Other social media pages

 The first social media page I want to look at is the page for Forever Young, a film I've referenced and talked about in my previous blog posts. I think their marketing, and especially distribution, is really solid and works to elevate the piece not only before but also months after the film has already been released.

While not necessarily focused on the short film Forever Young, as the account is for the production company, RainCity Productions, their only film as of right now is Forever Young so it works out. The first few posts were just a teaser and a trailer of the film, which I will likely end up doing, but much later on when I've already filmed and am in the editing process. After they announced that the film was on YouTube, they began posting other stuff, such as the film being premiered and winning awards at the All American High School Film Festival and good reviews on Letterboxd. The posts that stood out to me the most tho were the announcement of the score being up on streaming services as well as CD to accompany it ANDDD a DVD with an exclusive new sound mix and color grade. I think this is soooo goddamn dope. Since they made their own score, they have it up on Spotify and other platforms (and its honestly good, like I listen to it on my free time lol), and on a CD, adding exclusivity and interactivity with the audience, I loooove it. The same goes for the DVD, it only had 50 copies, creating exclusivity for the item and its tailored for fans of the short, having special new features. I would looove to do something like this, even if it isn't a real CD or DVD, just a post about it could be really cool. Apart from that, the account also has some BTS photos. I could use a fake film fest post and fake reviews before releasing a big trailer, but probably after a teaser in order to generate more hype and generate some more posts on the page. 

Another social media page I want to look at that is more focused on a single short film is the page for The Lake in the Sky. The page is completely focused on promoting the film, even down to the profile picture. The first few posts teased the film and explained the backstory behind how the creator came up with the idea. It contained some other teases and looks into production, with actors and a teaser for the trailer. They also posted some BTS and well as storyboards vs the actual shots, which I thought was really really cool and a good look into both the pre-production and production aspects of the film. Then the page goes into more basic stuff like trailers and film festivals that they have entered. But another interesting thing the page does is have a "meet the composer" post, which introduces the composer of the film. I could maybe do this with myself, like a meet the director/writer/editor/whatever near the beginning of my social media lifespan.

This gives me a good starting point to jump off from as I have other ideas for starting my social media project before I actually start filming and have limited things to post. I think that once I start production, filling up my social media page will get much easier as I have more content to post.