As well as a formal presentation by ex Shooting People and Edinburgh International Film Festival (2011) chief James Mullighan, this special edition has an extended networking session, and a live workshop of six diverse participants’ projects.

1. Digital Frontiers – Why is all this important? What’s new – in funding, crowdsourcing, production, marketing, audience-engagement, and sales and distribution.

2. Digital Strategy – How to design a website and social media campaign for your film. How social media and technology can help you, and how you can help yourself, stay on top of new developments and opportunities.

3. Crowdsourcing and crowd funding – Using case studies, the seminar will ask: What is the difference? Who are the players? What makes a good crowd funding campaign, from the fundraising trailer to the length of time, the amount you are seeking to raise and your social media strategy to solicit donations? How to make a crowd funding campaign fit into the wider web campaign for your film?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed about social media and all things digital, then Digital Bootcamp will show you how to create a manageable strategy and use available tools to get your films made and seen. You will learn how to reach and engage audiences in new and exciting ways, and you will learn how to measure the impact of your endeavours.

Once you have booked your place, you can submit your film application to be workshopped by the group. There are only a limited number of spaces for projects. Please send them via email to Merryn Johnson with ‘Digital Bootcamp Submission’ in the subject field.

Image Credit: © Tina Remiz

Your guide is Frontline Member, James Mullighan (Board Member of Encounters, Doc|Fest and LSFF Festivals, and ex chief of Shooting People and Edinburgh International Film Festival). The seminar will guide you through a series of case studies and practical examples (with a focus on documentaries) to help you get up to speed with many of the digital tools now available to storytellers. This seminar will cover these areas:

1.Digital Frontiers – Why is all this important? What’s new – in funding, crowdsourcing, production, marketing, audience-engagement, and sales and distribution.

2.Digital Strategy – How to design a website and social media campaign for your film. How social media and technology can help you, and how you can help yourself, stay on top of new developments and opportunities.

3.Crowdsourcing and Crowd funding – Using case studies, the seminar will ask: What is the difference? Who are the players? What makes a good crowd funding campaign, from the fundraising trailer to the length of time, the amount you are seeking to raise and your social media strategy to solicit donations? How to make a crowd funding campaign fit into the wider web campaign for your film?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed about social media and all things digital then Digital Bootcamp will show you how to create a manageable strategy and use available tools to get your films made and seen. You will learn how to reach and engage audiences in new and exciting ways, and you will learn how to measure the impact of your endeavours.

1. Digital Frontiers – Why is all this important? What’s new – in funding, crowd-sourcing, production, marketing, audience-engagement and distribution.

2. Digital Strategy – How to design a website and social media campaign for your film. How social media and technology can help you, and how you can help yourself, stay on top of new developments and opportunities.

3. Crowdsourcing is a big buzzword at the moment. We’ll look at some examples of crowdsourced projects and talk about the difference between crowdfunding (through sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo) and crowdsourcing production (like Amazon Studios are doing for example). Crowdsourcing production can bring up a range of issues and problems so we will talk about both the good and the bad aspects of this approach. Crowdfunding is proving to be perhaps the most exciting development for filmmakers and we will look at what makes a good crowdfunding campaign, from the fundraising trailer to the length of time, the amount you are seeking to raise and your social media strategy to solicit donations. We’ll show case studies of good campaigns and talk about what made them work so well. Finally, we will outline how to make your crowdfunding campaign fit into the wider web campaign for your film.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed about social media and all things digital then Digital Bootcamp will show you how to create a manageable strategy and use available tools to get your films made and seen. You will learn how to reach and engage audiences in new and exciting ways. And you will learn how to measure the impact of your endeavors.

Course length: 3pm-6pm
Fees: £50 corporate rate
£30 Freelance, Shooting People members, LSFF ticketholders

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