How to start commercial film production business

Start your commercial film production business

Part 01
The filmmaking industry has definitely seen a major rise in filmmakers and up-and-coming cinematographers, but once in a while, a few serious ones consider putting up their own film production company.
Like every form of commercial art, filmmaking can be both fulfilling as a craft and as a lucrative business. So if you are serious about taking your love for films and filmmaking to the next level, here are a few helpful tips on how you can start your very own production company.

Step by Step Guide??  
We’ll be honest: there’s no single path for putting up a production company. You’ll have to be prepared to read a hundred more articles, seek the help of industry professionals, and learn from experience before you can actually consider yourself an expert.
Nonetheless, let our guide on how to start a film production company give you a good glimpse of what’s to come in your long and exciting journey ahead.

Establish Your Company as a Legal Business Entity

Now matter how small your films are going to be, you’ll first need to officially register your business. This involves naming your company (a simple Google and IMDB search can help you verify whether or not it’s already been taken), seeking some legal advice, and consulting a trusted accountant for your taxes.
Establishing yourself as a legal entity also includes opening a bank account under the company’s name, having a business address, contact numbers, and building your own website—also using the company name and an official .com domain.

Social Media

Don’t forget to create social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and maybe even on Pinterest and YouTube, to put your company on the map and allow more people to find you.

Create a Business Plan for Your Film

Having a solid business plan for your film will give your company better chances of achieving success. This particular step involves a ton of paperwork and maybe even more advice from experts, but they are essential for ensuring that you’ve got your bases covered to eliminate risks of setbacks, especially if you’re going to be spending significant amounts of money and dealing with important people in the industry.
It helps to make your business plan as specific yet realistic as possible and should include the following:

Confidentiality agreement Specific goals for the company and your film The kind (and size) of the team that you’ll need for it Proposed budget with estimates Target date and schedule for filming and release Where and how you plan on finding investors Campaign and fundraising plans
Film business plans normally also include your Distribution Strategy.

Raise Money for the Production of Your Film

With your business plan set, it’s time to start campaigning for your film and raise enough funds to finally get your production rolling. Fortunately, there are a few effective ways to do this without actually having to beg for the money or visiting your investors one by one.

Successful film companies would advise the following strategies:
Presenting your business plan to big production companies or studios Partner up with another producer Applying for government funding Seeking brand sponsorships in exchange for product placement Launching a crowdfunding campaign Finding an “angel investor”
Remember to try your best to stick to your budget plan and cultivate good connections with those who can (and can’t) help you with your project, so you can establish and maintain your credibility in the years to come.

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Blogging for money

Learn to earn from Blogging

Basic Blogging

People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.

Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home. Unlike any other job, if you are blogging from home. You don’t need to work 9-5. You can work at any time of the day with ease.

But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you. So I suggest you jump into this field slowly. If you have a day job, don’t quit it. Start part-time with your blog.

Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits then it’s the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode.

Requirement 

Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way. For a complete beginner, a day or two would be sufficient to be ready with the basic setup.

Time Required For Starting A Blog ;

The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily start a blog within few hours.

How To Start 

You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog’s topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog’s relevant pages.
You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you.
Another way is you can place Google Ad-sense ads on your blog. More people click on your ads more money you will make.

Tips -

1. Start a blog about something in which you are really good at.

2. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don’t put content about multiple domains in one blog. Keep your blog specific to one domain only.

3. Using your experience and expertise, try to create a very unique and phenomenal content.

4. Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a difference in your reader's’ life.

5. Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always reply to their comments. Make them feel better.

6. Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love and it will flourish. Ignore it and it will die a death.

7. Think about content, style, tone of voice, audience, etc. Look at the people who already do what you’re planning to do.  

Ask yourself the following questions:

• How will I stand out from the crowd?
• What can I say that hasn’t already been said?
• What’s my unique selling point?
• Why do I want to do this?

8. Don’t criticize other brands, bloggers or people. . Remember what goes around comes around. You don’t want something you’ve said to come back and bite you one day.

Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog.

9. Be open minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You’ll meet some fantastic and awe-inspiring people.

Get connected to learn advance blogging to earn handsome amount of money.

How to sell photographs online

Hobby can be earning source.

Suitable For -
Who have the passion for photography.

Skills Required -

1. Ability to take versatile and creative photos.
2. Time Required For Starting Photography - If you are an experienced photographer you can start almost instantly.
3. If you are new you might need time to learn photography. Learning time completely depends on how quickly you grasp the concepts.

How To Monetize -
There are many ways to earn a lot of money from photography, mentioning a few.

1. Sign up at the following websites, upload your photographs and start earning money once people start buying them.

iStockPhoto.com 

SmugMug.com 

Alamy.com 

GettyImages.com 

Fotolia.com

2. Remember, creativity is really necessary for photography. You will have to bring more professionalism and creativity in your photographs to start earning a good income. Merely taking random photographs from your cell phone or a digital camera is not going to work here.

3. You can even start your own photography website and sell your photographs directly from there.

Aesthetics of Smartphone Photography.

Method 02.

Setting Up Your Shot

Satyajit Ray at Apu - Triology

Read method 3 to earn money with your smart phone photography .

The Steps are given below with example.                                     

1. Avoid subjects in low light. 

At least if you want them to be consistently lit. The small sensors in camera phones cannot run at high ISO speeds (i.e. high sensitivity to light, permitting indoor photos without a flash) without introducing large amounts of noise. In most circumstances, this precludes indoor photos other than in the best-lit places.

If you have to shoot indoors, consider what artificial lighting sources you have. Avoid fluorescent light, as it can cast a green tint on your subjects.

Make sure you camera is stable in low light. Camera phones slow the shutter speed in low light, and this can capture any movement you make and blur your photo.

2. Avoid bright reflections, and other "hot-spots". 

This will either force the camera to under-expose the rest of the shot, or cause the camera to blow out the highlights on the brightest parts of the shot. The latter is worse, since it is sometimes possible to extract details from parts of the image that are too dark, but impossible to recover blown highlights (since there is no detail therein to extract). On the other hand, this can be used to artistic ends, such as with bright light streaming through a window. People pictures will look best in diffuse lighting such as open shade, under a cloudy sky, or in bright artificial light. Try to include bright colors, which will show up well, rather than a range of light and dark areas (which will both lose detail).

3. Avoid anything that requires tight focusing. 

Due to their very short focal lengths (the distance between a camera's optical elements and the sensor, again, owing to their small sensors), camera phones excel at shots where nearly all of a scene is in focus. However, this (and their typically weak auto-focus mechanisms) usually precludes focusing on objects very close to the phone, or having a very shallow depth of field to get a blurred background effect (which can, with varying degrees of authenticity, be faked in software later anyway).

4. Avoid "mirror shots".

Model : Vineeta Kimberly

As well as arm-length shots taken by yourself. Mirrors also often end up confusing auto-focus mechanisms. Get outside and get someone to take the photo for you. If you'd rather take the picture yourself, most camera phones have an auto-timer feature so you can set the phone somewhere and get into frame.

5. Keep your subject big and prominent.

Fine details, such as leaves on trees at a distance, will be smeared out.

It is best to shoot things as close to the subject as possible. If you can get up close to your subject and frame it tightly, you will get the best results.

Most Smartphone cameras have a digital zoom, but using this won't help you get detailed pictures from far away. Using this is just essentially cropping your picture on the screen rather than during editing.

6. Keep your background clutter free.

Camera phones won't automatically focus on the foreground and do not have settings to do so.

7. Use your flash judiciously.

If you find yourself using a flash because your whole scene is insufficiently lit, you're probably taking photographs indoors in poor light. Don't do this, and go back to the first step; a scene lit entirely by your flash will look un-natural, since on a camera phone it is not typically possible to aim the flash anything but directly ahead (i.e. you can't bounce it off ceilings or walls, as with dedicated flash guns for SLR cameras). On the other hand, a flash is a good option for filling in shadows in harsh sunlight. [Get connected with us to learn about Light in another post].

8. Frame your shot.

Make sure that everything you want in the shot is in the picture, and ready to be captured. Some phones show the entire viewfinder, meaning that what is on the screen is exactly what will be captured in the image. Other phones, however, only show what is in the middle of the image, but will capture more than the viewfinder shows. Err on the side of putting too much empty space into your picture; you can always crop it later.

Use the rule of thirds. When composing a picture, imagine two horizontal lines and two vertical lines crossing like a tic-tac-toe grid on top of it. Place strong lines and divisions like the horizon on the gridlines. Let elements of interest fall on the intersections.

9. Use a backdrop when shooting still scenes. 

A black background is a good start, as it can make objects and colors pop in your photo.

Black velvet material is a good choice because it absorbs all light that hits it. It will help diminish shadows and reflections.

Make sure the fabric is taught, as wrinkles will show up in the photo and distract from the subject.

10. Finally, take the picture.

Keep your hand steady as you press the shutter button. After you take the picture, keep the phone in position to allow the picture to be recorded. If you move immediately after pressing the shutter button, often times you will just get a blur! Better to use phone tripod or steadier. 

11. Save the picture to your phone.

If desired, copies it to your computer for any post-processing, and shows it to your friends!

 Read method 3 to earn money with phone photography .

Tips

The steadier you keep the phone as you are taking the picture, the sharper the image will be.

If you are taking a picture of yourself without a front camera, use a mirror as help. Point the camera towards your face so the screen of your phone is facing the mirror. By doing that it will look like someone else took the picture.(unless your arm is in the picture) and when taking the picture you will be able to see how your picture ends up as.

Develop Your Smartphone Photography

Method 01.

Setting Up Your Phone for Better Pictures

1. Clean the lens.
Over time the camera lens can collect lint and create a blurred image. Just give it a good wipe with a clean cloth.

2. Set your phone to its highest picture quality and resolution. 
You might end up taking a good enough shot that you want to print it out; you won't be able to do this if you only have a low-resolution version of the photo.

3. Turn off picture frames.
A normally great shot may be ruined by a cheesy frame or background; if you really must have one, add the frame after you take the picture.

4. Turn off any other effects.
These include black-and-white, sepia tones, inverted colors, and so on. These aren't as necessarily as cheesy-looking as frames and have their place; nonetheless, these things are much better done in photo editing software later on than on board the phone. You may find, for example, that when you view your photo on a large screen that the colors in your scene are far too good to lose to black-and-white.

5. Set the white balance. 
The human eye usually adjusts for lighting, and so white appears white in any kind of lighting. A camera, however, will see that a given subject is redder than normal under normal incandescent household lighting. Better camera phones will give you the option to adjust the camera for this. If you have such an option, use it. If you're not sure what setting to use, experiment.

Tips

Make sure your phone has enough free memory to keep taking pictures. If your phone is full, download some of the pictures from the phone to save room. Most mobile phones nowadays support Micro SD or other memory cards that allow the phone's capacity to be raised. Even something as small as a 1GB Micro SD card can hold hundreds more pictures.

Be an online Tutor

Sell video courses

Udemy is an online learning marketplace. It has a huge collection of courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much more. You can create a course in text, audio and video formats.

Every course is available on demand and students can learn at their own pace, on their own time and on any device.

 Suitable For - 
 People who like to teach, explain and solve problems.

 Skills Required - 

•  In-depth knowledge of any domain of your choice. 
•  Ability to express knowledge in easily understood form.  
•  Ability to create and record high-quality videos.  

Time Required For Creating A Video Course - Depends on the scope of the course, number of modules included and time required for preparation.

Tips -
 1. Pick a topic in which you are specialized in.
 2. Study the courses relevant to your topic and see how many people are interested and have actually enrolled in the courses. This will give you a rough understanding of the people who are interested in your topic and willing to invest in your course.
 3. Study the other available courses and find out the things which you can offer that will make your course much better, different than other available courses.
 4. Identify your audience level and then create the course content. For e.g. You need to first decide whether your course is for a beginner level or an expert level audience. Then accordingly you need to create your course content which appeals to the right audience.
 5. Make sure your course title and description is optimized for appealing your target audience. Try to answer the frequent questions that your audience asks in your course description.
 6. Deliver at least 80% of your course in video format as it is the most engaging way of interaction. Also keep the length of each video lesson between 2-10 minutes.
 7. Build a rapport with the audience, and engage. You can always do a quiz ups between lectures to make it engrossing and interactive.

 How To Monetize :

1.  Udemy gets a lot of daily visitors so there is a good chance that your course will get noticed   and people will enroll in and you will start earning money. 
2.  You can even start a small blog on your course-related topics and promote your course. 
3.  More people sign up for your course more money you make.

Start your Video Production

Video creation and editing 

 

Videos are all hot commodity right now, but not everyone knows how to make them, let alone edit them.  This is why are you could offer a video creation or editing service.

Video creation service

Using free tools found online,  you can quickly learn how to combine text pictures and audio and turn those elements into a video for online customers.

Here’s a short list of free online tools that you can use to get started:

·         Audacity for audio files

·         camstudio for creating videos

·         openoffice.org for presentation software similar to PowerPoint

·         jeans for creating screen captures

·          www.dmoz .org  for royalty free  musical loops directories for adding music to the videos that you Create.

Video editing services

Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, you can easily sell your services to edit videos.

if you are a total newbie at this,  you will find hundreds of tutorials online,  both written and as videos showing you how to edit a video.

it will not take you very long to understand how everything works.  it will take you an even shorter amount of time as you get better at this  task.

to edit videos for clients,  these are the components that you will ask your customer to provide to you.

1.      A script - the word that will go on each slide within the video presentation.  The goal is 10 words or less for each slide; the simpler the better is what creates an effective message.

2.      A musical   loop in a MP3 format -  You can purchase musical loops by category and have them shipped to you on CD or you can download the loops to your computer.

3.      Sometimes the customer will provide a voice over - which is an audio file that you will need to add to the video.

The audio format varies depending upon how they were recorded and saved.  Make sure you understand which file you will be able to work with according to the free software that you downloaded from the Internet.

In summary, using free tools that you can find online you can learn how to create and edit videos for customers.

How to monetize

You can sell these services to individual business owners by approaching them through email on their website contact form.

You can advertise your work for hire services in any of the online forums, and you may even offer your services to webmasters as an add-on bonus pack for their customers.

You can even start a video creation or editing gig on Fiverr.com or register yourself as a video Creator and editor on upwork.com

The video creation and editing market is wide open right now and serious cash in ready to be  made. 

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