A website is never finished. It's constantly in "working in progress mode" which can drive you nuts. Sometimes when celebrities say they don't have Facebook or Twitter or they hardly know how to reply to a simple email, I just would like them to feel more greatful for being famous, rich and successful and able to afford a team to do the marketing homework for them. I which I could just sit, lean back and read scripts too.
But I can't... I have to learn other skills particularly how to build a website.
I created my first website three years ago. The second one was created one year after.This week I finished the third one Well, I though I had finished it until today when I realised I did a couple of mistakes.
Mistake 1: I wrote the section "About Me" in the third person which is not necessarily wrong or a mistake, but it creates a certain distance from your audience. They want to feel welcomed and at home when they visit your platform and the first person helps creating a more personal approach.
Mistake 2: Again, it's not a mistake but I feel the"About Me" section should be informational and slightly humorous too and I just took myself too seriously there. Boring!
Mistake 3: I definitely need to add some behind the scenes photos and videos, not only the final results of my acting and modelling work. The behind the scenes stuff show us the real self behind the transformation. The reality. But I do have some reservations here. I think people are too aware of themselves today. They film themselves and share pictures all the time, which means that they learn to manipulate what is suppose to be their real self; people become an act of themselves and only share their best angle and their best take:)
Mistake 4: Maybe I should make a comedy showreel and a drama showreel. "Showreels" are a big science to me but basically I should have all the options on the table.
- a comedy/drama version all together of 3 minutes max
- A comedy version
- A drama version
- Mini, super short 1 min of everything
- Isolated clips. Instead of joining them in a showreel, it might be a good idea to have the scenes isolated. "The Nurse Scene", "The Journalist Scene", "The Mum Scene", "The Angry Scene, "The Lawyer Scene". I like clips. It animates the website and I prefer to see 30 or 40 seconds of a scene than a showreel. I don't know why.
I should fix these mistakes as soon as possible but I'm tired of my website already! Plus.. gathering the material, the behind the scenes material which is probably in 100 different folders from 200 different sources: instagram, Facebook, the galleries on my phone, the folders in my pen, my old pen, my desktop, my old phone. I always promise myself I am going to keep my files organised but I never do that.... And today is Friday. I am not gonna do that today for sure! I'm going to the cinema to see the Dressmaker with Kate Winslet and I'm going to have a nice evening away from my computer.
The website is active anyway but as I said it will be in "working in progress mode" forever. I'll fix everything without driving myself crazy.
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