Chapter 17

Spanning the Globe with Your Movie

IN THIS CHAPTER…

Bullet Showing your movie

Bullet Tips for social media

Bullet Uploading to video sites

Bullet Protecting intellectual property

After buckling down and working your fingers to the bone as you go that extra mile, along with any other idioms you choose to throw into the mix when it comes to describing the efforts you put into your masterpiece, the time has come to show it to an audience.

But this isn’t 1984, so your options don’t entail tacking a white bedsheet to the wall or stacking books under your projector for alignment. Nor is it 2004, when capturing tape playback from a DV camcorder required fingers crossed that the system didn’t crash.

Today’s choices offer more variety than the menu in your favorite coffee house chain. Showing your 4K movie on a large-screen LED television, uploading to a video site like Vimeo, or shipping it off for consideration to a film festival are a few potential options. Maybe you’re not conventional in your pursuit of an audience, and it’s the kind of piece that’s got TikTok written all over it. Or maybe Tweeting ...

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