Joe's Write's The Modern Filmmaker's Bible: How to Be a YouTube Indie Filmmaker and Producer

How to Be a YouTube Indie Filmmaker and Producer

(no budget required)

Things to Keep In Mind When Favoriting Videos

(For Posterity, Fans, Other Filmmakers, Broadcasting Networks, The Press, Producers, Movie Studios, Neo-Hollywood, Aspiring Filmmakers and Producers, Fans, Otaku, and Anyone Else Watching My Shit Who's Curious)

Notes of a Super-Genius

• Youtubes never cost anything. Aside from paying for video budgets, your budget 95% of the time is $0.00, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
• Showcase and show off your favorite things with people. The public, the masses, the world, friends, enemies(?), the world, your fans, the press, journalists, celebrities, power players, producers, other filmmakers, directors, broadcasting networks. Anyone? No one? You never know ahead of time actually most of the time
• Post Anonymously, especially if your violating copyright, which you can, and both should and shouldnt depending on how poor you are and your situation. Just remember,in terms of identity and how much you contribute, what you contribute, how much, and at what level, there is a cosmos of difference between being a fan and filmmaker. The latter is considered to be a more desirable and high pressure position. But there is less a whole ton less fear, intimidation, snarkiness, and pressure to running a successful youtube operation than there is to running, say, DeviantART, or Adult Swim, or Viz, or Dream works. They actually have Money. Well, Google does too and they have it in more countries than ANY of those guys, easily, but that's not the point. The point is not all people operating on Google ARE Google, Work for Google, Make Money through Google, or Cooperate With google
• Google doesn't mind porn in it's search engines. Just not stuff that's completely illegal and the people distributing it know it, and it's hurting people's reputations, lives, minds, and careers, etc. You all know better people. If you want to be treated equally, don't break the rules, “terms of service”, and law every 2 seconds. Sexual reference, youthful sexuality (teen), risque euro ero, yuri, romance (gasp, not just sex??),
• A feminie point of view. Human romantic relationships, are not generally condemned on YouTube, but most o f us are geeks and they make a lot of YouTube fans avoid them and skip to the next video JPEG and clip. But if you WANT to go there for a few minutes or thirty minutes for a few scenes or one concept, be my guest. Female filmmakers are welcome at YouTube. Just remember girls, there is still stigma out there, so be wary of your video comments
• Music is welcome on YouTube. As is Political Causes and General Equality, AS LONG AS
• YouTube blurs just as many lines, rules, divisions, categories, genres, mediums, cultures, and nations as it defines. Behold the Power of Social Media and the Internet.
• Linking is Good. Music is Good. Anime is Good. Information is Good. Film is Good. Animation is Good. Technical Ability and Technique is Good. Strategy is Good. Quality is Good. Originality and Uniqueness is Good, Even if it is a variation of a repeated thing.
• YouTube is JUST as open minded as Google and Twitter and LinkedIn. Don't Deny it.
• YouTube is neither Google nor Not entirely Google, nor NEVER Google, it just is. Is a Walkman Sony, or is it a Walkman?
• If you're a REAL fan of YouTube Videos and Their publishers and distributors and supporting your favorite tubers, you must be just as willing to watch 2 seperate videos with equal consideration. The one with 2 views, and the one with 200,000.
• But you do have to be willing to play “armchair therapist as a mentor for the gal who once only had 2 measly hits who wrote you an email and said you saved her life and career and said you saved her life and career by making here a millionaire brand and icon in the otaku community when you favorited her Toonami and drove her popularity through the roof from a struggling middle school anime fan to a Hollywood player that one time. Yup, that happens a lot. AND VICE VERSA! That's why some videos on YouTube DO get 1,000,000,000 views, and then suddenly stop getting views at one point
• Radio Friendly and Catchy. Doesn't have to be. It can be just as dissonant, as long as there is some form of higher meaning there.
• No everyone reads between the lines: Dialogue context and subtext, Screen composition and mise en scene, video editing and order, video length, publisher name or reputation, who made what, How much the video costed to publish, who's watching, what people in the comments section are saying (do we really read ALL video comments, what hollywood's opinion is, what the fan opinion is, how many people are linking to the video, who's aware you're the publisher or favoriter or fan comment giver, whether your comments are being flagged or commented on, or favorited, or linked on other sites by pros or fans or haters or not), but sometimes it does help to make your choices accordingly, in according to these things in on a subliminal context, not just because you like them.
• Haters sometimes gonna hate, though not always,and not always when you're more influential
• You can make a living from you tube, but it can be depressing and frustrating if that's your only incentive, not the quality of your reputation on you tube, your relationship with your viewers, how much people love you, what your publishing, how much your helping people, and how big the scope of your audience is. And audience size can be deceiving in and of itself, YouTube viewer figures are pretty accurate and honest for how big they are, believe it or not (for the most part), but they can still get manipulated behind the scenes when we're less likely to pay attention or get aware. Like any other only publisher in their published stats and anaytics, billion audience things can register as “1 hit” (yyyyyaaaaaayyyy!!! - Peter Griffin), and 1 hit videos can be platinum sellers in disguise, or PRODUCED BY A NOBEL WINNER OR BILLIONAIRE who really wants to be your best friend or gain your trust and friendship behind closed doors, but doesn't want you too get too sought out or hassled like he ended up being as a result. There is a higher truth and wisdom behind many things happening on the YouTube Network system and community and genre, but it can be incredibly hard to explain quantify and track all the time. MUCH OF the time. But not all.
• Entertain us! Don't be intentionally dull, stupid, immature, offensive to the wrong people, mean to sensitive people, loud to quiet people, or boring to the easily bored, or too patient with the impatient. Some YouTube producers get mistaken for Jesus, and there is a DAMN GOOD reason for that, and not, it's not just always because of the username
• If you get some groove on with some of them hot hot YouTubeLove69 groupies, tell me how you did it. Cuz I ain't got NONE of that hot hot action yet like how John Lennon once did. I'm more of a Flint Lockwood.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Filmmaker