Creating my own website has been a complicated experience. There were times I didn’t know what I was doing at all and got very frustrated, but luckily there were many resources and tools available to help me get through it all. I enjoyed picking out a color scheme that I was able to incorporate into my own brand that feels very me but also fits to my production's aesthetics. Making a logo was a tricky thing because after figuring out my color scheme and style, I was not exactly sure how I wanted it to look to fit all of my ideas, likes, and branding. Luckily, I have had experience using the website canva.com for some assignments and personal uses and making a logo and other image designs became easier than I thought. After mostly finalizing the direction the website was going in look-wise, the actual content became my next challenge.
Building up this website made me realize that the people who have to do this for a living to market films and other productions do not have easy jobs. If one thing is out of place, viewers can suddenly lose interest in the product or think of a production as unprofessional. Marketing is what draws people to films and presentation is everything. You can’t have your genres, colors, or designs clashing between different pages or individual page setups, and everything has to keep people’s attention long enough that they are hooked into viewing what you create. It all seems so easy when you’re an outsider, but stepping into the creator's shoes makes me see that it takes a lot of hard work (and maybe a little bit of lacking sleep….okay a lot lacking sleep) to market, produce, and create a website that will allow people to view and enjoy my own films and productions.
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