Set Up A Screening
Step 1. Get a hold of a high quality copy of our film online or by purchasing a download or DVD.
Step 2. Decide on a venue. It could be your livingroom or community space using a projector or a lecture hall at your college or even a local art house theater that is willing to let you set up the screening.
Step 3. Lock down a date.
Step 4. Then if it’s a public screening then you should create a page with all the screening details on our Brave New Theaters Page.
Step 5. Promote the screening in anyway you can. We recommend making a video invitation. This can be you explaining why you wanted to do a screening and giving people the date and time. You can splice in a google map screen grab. You can also cut to some clips or show the entire trailer at the end. Visit our trailer page to download our trailer in a variety of qualities to use for this. Then look at our tutorial about posting video to the web to make sure you’ve gotten the video everywhere you can get it.
Step 6. Get posters and DVDs. You can get a bundle of posters and a bundle of dvds for wholesale cost off of our store at the bottom. This will help promote the screening and then you can sell the DVDs at the screening.
Step 7. Have the screening. Make it a party if you want. Have a band play after. What ever makes sense to you. It’s good to say something at the start. Don’t say anything about what the movie is about, let the movie do the talking. But let them know who put the screening on and tell people that we are accessible via our website and that we are interested in people joining our site to let us know where and how they saw the film. Also that we are always interested in video comments about what people thought about the film. These can even be recorded and posted by the screening promoter if you feel like it. Check out the tutorial on posting a video response to the film for that.
Step 8. Money. If you charged for the screening you now have to pay us half of what was collected. So if 10 people pay 10 dollars each, we need to get 50 dollars unless otherwise negotiated by getting in touch via our contact page. The other option is to have the screenings be free which in a lot of cases is probably the best way to go.
Our payment info is below:
Checks can be made to:
Four Eyed Monsters LLC
950 Hart St. Suite 203
Brooklyn NY 11237
And to pay us with pay pal, just use the pay pal donation tool for the amount you owe us. The donation button is on the top right of our site and type in the amount you need to give us.
Step 9. Post any videos or photos from the screening and or after party to flickr and tag them with “four eyed monsters” and to the facebook group. Search groups for “Four Eyed MOnsters”. Thats it. If it was fun, maybe do it again sometime.
Other resources:
Self Reliant Films also posted about Liz Cole’s thoughts on a filmmaker taking their movie on tour which is a pretty interesting concept that Lance from Head Trauma has also persued.
Instructables.com has some insight on creating your own drive in movie theater with a projector in a car and an antenna that broadcasts the audio to near by parked cars.
*For any other tips or resources or questions about putting together screenings, please post a comment below and we’ll comment back as promptly as we can or another reader can chime in with an answer.
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January 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am
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