How to make money from internet distribution of movies?

[Tom Fallon]

So how much would it cost to store a film in HD and 90 minutes in lenght per month? And how expensive are the bandwith costs to download it per download?

Our estimates from Amazon are 10 cents per gig upload, 15 cents per gig per month storage, and 17 cents per gig download.

Our first phase includes only SD downloads, not HD, but it's in our phase 2 plan.
We basing our cost projections on mp4's, at 10 megs per minute.

But we're on hold, gents! My investor is having second thoughts because she's been told no-one will buy short films! haha - sooo, back to the drawing board.
But I'd welcome your continued conversation on the subject.

Take a look at... http://vimeo.com/4400053

 

[Tom Fallon]

"One Six Right"?

I thought he presold a bunch of copies of that while he was still in production. And he made that 2 million dollars without your website. Is there something your website would do for him that he couldn't do himself fairly easily?

I believe your right, Joel. "One Six Right" - didn't download it, just watched the trailer. Just relating what a mutual friend had told me about the film...
He did build his own web-site with links to his iTunes download. I'm just offering a way for people to do it without building their own site, and without getting their film approved by iTunes. Just upload and sell, but without DRM protections, which as Karpov so clearly points out with the P2P Wiki listing, is
quite easily circumvented anyway. The reason I brought up "One Six Right" is that the right film that finds its market can do well without a distributor.

 

[PatrickW]

So how much would it cost to store a film in HD and 90 minutes in lenght per month? And how expensive are the bandwith costs to download it per download?

From as little as hosting it on a single computer in your apartment as a torrent for people to access for free, to as much as the cost of having multiple servers with a fat connection hosting it from server room, which can envolve thousands of dollars of equipment and high monthly costs.

It can be a nominal addition to your electricity bill, or it can be a expensive operation. It depends if you want to share it as a community film at the grass roots level or if you want to offer fast streams to many people quickly at once.

 

[Yannick Hagman]

What I did over the last days is actually not a distribution site, but nevertheless a nice little social network for independent filmlovers and makers. It's BETA currently, but I can already send invitations around to those who are interested. Please provide me your email address via PM in that case.

 

[RougeDP]

you get to maintain your integrity as an artist instead of pandering to advertising whims.....

How wonderfully naive of you! Your original response to the OP read like the knee-jerk reaction of a bitter "artiste". He wasn't talking about product placement, which could certainly compromise an artistic vision... He was talking about having to pass by an ad before viewing a pure vision. I don't think that is pandering. It is called turning the #*$!-ers of the world into art-patrons, and that is something that should be encouraged, not discouraged!

 

[Yannick Hagman]

"Beta" - But working.
http://www.joolie.com/joolie/

(thanks to those who have joined already)

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

It's a boy.

:001_tongue:

 

[alexwhitmer]

I have to side with doing it in a way that advertisers are avoided. Most have shite products with shite campaigns to push them. I can't imagine watching a great film, only to follow it with the sludge that cheap advertising is and always will be.

Keep it clean and keep it cheap, and people will find it. Pray to all the Gods Walmart doesn't come along and buy whatever venue filmmkares build for distribution. Am I the only one concerned that Amazon and Walmart control huge swaths of what we read, listen to and watch?

Yeah, internet distribution free of these cheap product whores Please!.


These days I never go to theaters and I never watch television for this very reason.

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[Elsie N]

I have to side with doing it in a way that advertisers are avoided. Most have shite products with shite campaigns to push them. I can't imagine watching a great film, only to follow it with the sludge that cheap advertising is and always will be.

Keep it clean and keep it cheap, and people will find it. Pray to all the Gods Walmart doesn't come along and buy whatever venue filmmkares build for distribution. Am I the only one concerned that Amazon and Walmart control huge swaths of what we read, listen to and watch?

Yeah, internet distribution free of these cheap product whores Please!.


These days I never go to theaters and I never watch television for this very reason.

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I neither agree nor disagree with your statements, but I will defend to your death (by starvation) the right to make them!:smilielol5:

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Très bien...