Video Screenings for Fun and Fame

Five steps to hosting your own mini-festival.

Okay, your ten-minute parody, Terminator XXXIV is a truly fine video. Your spouse is impressed; your parents and in-laws have lavished praise; your kids sat through it four times.

Now what? Fact is, you've plumb run out of audience. You can enter your show in contests and festivals, but you have to wait weeks or months for feedback and those events are, well, kind of remote. What you want is home-town appreciation. What you want is a public screening.

Wait a minute: a ten minute public screening? Way too short to draw an audience, even with free punch and cookies. The solution is to make your epic the centerpiece of a whole program of short videos gleaned from your video-making friends, your local user group or just an informal network of video producers. (If you don't belong to a user group, check the sidebar for hints on finding or forming…

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