Filmmakers Need their Own Hashtag and Community - Introducing #STEEMFILM

What Steem needs is a specific hashtag and community for filmmakers who are active on the Steem platforms.

Why? The filmmaking community here on Steem is still in its infancy. There are a few filmmakers and vloggers here but there isn't any hashtag or group that is specific for filmmakers here on the Steem platforms to help us categorize, isolate, encourage and rally for.

There are communities that help foster new content and active creators such as @curie, @sandbox, @minnowsupport and @steemstem but they're either too generic and / or not geared towards filmmakers. There are a few film / media centric accounts like @film-trail and @namiks, but they aren't for filmmakers. They're for film lovers, and that's great!

But I would like to see a community of filmmakers evolve here on Steem in a similar way to YouTube. On YouTube, we're YouTubers and it has become a massive institution for new and experienced filmmakers alike with their YouTube Studios, collaoration hubs and free equipment. It's one of the best parts about the YouTube filmmaker experience. YouTube WANTS you to make films and helps you do that. You definitely feel like there's a community there, despite the platform's censorship and monetization problems.

We need to find a way of doing that in a decentralized manner and I think #steemfilm can help galvanize and promote the filmmaking community.

CURRENT HASHTAGS

There are five primary hashtags that people are using to promote their work, #film, #filmmaking, #filmmaker, #movies and #video.

• Film - It could work but it's too generic and the posts are usually about mainstream cinema. That is to say, cinema that isn't tied to the Steem platforms in any way.

• Movies - This hashtag has the same problem as film and is simultaneously flooded by movie reviews.

• Filmmaking and filmmaker are excellent hashtags, but they don't capture the idea of a community that is specific to Steemit.

• Video - That's just a crappy tag. It describes nothing except a moving image. It doesn't tell us anything about the product or the person producing said product.

USING #STEEMFILM LETS US KNOW:

1. The related post is specific enough to be about filmmaking AND ALSO from someone who is MAKING those films on Steem platforms. At the very least, it can let us know that the filmmaker is an active participant in the community even if they keep their videos on YouTube or Vimeo.

2. The poster considers themselves part of the filmmaking community and wants to help it grow

USING #STEEMFILM CAN HELP US:

1. Create a more visible tag with its specificity by supplanting the five aforementioned ones with a single hashtag. We know that it is about making films on Steem, so we don't need to use up our five allotted hashtags describing that the post is about filmmaking. You can still use them but if we get enough people using that hashtags we can use other ones to be more specific.

2. Rally together and help build an actual community of filmmakers instead of flapping in the wind or adhocking it with the other communities.

3. Share each others work and make it more visible by helping the rest of the Steem community find us.

4. Help us find worthy projects of supporting. When we stop using the other hashtags, it makes room for our custom ones. So we can now do things like having specific hashtags for specific films. I'm using #changelingfilm for my short film, and now I have room for three other hashtags that might help those who need to find the project because they'll be interest specific instead of generically about film or filmmaking.

WHAT TO DO NEXT?

1. Copy and use the artwork in your posts to promote the community. I've used public domain images and modified it myself, so feel free to snag it!

2. Get in touch with me in the comments to let me know your thoughts and if there is any way to take this to the next level.

Thanks for having a read. Let's make this work. Let's grow an actual community of filmmakers and video artists for the film and art lovers out there.

Phil

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