Filmmaking

Your own films, the people who crew them, and a website for each project.

Adding someone to My Crew

Name, company, role, a short bio, a website and an IMDb link. You enter a person once here and they can be dropped onto any film project website witho...

Adding stills to a film site

Stills come from your Media library rather than being uploaded again here, so add them under Media then Photos first. Caption them and drag them into ...

Asking for a film project website

A film project website is a separate site for one film, on its own address, built from material you already have here. Ask for it from this page and c...

Building the end-credit roll

The roll is built line by line, in the order it plays, and it accepts headings and gaps as well as names. Use the headings the industry uses and put t...

Listing the crew on a film site

Names, roles, short bios and IMDb links, drawn from My Crew so you enter a person once and use them on every film. Credit the people whose involvement...

Marking a credit as your own film

This promotes a credit from a line on your resume into a project you control. A film you have marked can have its own crew, its own stills and its own...

My Crew

The people you work with, kept in one place so you do not retype them for every project. Add a name, a role, a short bio, a website and an IMDb link. ...

My Films

If you make films rather than only appear in them, this is where you say which of your credits are yours. Mark a credit as your film and it becomes a ...

Removing a film from My Films

This stops treating a credit as a film you control. It does not delete the credit, which stays on your resume exactly as it was, and it does not delet...

The design of a film project website

An accent color, the fonts and a banner image. The banner is the first and largest thing anybody sees, so it wants to be a still that reads at a glanc...

The IMDb page and trailer on a film site

Two links: the film's IMDb page and its trailer. The trailer is embedded rather than linked, so it plays on the page, which is the single thing most v...

The wording on a film project website

Title, tagline, logline, description, production company and dates. The logline is the one that does the work: one sentence, present tense, saying wha...

Tying a crew member to a film, or to none

A crew member can belong to one film or to none at all. Leave the film blank for somebody you work with often and they stay available for whatever you...

Your film's own website

A film project website is a separate site for one film, on its own address, built from the material you already have here. The editor is in sections. ...

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