A Website for the Film, Not Just the Actor
A project can now have a site of its own: separate from your personal actor website, with its own address, its own design, and its own cast and crew listing.
Why a project needs its own site
Because the audience is different and so is the ask. Your personal site exists to get you cast. A project site exists to get a film seen, funded, programmed or reviewed, and the people arriving want a synopsis, a trailer, a cast list and a way to contact production.
Trying to serve both from one site produces a page that does neither. And when the film has four other people who also want to point at something, a page inside one actor's website is the wrong object for all of them.
What goes on one
- Title, logline and synopsis. In that order and at those lengths.
- The trailer, or a teaser, or a single still if there is nothing else yet.
- Cast and key crew, with links to their own sites.
- Stills, laid out as a gallery.
- Festival selections and screening dates as they happen.
- Press, using the same structure as press pages.
- A contact route that reaches production rather than any one performer.
The logline is the part people rush
One sentence, present tense, protagonist and problem. A programmer reading eleven hundred submissions decides in that sentence whether to open the trailer. Everything else on the site is downstream of it.
Timing
Earlier than feels comfortable. A page with a title, a logline and a single production still is worth having during the shoot, because that is when the crew are posting and there is somewhere to point. Waiting until the film is finished means launching a site at the moment attention is hardest to get.
How it relates to your own site
Loosely, which is the point. Your credits can link to the project site, and the project site can link back to each performer. Nobody's site is subordinate to anybody else's, which matters on a collaborative production.
If what you want is simply a good page about your own projects inside your existing site, that is My Films.
Related: connecting your own domain, since a project usually wants its own.
Create a free actor website and add a project from it.
