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Getting your film SEEN in the Age of TH-cam is a different game. Your title and thumbnail have a huge effect in how many people will watch your movie. Give your short film or feature it's best shot by optimizing your title and thumbnail and planning ahead.
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 A mysterious visitor?!
01:25 Your film's title
06:31 Film titles on TH-cam
09:55 A message... FROM THE FUTURE
11:35 Posters, thumbnails, key art
12:27 Advice from a professional poster designer
15:01 Posters, thumbnails, key art - CONTINUED
17:01 Dude this is starting to feel invasive
About me:
I've been making short films for 20 years, starting at age 11. I directed my first feature film, Bad is Bad, in 2010. Made for only $6,000, the film went on to reach over 7 million views and garner critical acclaim. More recently, my short film, Will "The Machine", screened and won awards at film festivals around the world. Released online in 2019, it reached over 1 million views in just a month. I also work as a video editor, cutting ads for clients such as Apple, Netflix, and Beats by Dre.
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The “also get a vasectomy” line is absolute gold lmao
I've been watching Omeleto for a while now and noticed the titles too. They seem to have adapted pretty well to the social media sphere by just stating what the film is about in the title. Simple and effective. Great video btw!
Oh man…need to put some real thought into this for my first short film, which I’m putting together right now! Even though I’m just in the beginning of my filmmaking journey, I don’t want to mess this up…😆
Great content as usual! 👊😃
Yes! You give yourself a big advantage by planning these things out from the start. Good luck on the short!
I could do video editing, visual effects and post-processing for you,!!!!!
Man you just made me relise how many Omeleto shorts I've seen just because of their micro summary title approach alone. Definitely going to consider this approach wherever it seems most appropriate.
This is a great niche set of advice, so many things I never thought about, and I have watched a SLURRY of videos about releasing films and how to market them the right way. This is an original advice piece, worthy of attention. Well done!
The amount of information and great advice packed into this video is unreal. This channel really is turning into a one-stop shop for filmmakers. Appreicate it ❤📽
It's funny because I found out about your channel a couple weeks ago (love it btw), and thought that it would be great if you had tips about giving a great title to a short film, as I could not find a good video covering that topic on TH-cam.
And here you are, posting the exact video I was hoping for! Awesome! Love this style of videos, with some humor and special effects, it's entertaining and informative, keep it up!
You are great inspire! I was working on TV for 3 years and hate what i've been doing there. My main dream has always been to make a feature film and only now I am starting to make it come true. I've already made three short films, and one of them even got to film festival in South Korea (I was so happy), and I want to make another 9 short films in 9 months and after to start working on the feature.
I don't know how but my trailer to short film "Stuck at work" got 8k+ views, that's crazy)) Now I love what I'm doing, and wanna say thank to you! You are a great inspire! And I love your videos and movies, especially Will The Machine. Can't wait for your third feature, it's gonna be sick!
I saw the wall clock at the start and instantly knew you were a Back To The Future fan. Then the time travel happened with the BTTF sound effects. Great Scott! Loved the video, thank you for highlighting these to us. Very helpful!
Awesome vid man, love the extra thought with the "you from the future" gimmick! And very informative! Thanks
I think short films on youtube need to be talked about more. Thanks!
this was super useful man! thanks for all the tips and info packed into this video. funny af too 😂
I don’t think I will ever name a short film that I make “That Thing” in my life🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope no one else does it too unless a big studio is backing them up.
Thank you. This is of great value (and I hope people continue to come and see it). And what a freakin' great poster on "Will 'The Machine'"!
I like the title idea from Omeleto. "Short film" is not compelling enough. Your video is full with useful tips and ideas. And congrats on a future baby
Thanks! You’ve given us a lot to think about!
Thank you I hadn't thought much about this aspect of a finished film. Learned a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
I loved the back from the future skit, so creatively carried out!
I love that Welcome to Kitytown thumbnail design. The former one looked kind of low budget and cheap. The re-edit is gorgeous and intriguing.
Not many channels actually make me chuckle and laugh out loud. Genius tips too.
Great job - really useful and well made too.
Best way to make a Brand ad I ve Seen on TH-cam
Excellent video! Haha laughed so much when future self first appeared! But yeah great points here. Do you ever test thumbnails on your Instagram? Ask the audience type thing?
No but that's a great idea. I usually get feedback from a more experienced TH-camr friend before posting which has been very helpful. You wouldn't believe how bad the original thumbnail for this video was 😬
Great advice. I've seen a ton of short films on TH-cam. I watch Omeleto, DUST, ALTER, and so many other channels that host short films. But I like to try films outside of the network-like channels. The best short I've ever seen is called Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times. I found it in the wild, and the title piqued my interest immediately. I'm so glad I watched it, because it was perfect. The structure, acting, and ending. I cannot recommend watching it enough. Years of looking for the perfect short film, and I just found it a couple weeks ago. Better late than never!
My only complaint with channels like ALTER is that they have a bad habit of using a shot from the end of the movie as the thumbnail. It is infuriating, and a slap in the face to those who went through the trouble of making the films. A twelve minute long film, and ALTER will just be like, "Hey! Here's an eye-catching thumbnail to entice you into watching it!" only to find out that they used a shot from the last minute of the film.
Do you think you can make a video about tips on making a short horror movie. Things like making the viewers feel vulnerable when watching, building up tension, sound design ETC? I would greatly appreciate it! Also love you content, I'm a college student who is studying movie production so your content helps a lot!
Great idea 🙏
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Really useful video, love stuff like this.
Amazing - thank you for this.
"Semi-autobiographical, found footage, time travel film..." ouch, that was a personal attack.
Lol, I'm loving this channel. Very helpful!
this channel is soooooo underated!!!
Love it man
Awesome watch. I had already begun to think about the Omeleto naming convention
great video thanks!!!!
Mmmmmmm interesting, yet I'm still learning, I really need to remember to make a thumbnail. And first of all, I better start to find a cool title for a couple of shorts I need for a film school contest.
You know I actually really liked how "Will 'The Machine'" sounded like a question as well as a name, I thought it was intentional and kinda clever.
You should be an actor. Your delivery is great! Content is awesome as well.
Thanks for the help brother
The ad was so creative 😂😂❤❤
Bro I love your videos
Acutally learned something here. I never knew anyone was ever searching for "Dramatic Short Film" or "Comedic Short Film" I guess there are some people looking for that huh?
For titles since you couldn't get in depth about them, I would suggest using rhetorical devices in titles like diacope, tricolon, Epizeuxis, oxymorons, etc. Rhetoric devices really elevate titles in my opinions.
"Money Fcker Island" was such a classic 💯🎥 well worth studying if you're getting into filmmaking early on 🔥🔥🔥
*monkey
I know I left a comment in Afrikaans but dude thanks so much for this!
Your advice, I am sure, is going to pay off!
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I have that same Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
I wonder if this era of catering to short attention spans will eventually reverse. When I heard that people watch ten minutes and then click on something else, I thought it was a joke. It's not. I think that business, not science or art, will make the change. After all, investing in something that has low probability of return is pointless, and at a certain point, business might require a change. Either that, or the government will change, and qualified filmmakers will get a base salary plus grants for movies and they can make movies for artistic reasons rather than for profit.
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Great Channel
Kent: Include a description of the movie in the title.
Light novel writers: I'm already four parallel universes ahead of you.
When you realize you have become your future self and it wasn’t who you thought it would be.
Hahah great video. Very funny lol you should try stand up comedy 😂
I saw the portraits in the back and thought they look like Chris Fornataro's work. Then I saw him in the Will the machine trailer.
Great video man, appreciate the info. A quick question tho, how did you get your movie to be uploaded on Omeleto?
I think they go for shorts that had a strong/award-winning film festival run. One of the producers connected me to them after we'd played at a bunch of fests. Their website should have a submission section.
@@StandardStoryCo Gotchu, thanks again for the good content. Maybe consider doing a video about where new directors can put their short movies on without needing to win awards before hand.
For the record, my autobiographical time travel movie isn't going to have very much found footage in it.
This guy looks like Make Art Now's brother
Nice video
I think al use this technique in my first short film titled [BAD DAY TO STEAL]
Nice
There once was a monkey… on an island….lol.
Thank you for this. You are hilarious
“Get a vasectomy!!”😂😂
Really interesting debate. If a movie is great then it doesn't matter what it's called. Even if a few people love it, word of mouth kicks in and creates a following, and, in many cases the more wacky the title the more intriguing, at the very least someone will check it out, out of curiosity, and if the movie is good they'll recommend it. Another way to look at this subject is to take your movie "Title" which will inevitably be something logical than something creative, let's call it a "Tell" rather than a "Show". Shaking hands? How else could that title idea be developed so its more intriguing, and so a potential consumer, doesn't just go, "I know what that film's about, next"...
You're funny Bro..
I actually learned this on our film Absence of the Heart.
That literally blew our film up this year. Good stuff.
WOW
Omg you actually bought the domain 😭😭😭😭
I’m here for the Felix the Cat clock.
How did you send your short film to omeleto. I mean what's the process?
A man finds a camera that reveals where and when he will meet his future girlfriend. 👍 (I didn’t even know what my short film’s longline was until I watched your video. I just added it as the title for my short film on TH-cam. We’ll see if it helps. Thank you for the advice. It is much appreciated. Your other videos are very helpful too.) 👍
Where is The Hands You Shake? I really want to check it out but I can’t find it
Short story: I took it offline.
Long story: th-cam.com/video/aigETGd9-j8/w-d-xo.html
@@StandardStoryCo man I was hoping to watch it at some point but I get it. Love your stuff man
What if the thumbnail I photoshop onto is better than mine and I would click it, but I don't know because it is covered by mine?
You mention that TH-cam will take a frame from the film and use that for the poster. Is there any way to control which frame is selected?
Yes, you can choose to upload a photo as thumb image after the upload.
Just commenting cuz I want to see how long I've been following the channel
Hey now, you don't gotta shade Lauryn Hill, That Thing is a catchy song lol
So weird how the concept of "one hit wonder" is somehow a bad thing when most people don't get to do anything with their life
I just realized you look Like the Actor from 'You".
This video could bomb online.. but the mysterious time traveler store the script....
"Get a vasectomyyy" 😵😵😅😅
My understanding is that the algorithm doesn't support stand alone films. Occasionally one will hit but that's mostly due to audience from your other content coming over to to get the ball rolling. Am I right?
THATS ME
Where the heck do you find all the actors? I film nobody but myself. 😅😅😅😅
I uploaded a 15 seconds short where I am playing both handed table tennis but only a few hundred views 🤔 the TH-cam algorithm isn’t my friend 🙈
“Welcome to hell…” Your comedic relief is perfect, dude 😂
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Hello sir
I'm from India & i watch your every videos regularly. I want to see ur 2nd feature film 'the hands you shake '
Where can i watch this film? 🤔
Please reply 🙏
Short story: I took it offline.
Long story: th-cam.com/video/aigETGd9-j8/w-d-xo.html
@@StandardStoryCo thanks for reply 😇
Can't i watch that either in anyway?
😂😂😂so good
I'm Making my first short films any tips
My man I got a whole youtube channel full of them 😉
@@StandardStoryCo yea I know right know I'm just so stuck with the story and I'm scared that it will suck
We all feel that way, just gotta power through and if it does end up sucking, learn what you can from it so the next one doesn't. Good luck!
@@StandardStoryCo thank you
@@belivaboy One piece of advice I can offer in the grand scheme of writing is that I often practice writing loglines for the many project ideas floating in my head. During this brief writing phase I try identify a primary theme and assign a potential title to that idea. After a while of doing this I have ended up with a repertoire of pitches, and it has given me the ease of mind to more easily see which Loglines stand out to me as being the most viable option to pursue now that I'm finally gearing up to start making short films.
In short this alone has given me something to more confidently fall back on in the likely case of failure and/or rejection.
I’d totally watch a movie called Monkey F**ker Island.
Thank you for all the hints & advice. I'm going nuts on how to promote my channel & film. Moreover, I'll like to promote my recent xmas film, Christmas Gift. The support will be greatly appreciated.
Is it ok that I watched an ad for $97 film school in the middle of your video? After all, that adds to your Adsense money, right?
I'll take it!
Your future self was pretty damn amusing. 👍
I can't wait till I become him.
If it runs for Artlist. Why will they need someone to travel back in time to fix anything? 😁
why don't you change titles and thumbnails for those older shorts that you don't like?maybe algorithm would pick them up
It's been on my to-do list for a while. Will def play with them eventually
hi i could work for you!!!!!!
It’s funny because the thumbnail shows 37 views and I have 37 views for the short film on my channel.
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"... also get a vasectomy." 😎
If a tree falls in a TH-cam forest and there was no algorithm around to hear it, would it still get a like/subscribe?
I made over 120 short videos and all for free...
No need to get a vasectomy - Just stay away from the Procreator Plan.
Yooooo 😂
I know one guy who is an absolute pro at this. DHAR MANN
Good video. It does crack me up, tho that your professional art guy says: "It's all about the image" while speaking in a camera shot with way too much headroom...