Indie Ideas: Build Your Street Team

Raymond-Did-It-at-Joke-and-Biagio.jpgJust a quick post about an indie working hard to get his movie out there, and being creative in his approach.

Travis Legge, an aspiring horror film writer and director, took his career into his own hands by making Raymond Did It, an ultra-low-budget horror film.

Considering he had no money, the trailer looks really good. Plus, he was smart enough to reach out to, and cast, two of our former Scream Queens in Raymond Did It.

Travis is Building a Street Team

To help distribute his movie himself, and get the word out, Travis is selling Raymond Did It Street Team Shirts. The idea is to earn some extra money to help release the film, and at the same time use that age old “walking billboard” tactic to spread the word.

But it’s Just a Tee Shirt, Right?

We all get free tee-shirts, all the time, at trade shows, fairs, you name it. And honestly, a free tee-shirt just doesn’t mean all that much. I mean, really, do you wear your free tee-shirts anywhere you actually want to be seen?

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Whiz! Bam! Pow! Our Featured IndieGoGo Project

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If you’ve been around our blog, you know we like to support indie filmmakers whenever we can. Today’s post is an interview with cutting-edge indie, Tyler Weaver, who also runs an awesome blog called Multi-Hyphenate.

Whiz!Bam!Pow!

With what may be the most action-packed title of all time, Tyler is creating a “transmedia” experience, and he’s using IndieGoGo as a tool to raise funds and awareness for his project.

Trans-huh?

Entertainment is changing at a rapid pace, and Tyler Weaver’s bravely living on the bloodiest bleeding edge. Take a look at his pitch video for Whiz!Bam!Pow! and read his info-packed interview below.

What Tyler Weaver’s doing with Whiz!Bam!Pow! just may be your sneak peek at the future of indie-storytelling.

BTW, on Twitter? Follow Tyler @tylerweaver, and of if you’re not already, please follow us @JokeAndBiagio.

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Joke and Biagio: The Shocking True Story

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Well, we’re extremely flattered to finally have made it into my hometown newspaper, Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer.

lebroncgone.jpgIn my earliest memories of my Dad he’s holding his coveted sports page from this very paper. I helped a friend deliver The Plain Dealer on paper route he had for a while, and even found my gig performing singing telegrams in its very pages. (Story for another day.)

And of course, The Plain Dealer recently covered the story that broke my heart. But no LeBron today.

How’d We Get Here Again?

I had to laugh reading the story…it’s kind of ridiculous when you go through it beat by beat. But if you ever wanted to know the true story about how a kid from Parma, Ohio and a sweet girl from Knokke Heist, Belgium, got together and started working in Hollywood, read on…

Here’s Joke and Biagio in Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer.

Free Film Festival Secrets

Just a quick post to tell you about an incredible free resource we stumbled upon recently. It’s the site of Christopher Holland, Film Festival Secrets
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Not only is his site jam-packed with information to give you film festival success, but Mr. Holland has written a free e-book that is the must-download free e-book of the decade (excuse my enthusiasm, but it’s terrific.)

Click here to download the full, free e-book, Film Festival Secrets from Christopher’s site.

You Can Also Get the Hard Copy

If you love the free ebook so much that you’d like to show Christopher your gratitude, you can buy the hard copy of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook For Independent Filmmakers. (WARNING: That’s our Amazon account, so if you get it here, you’re supporting our indy doc Dying to do Letterman.)

Christopher on Twitter

You can find Christopher Holland on Twitter, and of course, if you’re not already doing it, follow us on Twitter, too!

A Hands-On Producer Rings His Bell

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Writer, Producer, Director Angelo Bell is a hands-on kind of guy

We Love Hands-On People

If you’ve been around this blog, you know that we can’t say it enough: if you want to break in to Hollywood, go make some stuff.

Even if you finish a film you never show anyone, you’ll be leaps and bounds ahead of all those “wannabes” who never “get to be.”

Guys like David Baker (who we did a series of posts on here) know that creating your own opportunities leads to career success.

Meet Angelo Bell

Angelo’s one of those guys who’s taking his career into his own hands. Rather than sit back and whine that Hollywood wasn’t banging down his door, he charged ahead and made his own opportunities.

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