovitch to Everyone : You’re right — my website sucks 12:24:58 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : +James 12:25:24 From Francesca Soans to Everyone : Seeing these examples is so helpful—thank you all for sharing! 12:25:26 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Fonts difficult to read on phone 12:26:05 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : @wendylobel Yes I did the site myself. In my other life I am a graphic designer. 12:26:13 From Cirina Catania to Everyone : Thanks for all these great suggestions and comments! Very helpful. 12:26:23 From Robbie Leppzer to Everyone : Please put James’s website and web design company in the chat. 12:26:42 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : It was worth the time on the websites. 12:26:52 From Lance Murphey to Everyone : Thanks for all the examples. Super helpful. 12:27:12 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : Also asking Will how to contact the designer 12:27:27 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : It was great to see others’ websites and hear feedback on them. 12:27:53 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ---------------------------- TO DISCUSS IN BREAKOUT ROOMS: What is the best thing your website has done for you? ---------------------------- 12:44:19 From Michael Jacobsohn to Everyone : Million dollar question: How do your drive eyeballs to your site? 12:44:26 From Heather L to Everyone : @Peter & @Keith - can you please give tips for a personal website vs a website specific to one film. Thanks. 12:44:46 From Odette Scott to Everyone : +1 heather. This is my big question 12:44:48 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : We are back from breakout rooms everyone! 12:44:48 From Janet Kirchheimer to Everyone : Heather has a great question! 12:44:58 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : +1 Heather!! 12:45:02 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : folks in my group wondered about best way to sell on website 12:45:06 From Paul Espinosa to Everyone : Using random strategy for the breakouts and keeping them small (6) was great. 12:45:22 From Leah Mahan to Everyone : Ditto on the question about filmmaker sites vs. film sites. Need help with that. 12:45:23 From Will Fraser to Everyone : Hi, if anyone likes the website www.cowboyandpreacher.com which Peter and Keith mentioned, please contact me at will@fuguestatefilms.co.uk You can also look at my other website www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk I can link people who are interested up with the web designer. Will 12:45:36 From Susan Kaplan to Everyone : @Heather, Same question 12:45:45 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Yes I thought random breakout rooms worked great 12:45:51 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Isn’t it dangerous to put too many details about film out there before you finish the film in case someone steals the idea and main character? 12:45:59 From Don Colacino to Everyone : ICANN 12:46:04 From James Buffin (he/him) to Everyone : are .film or .themovie good for SEO? 12:46:12 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : Agree with Paul - we all have similar distribution challenges regardless of the topics. Nice to have a smaller group. 12:46:13 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : +majida 12:46:16 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : You can also buy both domains so that one redirects to the other. Lots of people will just type .com by default. 12:46:17 From Anne Davis O'Neal to Everyone : Liking the random breakout rooms too! 12:46:17 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : I have a modest web development company, http://www.performsites.com and am happy to do a free short consultation. 12:46:40 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : James + 1 12:46:42 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : Can we have a breakout room for Holocaust themed films? 12:47:17 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : A great domain registrar is Google Domains - private, $12.00 per year, auto renew. 12:47:18 From Doug Block to Everyone : +4 re Heather 12:47:20 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : possible drinking game 12:47:23 From Robbie Leppzer to Everyone : Please put James’s website and web design company in the chat. 12:47:45 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : @Rod that was one of our breakout room themes in the last two classes 12:47:56 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : I wonder if there are any film-specific SEO tricks? 12:48:01 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : And we can continue to include that in future breakout rooms 12:48:04 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : For folks who have asked: https://myselfishlife.com if you want to get on the list. Also yes, I designed it. 12:48:36 From Doug Block to Everyone : Great job, Therese 12:48:39 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thanks Kieth good to remember 12:48:49 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1majida 12:49:03 From Rod Martel (Minneapolis) to Everyone : Sometimes we need someone else to tell us what our film is about. 12:49:16 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : Also a tip if you hire a web designer — give them reference website that you like a lot. They can copy the code of design elements. This works for Wix and Squarespace, and also custom-built sites. You provide them the photos, text, video, etc. Saves time and money. 12:49:22 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : what does it mean when +1 then name? 12:49:22 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : Thanks @doug. Means a lot to hear that. 12:49:42 From TECH - Sarah Kaplan (she/her) to Everyone : +1 means that they have the same question 12:49:47 From Patrick Norman to Everyone : great point from maria. don’t have them reinvent the wheel. 12:49:50 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : @Majida the +1 name is an indication that the person also wants to the know the answer to that person’s question 12:50:05 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : Thank you Maria. 12:50:06 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Ok thanks! 12:50:26 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : It’s also critical to build the site from the beginning to be fully accessible to people with disabilities - there needs to be intentionality for the site to be read by screen readers for people who are blind, etc. It’s not all automated by the platform. 12:50:47 From Rob (he, him) and Laurie (she, her) Tranchin to Everyone : Great point, Dan. 12:50:57 From Connie Bottinelli to Everyone : @Majida Kabariti - get a life rights agreement to protect your access/rights to character’s story. 12:51:01 From Tina Datsko to Everyone : Question: Because I’m working on other projects and only have 5-10 hrs/wk to work on distributing this project, is developing a website the first place to put my time/energy? 12:56:04 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : I actually don’t. My partner is going to make my website. Maybe ask the group for their recommendations? 12:56:36 From Elliat Graney-Saucke to Everyone : how do you deal with URLs for each project with one main master site? 12:56:53 From James Buffin (he/him) to Everyone : how do you manage global menus with multiple projects on the same site? 12:56:56 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : You can have multiple domains like www.movie.com redirect to pages on your main site. 12:57:02 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : @Elliat you simply buy the domains and then redirect them 12:57:35 From David Streit to Everyone : Different urls for each film pointing to different pages on the same site. 12:57:40 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : the answer’s in the chat! 12:57:41 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : +1 James Buffin question 12:57:47 From George King to Everyone : @Peter Broderick So you have a separate URL, but it is on the master site? 12:57:54 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : Check out potentially how Exposure Labs does it with their different films 12:58:08 From James Buffin (he/him) to Everyone : Are there any examples of what you’re talking about @peter? 12:58:08 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : You can enter for instance via chasingcoral.com or exposurelabs.com 12:58:12 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : But that solution basically means you just have one tab for each film… Most of the film websites we’ve been looking at have 5 or so pages in and of themselves...? 12:58:28 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : Or am I misunderstanding? 12:59:24 From Elliat Graney-Saucke to Everyone : I am now editing my website! I can’t wait!! 12:59:32 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : The Exposure Labs example is having a separate site for the production company/catalog and a separate site for each film as well. This makes sense to me, but I didn’t take that to be what Peter was suggesting. 12:59:36 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : @sam I closed up a site for a film I did 8 years ago, and re-conceived it as one page on my company’s site. One very large scroll 13:00:49 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Great point about clicking. For instance in this chat if you put http:// before the URL it will be clickable. 13:01:02 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : I think people type into Google now for everything to quickly find the URL/site 13:01:29 From Lisa Gossels to Everyone : I have two feature doc websites and a personal vs. production company website because i do a lot of teaching and speaking with my films. on my personal website, i have one page for each of my docs, with hyperlinks to each full doc website for those who want to learn much more. 13:01:56 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : @Lindsay and @Sam I do think https://www.exposurelabs.com/ is a great example - but as Sam says, they still needed to build an independent site for each film. But it’s all nicely done. 13:01:58 From Rebecca Hamm to Everyone : Wondering about Heather’s question: General Tips for your film’s website — @Peter & @Keith - can you please give tips for a personal website vs a website specific to one film. Thanks. 13:02:14 From Claire Panke to Everyone : A point no one has made but people should think about - SSL certificates especially if you are selling your film online. Making sure the personal info for your website visitors stays secure. 13:02:54 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : I might be looking for a seasoned producing partner if anyone has any suggestions… 13:02:56 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : 4 minutes is actually a long time! 13:04:15 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : But what about sensitive topics that you are open to being sued/subpoenaed etc? 13:04:45 From Lara Slife to Everyone : Start with a ‘SPLASH PAGE’! 13:04:49 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Cheap One-Page Website Platform: https://carrd.co/ 13:05:25 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : My new film’s website was built using Carrd: https://www.lastdaysofcapitalism.com/ 13:05:43 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : @Lisa Gossels can you share the URL for your personal film page? 13:05:46 From Kent Bassett to Everyone : if anyone has great recommendations for web designers, can you pass them along (I’m at tmhfilm@gmail.com) 13:05:47 From Polly Wells to Everyone : Can anyone describe any key difference between the SquareSpace and Wix? 13:05:50 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : @Lindsay you should try to share information about the story while only hinting at the controversial information, it can be mysterious… 13:05:52 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : I built this myself in like an hour. Costs $14/year for hosting. 13:05:55 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : @Lara and @Mark—thank you! 13:06:01 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : Thanks @Elle as well 13:06:16 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : Squarespace customization: John Doing doingdrums@gmail.com 13:06:49 From Claire Panke to Everyone : Can someone mention e-commerce options - limitations on SquareSpace vs. WordPress vs. Wix 13:07:13 From Doug Block to Everyone : Can you easily change templates on Squarespace? We’ve gone pretty far down the road with a template that turned out to be limited. 13:07:48 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : +1 What Keith said. You can get really far with the templates and then have someone add a couple things that make it different or add things you can’t do automatically 13:07:50 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : @Doug if you started a while back you are probably on Squarespace 7.0. They have now updated to 7.1 and the 7.1 themes can be updated. 13:07:51 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : That’s the limitation about Wix or Squarespace. 13:07:59 From Alex Leff to Everyone : What’s your advice for working with a web designer? How can you set that up for success? 13:08:00 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Wix has a Marketplace to find Wix designers. 13:08:12 From Eric Bricker to Everyone : https://www.aluminationmovie.com - Emily McRight did our Squarespace sight. She’s an incredibly good designer and really quick. emcright24@gmail.com 13:08:19 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : You can customize far more with Wordpress…many designers are not in favor of going to the out of the box programs. 13:08:22 From Eric Bricker to Everyone : Site. 13:08:26 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : @doug Yes, you can change templates, although it’s not super easy. It’s quite fiddly, but I’ve done it a couple of times and it was worth it. 13:08:33 From Lisa Hall to Everyone : I need to change my answer to the oringinal poll after today……my website is not ok and needs work. calling my guy right after this class. ACK!!!! 13:08:39 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : There are no limitations to e-commerce on wordpress, to answer that question. Woo Commerce is good for e-commerce. 13:08:41 From Michael Jacobsohn to Everyone : What about Adobe’s Dreamweaver? 13:08:46 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : This class is causing anxiety lol 13:08:46 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : @ Doug - I started my film in 2014 and so had to migrate it a Squarespace 7.0 to 7.1 theme a few months ago. It was a bit of a pain but definitely worthwhile. The site looks pretty much the same but functionality has improved and it will be easier to update in the future. 13:09:00 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : @Michael No to Dreamweaver 13:09:12 From Patrick Norman to Everyone : squarespace is to imovie what dreamweaver is to avid. 13:09:17 From Vivien Wu to Everyone : lol haven't seen the word Dreamweaver in 10 years 13:09:52 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : @Patrick hahaha funny 13:09:57 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038270572-Moving-from-Squarespace-version-7-0-to-version-7-1 13:10:12 From Lara Slife to Everyone : I use Squarespace , but I don’t do it myself…. 13:10:16 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : I’ve made some pretty cool stuff using iMovie. And it didn’t require me hiring someone. 13:10:48 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : That kind of squeeze page is not going to endear you to your audience. 13:10:49 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : I would say if you’re intimidated by customizing your website, having any website with well-considered info and visuals, even if it looks like a template, is better than no website. At least to start. 13:11:06 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : @Brittany very true 13:12:03 From Patrick Norman to Everyone : totally. more a comment on the complexity of dreamweaver. it’s great if you’re a web designer but intimidating if you’re new to building a site. square, like imovie, makes it easy to make something cool and functional fast. 13:12:49 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : @brittany Totally true. A basic template will get you a long way. I do a lot of Squarespace customization, but you do need a budget for that. 13:12:49 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : Anyone know how I can tell which Squarespace version I’m using?? 13:12:57 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : Find a favorite film website that uses Wix or Squarespace by looking at the Developer. Then, ask your web designer to emulate them. It’s to do easy in Chrome — see file attached. 13:13:11 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : Thank you Keith and Peter 13:13:24 From Doug Block to Everyone : Thanks, @Sam 13:14:19 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : @janice: you’re welcome! 13:14:56 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : @Majida, you should get life rights — at least for a period of time when you are working on the film. 13:15:14 From Mark Gordon to Everyone : I’m feeling overwhelmed with the VOLUME of tasks covered. What do we want to focus on FIRST? 13:15:34 From Diane Vicari to Everyone : The happened to me a lot while making the film about a very known musician but my contract protected me. As My subject said - an iron-clad exclusive contract. 13:15:42 From Jim Becket Ojai CA he/him to Everyone : majida has the subject signed a release for you? 13:16:05 From Louise Rosen to Everyone : Be like the tom cat and mark your space! 13:16:18 From Barbara Multer-Wellin to Everyone : You should have an agreement with your character not to work with another filmmaker for at least a year 13:16:34 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : +1 Mark Gordon 13:16:39 From Louise Rosen to Everyone : Yes, as long as you have the rights. 13:16:42 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Do I need a lawyer for the form??? 13:17:09 From Jon Ornoy to Everyone : Definitely have a lawyer write the contract 13:17:11 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Yes, get a lawyer and obtain the rights to this person’s story. 13:17:20 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : @Jim but even if the subject has signed a release, they can also film with others 13:17:31 From Lara Slife to Everyone : I recommend Ryan Foy at Roundhouse Designs. He did my website Borntoleadfilm.com and Splash page BroadwayDame.com… 13:17:33 From Diane Vicari to Everyone : life story rights - I can send you a template. 13:17:37 From Paul Steinbroner to Everyone : Get a signed agreement with the main character giving you the exclusive rights 13:17:40 From Lance Murphey to Everyone : Deeply ingrained when Peter consulted me on my first film and we had questions about piracy, and he said that exact same line to us: Piracy’s not your problem. Obscurity’s your problem. Never forget that line. 13:18:00 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : @Majida - yes, entertainment or IP lawyer in Jordan, w/ experience protecting rights in Europe and USA also. 13:18:32 From Tina Datsko to Everyone : What info should go on your general professional website and what should go on your film’s website? 13:18:32 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : How dangerous is it to have clips in teaser that aren’t licensed? 13:18:49 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : @majida - can you get your subject to commit to only telling the story with you? 13:18:54 From Christopher Seward to Everyone : get the rights. 13:19:05 From Anne Davis O'Neal to Everyone : Funders may require a legal agreement between you and your subject 13:19:10 From Olga Matthes to Everyone : Oh just email PDF instead so far 13:19:31 From Michael Jacobsohn to Everyone : Majida get the athlete to support your project exclusively. 13:20:32 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : @Majida - Do you have story rights from this international person? 13:20:48 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : Is there a way we can make use of this group to get more feedback on our websites? 13:22:06 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : Perhaps we could have some sort of sign-up for people who want feedback and would be willing to look at a handful of others’ sites as well? 13:22:23 From Louise Rosen to Everyone : Majida - if you do a deal with AJ Witness, they will get world rights. So you'll need to be sure you can make the film for their license fee if you can't raise other money from non-TV sources. 13:22:28 From Jim Becket Ojai CA he/him to Everyone : My guess Sam is that most of use will be radically changing our websites after today! 13:22:51 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : My email is majidakabariti@gmail.com 13:22:54 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : do the poll again! 13:23:41 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : +1 Sam - great idea 13:23:56 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Keith is so wise. I agree with him 100% about big picture things that matter. 13:24:00 From Allen Wolf to Everyone : Does anyone have a legal template they could share to have the rights to film and share someone’s life for a doc? If so, I’m at allen@morningstarpictures.com. 13:24:06 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : +1 Sam 13:24:17 From Alex Leff to Everyone : +1 Sam 13:24:22 From Elliat Graney-Saucke to Everyone : Are we going over time today? 13:24:31 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : +1 Sam 13:24:45 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : Me too 13:24:51 From Majida Kabariti, Jordan to Everyone : for template 13:24:54 From Terry O'Neill he/him to Everyone : mine sucks now! 13:25:15 From Barbara Multer-Wellin to Everyone : Have not seen the poll either time 13:25:18 From TECH - Sarah Kaplan (she/her) to Everyone : @Elliat we are going until 2:00 PM PDT today, so today is 30 minutes longer 13:25:34 From Diane Vicari to Everyone : “suck” is a BIG word! A work-in progress maybe... 13:25:42 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : If you are going to sign life rights, don’t use a template! Use a lawyer! 13:25:54 From Elliat Graney-Saucke to Everyone : @Sarah - ok, thanks~ 13:26:22 From Tom G to Everyone : I don’t think my web site **SUCKS*** it just needs a little TLC. :) www.FrBudFilm.com 13:26:47 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Suggestions for a great entertainment lawyer in NYC? 13:26:55 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : This session is giving me great ideas for improvements to my website 13:27:16 From Heather L to Everyone : @Keith when you talk about monetizing conferences can you please talk about pros/cons of short films (under 40 min) Thanks. 13:27:19 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : STRATEGY TUNE-UP SESSIONS: April 30 + May 12 13:27:31 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : Starting at 11am PST 13:27:49 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : +1 Heather - @Keith when you talk about monetizing conferences can you please talk about pros/cons of short films (under 40 min) Thanks. 13:28:08 From Mark Gordon to Everyone : What time zone??? 13:28:15 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : Pacific (Los Angeles) 13:28:21 From Patrick Norman to Everyone : +1 maria 13:28:51 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : GO CHRISTI !!! 13:28:59 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : I can’t wait to see this film! 13:29:09 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : YOUTH V GOV 13:29:21 From Annika Iltis to Everyone : +1 Heather, shorts in all of these subjects are always on my mind as well 13:29:22 From Kent Bassett to Everyone : sounds great! 13:29:30 From Paul Steinbroner to Everyone : You Bet your Life would be a better title 13:30:01 From Elliat Graney-Saucke to Everyone : Yes, title is hard to understand verbally 13:30:09 From Paul Steinbroner to Everyone : What a great story you have…congratulations! 13:30:18 From CJ Crim to Everyone : I LOVE this film topic!! 13:30:21 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : +1 title is tough verbally 13:30:32 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Also many people say “vs.” or “versus” and not “vee” 13:30:38 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : I didn’t understand the title either. 13:31:02 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : This sounds like a compelling film! The longer version has a lot of big words that sound better in writing. 13:31:05 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : “Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Clean Air” 13:31:06 From Don Colacino to Everyone : How do you differentiate between a 2-sentence “pitch” and a longline? 13:31:07 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @Peter: I would have understood “versus” 13:31:08 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : Title is great. I’ve remembered the title since I heard about the film several years ago. 13:31:12 From Don Colacino to Everyone : …logline. 13:31:43 From Julie Bridgham to Everyone : Such a great film Christi! 13:32:31 From Sheil Seclearr to Everyone : +1 Mark Stolaroff 13:32:48 From Lindsay Ofrias to Everyone : So there’s no conflict of interest in discussing with community partners before film is done, given this is an open legal case? Does it give the impression that they are somehow influencing the story? 13:33:11 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : @maria @heather: I’ll try to integrate pros/cons of shorter docs at conferences. I’m also leading a webinar next Thursday on editing different length cuts for different purposes like presenting at conferences. RSVP here: https://calendly.com/showandtellfilm/editing-for-fundraising 13:33:37 From Donald Harrison to Everyone : Yes, great topic. Title change to consider. ‘Youth vs. USA’ Somehow “v gov” doesn’t quite land. 13:33:49 From Heather L to Everyone : Thanks Keith 13:34:25 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : Thank you Keith! I already signed-up for your webinar :) There are a ton of wonderful short docs out there that need to be seen more widely, and monitized too if possible :) 13:34:58 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : shorts have so many options with partners and conferences!! 13:35:22 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : I’m sold - i want to see this. goosebumps 13:35:27 From Maria Fortiz-Morse to Everyone : @Julie, so strong. I want to know more… 13:35:28 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Great pitch 13:35:29 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Sounds VERY compelling. 13:35:37 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Very nice! Emotionally compelling 13:36:00 From Melanie Wallace to Everyone : I really want to know more and more excellent 13:36:00 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : Great pitch. 13:36:24 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Pitch should be a teaser and this one succeeds at that. 13:38:38 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : Guilty! 13:38:48 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : Yes, I really hear you on this! 13:38:52 From Kim Saltarski to Everyone : I have to leave this session at 4:40 to attend a pitch meeting. If I happen to be picked, I won’t be able to pitch but appreciate any feedback. See y’all next week. 13:40:41 From Wendy Lobel to Everyone : Chills 13:40:47 From Jonathan Viscuna to Everyone : my goodnesssssss 13:40:50 From CJ Crim to Everyone : Sounds like a great film! 13:40:55 From Jonathan Viscuna to Everyone : I wanna see it now!!!!!!!!!!! 13:41:04 From Elle Kamihira to Everyone : woooow 13:41:04 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Tagline: can you get out of jail in a coma? 13:41:08 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Awesome! 13:41:14 From Jonathan Viscuna to Everyone : well done Daniel! 13:41:28 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : Great job Daniel! What a compelling story. 13:41:36 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : This pitch work is bending my brain…! 13:41:39 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Good one, Jill. Reminds me of Almodovar’s film “Hable Con Ella” 13:41:55 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Absolutely Brittany! 13:42:52 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Is that a painting of your dog?? 13:43:16 From TECH - Sarah Kaplan (she/her) to Everyone : Great question Mark! 13:44:06 From Sue Arbuthnot to Everyone : Nicely done, Kathy, congratulations! 13:44:24 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : It would be great to have these written in the chat alongside of hearing them... 13:44:38 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Delayed comment but when she said Youth V Gov I heard “You Speak Of” 13:44:56 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : Adriana, you can use the CC option 13:45:06 From DAN HABIB to Everyone : Peter and Keith, when pitching verbally, like folks are today, would you suggest using a version that is more conversational, rather than reading a log line out loud? 13:45:20 From Sam Smartt to Everyone : +1 Dan 13:45:25 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @ TECH Mark: Could we get all the pitches in writing with the class slides? 13:45:53 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Could you post in chat the pitch 13:45:55 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : @alejandro - didn’t know that possibility. Thanks! 13:45:58 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : @Rick: yes, let me see what I can do! 13:46:20 From Rick Minnich to Everyone : @TECH Mark: Thanks! 13:46:34 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thank you 13:46:44 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : @Dianne - are you wanting us to copy our pitches into the chat? 13:46:51 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Yes please 13:47:21 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : YOUTH v GOV pitch: YOUTH v GOV follows 21 young Americans suing the world’s most powerful government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. If they win, they will change the future. 13:47:32 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : Dan +1 feeling the difference between written language and spoken/conversational. 13:47:48 From Chris Owen to Everyone : Is it a rule that the title of the film must be in the 2 sentences of the pitch? 13:48:09 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thanks Christi 13:48:15 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : The elliptical also works... 13:48:16 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : I found the title of our film on the elliptical! It was a true inspiration. 13:48:38 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : @Mark - ha ha! jinx 13:48:55 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : @Adriana - Jinx! 13:49:26 From Julie Englander to Everyone : Here’s my pitch: “Nobody Should Know” is a story of secrecy, faith, and two friends with cystic fibrosis. While Andrea, who lives in Manhattan, celebrates the bilateral lung transplant that saved her life, Bracha, who lives a train ride away in Brooklyn, struggles to do all the things a good Orthodox Jewish mother should… while keeping her disease a total secret. 13:49:28 From George King to Everyone : I think you need two pitches, one written the other for verbal delivery. 13:49:42 From Jon Ornoy to Everyone : i'm here 13:50:04 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : re: pitching in a conversational way…I didn’t do a great job of it today as Peter caught me off guard…lol…but I found that PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE has been paramount. I’ve had to pitch it to so many funders, on calls, at meetings, etc. that it helped to practice it out loud ad nauseam. 13:50:50 From John McAllister | Double Dummy to Everyone : That was our working title once upon a time, Lost in the Shuffle 13:50:53 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thanks Julie for sharing 13:50:59 From Anita Modak-Truran (she/her) to Everyone : I loved all of the pitches. What an amazing class. I have to sign off. 13:51:01 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Huh. I have no idea what that description in the pitch means but I’m interested. 13:51:29 From Dianne Griffin to Everyone : Thank you all for this fabulous day 13:51:30 From David Streit to Everyone : right - what’s next 13:51:43 From A'magine | she/they to Everyone : Could we hear that again? There was sound overriding some of it. 13:51:54 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : This is very helpful - what great information today. Appreciating you all and everyone who was willing to take the risk and share. 13:52:08 From Odette Scott to Everyone : can we hear it again? 13:52:08 From Therese Shechter (she/her) to Everyone : Thanks - this is a great session! I need to sign off. 13:52:55 From Adriana Marchione to Everyone : yes slower…goes by too quick to really absorb 13:53:05 From TECH: Mark Stolaroff (he/him) to Everyone : Jon’s cat is not impressed… 13:53:35 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : Please put your pitch in the chat. 13:53:40 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : Is it ok to leave out the title in the pitch? 13:53:41 From Mark Gordon to Everyone : I have to leave. See you next time. Thanks for all the info and support! Mark Gordon 13:53:50 From Jon Ornoy to Everyone : "Pick a card, any card! Charismatic world champion magician Shawn Farquhar reveals the tantalizing clues of a Medieval cold case murder hidden in among the Jack, Queens, and Kings on his journey to learn more about the storied relationship between magic and playing cards." 13:54:07 From Odette Scott to Everyone : I heard the pitch but not sure what the movie is about. is it about a murder? 13:54:13 From George King to Everyone : @Jon, shorten and try to end with the title 13:54:27 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : Sorry if I missed this, but are we hearing pitches from folks that have been picked randomly/ 13:54:38 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : gaitcon.com does website design and development 13:55:51 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Good pitch - clear delivery - it makes me interested in how you had access as a documentarian and the risks involved. 13:56:03 From Sheil Seclearr to Everyone : LOVE a fully animated documentary!!! 13:56:04 From Keith Ochwat (he/him) to Everyone : Elle’s pitch: JENNIFER, 42 is a fully animated documentary feature about how Connecticut mom Jennifer Magnano and her three children survived years of escalating coercive control and violence at the hands of dad Scott, their hair-raising escape, and the bizarre journey that ultimately forced them back within Scott’s deadly reach. 13:56:31 From Francesca Soans to Everyone : Curious about examples of pitches for poetic or experimental forms? 13:56:32 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Oh, you said it was animated - maybe that should come at the end once we understand the topic. 13:57:10 From Matthew Eisen to Everyone : Agree Brittany! Story first, style secondary. 13:57:37 From Dean Butler to Everyone : Great session. Thank you very much. 13:57:41 From Donald Harrison to Everyone : If there’s a way to indicate (or even hint) why “42” in the pitch, could add a strong note to it (already pretty good) 13:57:45 From Lisa Gossels to Everyone : Agreed, @Brittany. Great pitch, Elle. 13:58:19 From Myriam Zumbuehl to Everyone : also: i love connecticut but you can edit that out 13:58:27 From David Streit to Everyone : What is the uniqueness of the animation? 13:58:37 From Lisa Hall to Everyone : Thank you to all who shared your pitch. It has been helpful to hear you share your film in a concise way. 13:58:40 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : What about losing a few adjectives? 13:58:42 From Cynthia Salzman Mondell, she, her to Everyone : Elle, Good pitch. 13:59:03 From Anne Davis O'Neal to Everyone : Thanks to all who shared their website and pitches! 13:59:25 From Megan Sanchez-Warner (she/her) to Everyone : Question: if a film is autobiographical and also social issue, thoughts on written pitches in 1st or 3rd person? 13:59:30 From David Streit to Everyone : How does the animation style enhance? 13:59:54 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : I always thought the pitches are like telling a short joked… the set-up followed by a sharp and concise punch line. 13:59:55 From Zhu Shen to Everyone : @Megan+1 14:00:16 From John McAllister | Double Dummy to Everyone : I am going to host a pitch practice on Clubhouse @jgm7x 14:00:19 From James Buffin (he/him) to Everyone : One thing that might be intriguing would be to say why it’s animated 14:00:27 From Jill Demby Guest to Everyone : I have to jump off. Thanks all! 14:00:27 From Mimi deGruy to Everyone : Thank you everyone, particularly those who share websites and pitches. It’s all inspiring! 14:00:40 From Peter McDowell to Everyone : Breathtaking website! <3 https://www.jennifer42movie.com 14:00:51 From trudi Angell to Everyone : I want 3 sentences ;0) 14:01:21 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : ------------------------------- Heads up that I will unmute EVERYONE right as we are wrapping up so you can all say goodbye to Peter and Keith! ------------------------------- 14:01:24 From Sue Arbuthnot to Everyone : Great session today, thanks to all! 14:01:28 From Robin Rosenthal to Everyone : Thanks to all brave souls! 14:01:29 From Janice Villarosa to Everyone : Thanks Everyone!! 14:01:35 From Vicki Topaz to Everyone : Thank you everyone, so inspired. VickiTopaz www.dogwalkhomefilm.com 14:01:35 From Ned Augustenborg to Everyone : Feel free to rip into my pitch…“The Ballad of Don Lewis”is about an African American who revolutionized the use of electronic instrumentation ; a musical genius who broke commercial, technical and racial barriers to forever change our world’s musical landscape. 14:01:35 From Doug Block to Everyone : Thanks, all 14:01:37 From Francesca Soans to Everyone : Thank you—wonderful day! 14:01:44 From Emily Branham (she/her) to Everyone : Thanks everyone! This was great :) 14:01:44 From Brittany Alsot (she/her) to Everyone : Thanks everyone! 14:01:45 From Julie Englander to Everyone : Thanks, Peter, Keith and team! 14:01:45 From Lara Slife to Everyone : thanks 14:01:47 From Christi Cooper to Everyone : Thank you everyone! Super helpful! 14:01:50 From Alejandro Enríquez García to Everyone : Thank you for sharing!!! 14:01:50 From Blair Naujok to Everyone : thanks 14:01:52 From Kent Bassett to Everyone : Thank you!! 14:14:07 From TECH - Lex Ryan (they/them) to Everyone : environmental, LGBTQIA+, racial justice, health/disability, other social issues, biographical/historical, arts/performance, aging, food, crime, random, mental health, environmental, sports, reproductive justice, holocaust, wildlife, veterans/military