BUILD YOUR FILM’s WEBSITE for NEXT-TO-NOTHING!
—Published on 21st May, 2020.
A TWO-PART COURSE ON USING WORDPRESS, BOOK ONLINE NOW!
Websites have become an essential tool in a film’s promotional kit. Websites bring visibility and validity to a project – they allow users to meet your cast/ protagonists and crew, to learn about your project’s story, to share press reviews, screening details, funder information and so much more. But websites can cost a fortune to produce.
In this two-part Weeknight Workshop, award-winning filmmaker and television producer, Mariel Brown and web developer Shaun Rambaran will give a wide-ranging lesson in both preparing and running your own website using WordPress.
While designed as a blogging platform, WordPress has organically evolved into a fully capable Content Management System (CMS). Backed with the power of the Open Source community pushing its ongoing development, the software has grown (and continues to grow) ever faster and more user-friendly for persons at all levels of technical experience.
On the 11th and 12th of June, join Mariel and Shaun as they discuss the multiple elements that go into successfully building a website using the wordpress platform, for your film or TV show. Join us, live from the comfort of your own home, using the Zoom conferencing platform.
LOGISTICS
Where: From the comfort of your own home via Zoom conferencing
When: Thursday 11th June and Friday 12th June, 2:00PM -3:30PM
TICKETS are available through our website here
FILMCO Members + Students: $160TTD
Non-members: $200TTD
For Member and Student discounts please email us at admin@filmco.org for discount coupon codes. ALL Students must attach a copy of their student IDs to the email.
Book your space now by using this link!
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Mariel Brown is an award-winning filmmaker and director of the creative and production companies SAVANT and SAVANT Films and a co-founder of the filmmaker organisation, FILMCO. She has built the websites for all her films and her company, SAVANT, using WordPress.
Shaun Rambaran is a web developer proudly based out of Trinidad, West Indies. In a career spanning 2004 to today, he’s found his strengths in supporting the strengths of others. He maintains a philosophy of openness and accessibility—executing website projects which are built with priority on responsiveness across all devices, from mobile to desktop—and usability to persons who may be suffering from vision or mobility challenges of the hands. His past website projects have included (at various times): trinidad+tobago film festival; FILMCO: The Filmmakers Collaborative of Trinidad and Tobago; The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited; Fernandes Business Centre; Abovegroup; The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago and others. In 2010, Shaun turned his hefty PHP and MySQL knowledge toward the WordPress platform, learning to develop and customize WordPress templates and plugins.