Distribution

Hi guys!

Now that we have everything in place to film and edit, I thought I'd do a blogpost about our distribution techniques. This is a very low budget film and we are still beginners, so we decided we would upload our film onto Youtube and Vimeo. Sites like Amazon Prime and Netflix are way out of our reach since we are still a very small "business". These are both very user-friendly and convenient platforms in order to get our film out to a broad audience. To choose and understand the difference between these two sites, we did thorough research and found a lot of information on this site: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/youtube-vs-vimeo/. We found there is no time limit for either site and the premium versions of both are not of high cost, making it a good investment for the project.

Free video viewing service, with the first video sharing site supporting high-quality video.

Youtube is easily accessible, free, and gets over 30 million visitors a day.

We want to appeal to an audience of young adults, especially people in high school or just starting college since our story is about a high school senior and her dream to become a professional dancer and attend NYU. We chose to use these two sites because they are easily navigated through a smartphone (in the U.S., 96% of 18-29-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2018) or a laptop, and we can also upload our film to this site at no cost but could upgrade for a very low cost making the benefits worth it. Making it easily accessible for our target audience and a very low cost for us, these sites are perfect for distributing our film.