Here are some pics of my newest movie, "Rebecca". Unfortunately, I don't have the money to put the film on this site. But tell me what you think of these stills!

This is Rebecca, a girl who gets posessed by a Ouija board:


This is Rebecca about to kill one of her freinds:


This is teh aftermath of a long battle with Rebecca:


This is the axe Rebecca uses:


This is the DVD cover:

WOW THOSE ARE HUGE PICTURES.....SORRY ABOUT THAT!!!!!!!

looks like fun. you going to mail out DVDs?

this movie was made with a $0.00 budget, because I am still in school. I dont have enough money to send out dvds. sorry

well that's why you charge people for the DVD, the packaging, and the mailing.

how much does it cost you to put all that stuff together do you think?

well, each dvd is about 3 dollars, and the cases are about 2 dollars each and the ink used to print the covers is like $.02 so yeah

if you do a small quantity like 50, you can get dvds for 80 cents and cases for 40 cents. My guess is you can put the dvd together for less than 2 bucks and then whatever shipping packages and mailing costs would be added to that. Then you could sell your film at a reasonable rate (5-10 bucks). And, bigmovie is wrong. If you haven't cleared the music, it's illegal to send people dvds regardless of if there's money involved. ...but lots of people do it.

From Boulder, eh? My whole family's from Boulder and my bro goes to CU right now.

boulder rocks.
yeah, i made the move about 2 years ago, it was teh first movie i made, so all the music is from different horror movies. so the music is kina illegally there. so i dont think i can sell it.

this may be more expensive then you're willing to risk, but ELS is one of the best short-run DVD houses there is. they made me 100 DVDs with thermal printing on the disc and photo-quality jacket for about $6 per disc. I've already made costs back and $400 profit by selling 50 of them

were they duplicated or replicated?

you're not selling it, you're just covering your cost of producing them. like joren said, legally you're only allowed to make one copy (i think) of a song you purchase, and that's it. technically you can never make copies of it ever because you're breaking the licensing agreement.

but people still make tapes for their friends where they copy the song. he's not selling them on Amazon.com, he's giving them out to people to see.

here's another secret: people use copyrighted music on their Demo Reels all the time, and they don't clear it with anyone, because no one really cares, it's just a demo reel.

so i can sell the dvds but not make a profit legally? but if i make a profit then it's illegal? am i right?

love the tagline:

"She Has Tons Of Friends,
Shes Gonna Kill Them All"

Great!

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Originally posted by shmoodles17:
so i can sell the dvds but not make a profit legally? but if i make a profit then it's illegal? am i right?

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sort of. if you're just selling the DVDs for what it costs you to sell them, if anyone ever asks about it you can say you were just doing it to show off what you can do with no intention of profitting (which is true), but no one is going to ever go after some highschool kid that's doing some small project.

joren - they were duplicated. thats how they can give a reasonable cost for such a short run. they are however, excellent duplications. they load instantly in every player i've tested, as opposed to some computer burned dvds where it takes half a minute to figure out what you just stuck in it. anyway - it was a great deal (IMO) bet someone on here will tell me it wasn't

Well, how much did that cost you in total?

$6.00 a disc is kinda' expensive in my opinion... I'd be comfortable with $4.00... probably because I'm Canadian. ...And despite the fact our dollar is the highest it's been since '92.

Anywho... my other question is... TiDoughnut, how did you get 50 people to buy the DVD? Did they just give in because it was so well made? Was the movie that good? Were they friends?
I'm not trying to be a dick, I just don't understand how?
I have a hard time believing I could sell anything to anyone (even if it were a DVD made of cimematic gold)... or maybe all the people who are potential buyers are just dicks...

So?

Ademu, I wouldn't worry, according to ELS's current quotes it looks like TD got boned. Of course I could be reading the thing wrong or doing weird math in my head. I mean, if TD's talking as if he paid what he did for fifty DVDs it the numbers still don't add up, I dunno, look at the site, they seem neat. Of course that's just cause they're the only short run DVD duplication company I'm aware of.

-Elliott

ok, let me be a little more clear

i paid ~$650 including overnight shipping both ways (which got screwed up and had me intercepting the UPS truck in a car, btw) for 100 DVDs. Thats $6.50 per DVD. They had photographic printing on the jacket cover and thermal printing on the disc, so they were not as cheap as I could have made them.

I sold them at a giant conference of homeschoolers which invited me to show my film, because I am homeschooled. I sold around 30 of them at $18 each, made $540. So basically, I have no clue why they bought them, but they did. I estimate one out of 10 families bought a copy.

I sold another 20 when my film showed to 108 complete strangers at a local cinema. And of course, the cast bought a bunch for their actual cost.

Was I more clear? And sorry for hijacking this thread - didn't mean to!

edit: wow - looking at their quote generator now it appears they have lowered their prices by nearly $200. I can't find my receipt to check for sure. lol - oh well. i sold them all, and it was still the best price i could find

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That's a cool story TD, I really just wanted to say that you got boned, it made me laugh to myself. Ha how I laugh.

-Elliott

boned? seems like he's in the black by a few hundy. Had he have waited for the price to drop, he couldn't have sold the dvds to make all that money.