Do you want to be a Contributor?
What we look for?
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All prospecting contributors must know that the article they submit for our consideration should be of interest to our readers. The article must have a tone that is appropriate for our audience, and it must be written by a person, and not by a PR department.
We like it when an article can introduce fresh ideas and thus advance dialogue and conversations around topics and trends that engage our readers—think op-ed rather than content marketing. We appreciate lively, polished writing that balances research or news with fun and memorable anecdotes or examples that help illustrate your point of view.
While we encourage you to draw from personal experiences in filmmaking (screenwriting, directing, producing, cinematography, production design, score composition etc.) to support your ideas, we discourage an over-the-top self-promotion (of yourself or your company), it will certainly prevent your article from being published. The same goes for dense or clustered jargon and abstract, blanket assertions.
How to be a contributor?
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Do you have something useful to share? – If you have a learned-experience or you overcame an enormous obstacle during the making of a film, sharing your knowledge can change the career of another filmmaker who may face the same problem
Do you want exposure? – For a beginning blogger, writer or film critic building a readership is a challenge. It is tough when no one knows who you are. Writing for Indieactivity will allow you to reach thousands of readers, test your skills, try your tenacity and gain you some visibility in blogosphere.
Links/Traffic – When you contribute an article, you’ll receive credit and a byline with a link to your site. This will send you a healthy dose of traffic and PageRank.
Contributor Guidelines
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Audience: independent filmmakers/industry
Budget: $0 to $1M (we focus only on films within these budgets)
What’s the point? To increase traffic, to get more social shares, to generate leads. to rank for keywords (‘indie’, ‘indiefilm’, ‘indieactivity’, ‘supportindiefilm’, ‘filmmaking’)
What’s the general criteria of a post that will be accepted?
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Original content requirements: We want original content, and authors
Pitch: Writers can submit articles on a regular basis, and pitches must be sent the way we specify so it’s quicker to assess them.
Time frames: It takes 2-3 weeks for us to respond to your pitches
Voice, tone and style: make it personal, friendly and interesting to read
Word count and formatting: articles must be between 600 – 900 words, single spaced
Quality: We expect written articles to have correct spelling, grammar and also punctuation
Images: Author must send in supporting images with high resolution or higher than 1200px x 800px
Links & author bio: The author can include a 1-2 bio with links (website, social media)
Rights: Author can re-publish the posts 2-3 weeks after they go live, with a link back to the original article on indieactivity
Formatting: Break things up with subheadings and plenty of white space, so readers aren’t overwhelmed
Editing: We edit for spelling, ease of reading, vocabulary, tone and style
Sharing: Authors should share this article to their websites, blogs, and/or social media outlets
Community participation: The author will be emailed when the articles goes live. The author is expects to comment on the post when it goes life.
Whom to contact: indieactivity@gmail.com
How to submit: Send your contribution as a Word attachment.
If you’re interested in writing here are a topics, or suggestions we’re particularly about.
Independent Film
Filmmaking
Crowdfunding
Distribution
Communities
Film markets
Networking
Work
Future of filmmaking
Tech
Filmmaking Equipments
Cinematography
Creative economy