Last Friday, I asked something of you guys. I saw that my short film, Devil’s Advocate, was ranked in the top 20% of both the Horror and Overall categories, and I said, “Hey, that’s not bad. I wonder if we could do better.”
Guys, you did better than better. You did outstanding.
On Friday afternoon, we were at #42 in horror, #23 in Female Filmmakers, #245 overall, and I think #33 in science fiction. I tweeted, I Facebooked, I instagrammed. I pushed and pushed and kept everyone updated on the progress as our little film continued to rise in the rankings. It was astounding. My network is not huge. I have 200 WP followers. I have about 120 FB friends and 450 Twitter followers (99.9% of whom never talk to me). There was no way I was going to have a significant response.
But just when I thought we couldn’t go any farther, someone would RT me or reach out to their personal network. Another handful of people jumped on board. I have my real life friends to thank, along with the cast and crew of the film, but I have you guys to thank as well. Many of you liked my WP post, retweeted my calls to action, shared my links.
I kept saying that I wanted to be in the Top 16 for at least one category, because that would put us on the “Most Voted” front pages. Securing a spot there would hopefully give us enough exposure to boost us outside of our own personal networks.
As of now, we are #100 overall, and on the front pages for each Horror, Female Filmmakers, and Sci-Fi. Our current rankings for those categories are, respectively, #13, #10, and #10. We are on three front pages and in the top 100 for the overall competition. JEEPERS, GUYS. We also passed 300 views on Youtube, which Austin tells me is a bit of a “magic number” when it comes to getting found in the search results or related videos. I do notice us picking up a few dozen views every few hours without any promotion at all now.
The voting doesn’t end until July 4th, so we have a couple of weeks to maintain that lead. Before, I thought becoming #1 in anything was impossible. Now, heck, it seems like it’s within reach! So next week, tell ya kids, tell ya wife, because we’re pushing it all over again until we hit #1. And in the meantime, if you can still continue to vote and tell your friends to vote. Kudos!
Reblogged this on Magnetars and Opinions and commented:
Here is a post from a woman that has been working so hard at her creative endeavors that I want to help her out. Please read her post, watch her short film and VOTE. She really deserves to do extremely well in this competition. Thanks!
Reblogged on my journal and tweeted. I’m glad you’re getting support for this.
Thank you so much! I do appreciate it.