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As Film Festivals open up to visitors, getting your business cards ready to hand to those you network with is vital. It is also important to make use of your social media accounts. Here are our top tips:
- Create a separate Instagram account for trailers, behind the scenes, showreels, photography, snippets of scripts, or pose a question you will answer in one of your films/scripts
- Create a LinkedIn profile, add the names of the films you have been involved in as a student and the role you undertook. This will help people find you if they are looking for someone with skills in a role.
- Design a business card. Your name and your career should be on the front, this can be generic (Filmmaker / Screenwriter) or specific (Cinematographer, Production Design)
- There are a number of free QR code generators online, so you can generate a QR code for your business card that links directly to your Instagram Account.
- Post regularly. Aim to post something every week on Instagram, if you took lots of photos at a shoot, space these out across a month or 2. For LinkedIn, either respond to articles or repost articles with your comments, you should aim to post on LinkedIn every 2 weeks to every month.
- Build your profile now, don’t wait until you graduate to be noticed.
- People on Instagram follow the hashtags so make the most of them on your posts. Use the appropriate keywords as hashtags such as #screenwriter, #scripts, #filmmaker, #womeninfilm, #BTS, #onset and so on.
If you would like to speak to someone about building your social media presence, please email studentexperience@centralfilmschool.com to make an appointment.
