Let's Start Advertising

Hey there! Beginning this week my group and I started the advertising process for our short film. We started working on both the postcard and website. We split up the work, with Lola being the primary editor/creator of the postcard and me being the primary creator/editor of the website. Jack will just help us in anything we need along the process of creating our respective projects. With that being said, I have less to say about the creation of the postcard and it's progress. I can however talk about my experience in creating the website to advertise our short film.

The first thing I had to do was find a way to create the website. I ended up using Wix.com, which was super simple and easy to use. I followed the steps outlined for me to create the perfect website for our short film. I know that I want to include a link to our short film, some information about our media group, some of the reviews our film has gotten, and links to our film's social media. With this in mind I chose the best template and got started. For the first day of working on the website I am primarily focusing on structure, and not specific content or pictures. First, I made sure to have an area of the website to introduce and display our short film. Then, I made a section to display awards and reviews given to our short film. Finally, I made a "contact" section at the bottom of the website to link our social media sites. I haven't opened the social medias yet, that is part of my plan for the next step of making the website. Also on my plan for the next step is adding photos and text content. I will be able to add the text content before the pictures because we need to film before I can get clips from the short film. This means we also have to edit so it will be a little bit before I can finish the website. 

This is all the work I got done on the website so far, but I plan to continue throughout the week. 



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