A picture is worth a thousand words is an old, popular phrase but within your post a picture is worth a few other things as well. Pictures - whether on-set, behind-the-scenes, celebrity, exclusives images, regular photos, movie posters, fan art – are a major, visual draw that many movie bloggers do not exploit or exploit [...]
Continue reading...1 May 2010
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) throws events and ceremonies all year long, not just The Oscars. For instance, they annually host the Student Academy Awards. A.M.P.A.S. is “a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy’s corporate management and general policies are [...]
Continue reading...6 April 2010
Learning how to write a movie review and strategies involved in proliferating it are your starting point for writing a movie review. Once you are done, the question remains: When is the right time to post the movie review?
Continue reading...28 March 2010
If you are running a movie website, one of the articles you might consider writing may be about the box office performance of a particular film or a box office report itself (Example: Box Office: March 26-28, 2010). If either is the case, you should consider visiting Box Office Mojo first. Box Office Mojo should [...]
Continue reading...13 March 2010
Now that your movie website is online and working properly, the biggest task is now ahead of you: writing consistently. Writing every single day, getting into a cycle or a repetitious rhythm is easy on paper, reading about it. Doing it is another matter. Writing consistently will make or break a movie website. Having a [...]
Continue reading...1 March 2010
Now that you have learned how to write a movie review and have written it, your movie review still needs some polishing, both for SEO and for aesthetics. This need not be a tiresome exercise on your part as these steps can be taken after the movie review has fully been written and edited for [...]
Continue reading...31 January 2010
There are many things that go into Becoming a Film Critic, the highlights of which are below. They are completely arbitrary but they may help you in your film critic endeavors. They are as follows:
Continue reading...6 January 2010
Movie reviews are of paramount importance, content-wise, for a movie website. Movie reviews should be a movie website’s content foundation upon which all other content is built upon and around. If there is one thing that you should do consistently, it is reviewing in-theater movies. Movie reviews should be your Number One Priority for your [...]
Continue reading...20 December 2009
Now that you know to write movie content consistently, where do you find the niche content to fuel the epiphany. Lucky for you, there is a plethora, many of which over-lap. Below you will find movie content sources that will help you in your ever evolving quest to satisfy the needs of your movie website [...]
Continue reading...12 December 2009
Update, update, update. Some of the leading movie websites on the internet: SlashFilm, Aintitcool, JoBlo, et cetera update their website every single day without fail. Do not leave your movie website un-updated, not even for a day. It will happen but you should strive for it not to happen. If you want a consistent viewership [...]
Continue reading...3 December 2009
Running a successful movie website means posting movie trailers. There is no way around and it should not be circumvented even if it could be. Movie trailers are “visual” entertainment for your website visitors and by including them, your entertaining your audience in three ways: textually, audibly, and visually. There is also Fred R. Barnard’s famous [...]
Continue reading...18 October 2009
Creating a Giveaway Contest is a great reward for site visitors and a inducement that promotes more frequent visitation. Before you can give away anything though, first you need the DVD, Blu-ray, or prize to give away. You can either buy them, contact a film public relations firm and ask them to furnish you with copies or [...]
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12 June 2010
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