We need to boost the presence of Gone Fishing on IMDB (the Internet Movie Database) – this is the first place professionals look when considering a film. I need to ask you two things. First off, can you please go to IMDB and just visit the Gone Fishing page. You can do that here…
Second, can you rate it out of ten. It’s a bit cryptic how this works as I know e have had more than five votes (it says still awaiting five votes). To vote, or ‘rate’ a film, you will need to register, which is free and takes only a minute. After you have registered or if you already have an account, go to the Gone Fishing page here, and at the top, you will see two sets of stars – the ones on the left are the User Ratings (and we are still awaiting enough votes to get a figure in) and the ones on the right are YOUR ratings. Just hover your mouse over the stars and you will see that they go up and down. Click on the rating you want to give. From the screen grab above, you can see that I gave myself 10 out of 10.
In IMDB pro, the big brother to IMDB, we can track the popularity and visits and it can become a vital tool. At the moment we are hovering at a rating of about 35,000, but it will be fascinating to see if these visits and votes can make a big impact or not on this figure – if they do, then we all know for future reference, that it is possible to force a spike in IMDB, if needed for PR.
Many thanks for taking the time to vote, it makes a HUGE difference.
UPDATE - I have no evidence of this but I suspect IMDB somehow rates users, and people who sign up and vote for one film are not considered as highly as those who vote for multiple films. So please spend five minutes voting for a bunch of your favourite feature films, just for the fun. That I hope will get your vote in the running.
Onwards and upwards!
Chris Jones, Film Maker and Author
www.livingspirit.com
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