Adding your brickfilms to Brick à Brack’s library is a great way to show your work and participate in the community. This video will show you how to upload your own films and use the sites’ tools to make your brickfilm stand out!
For this tutorial, you will need to have a video uploaded to YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, or Bricks in Motion.
1. Add a brickfilm
First, go to the Brickfilms page on Brick à Brack. Here, you can see every video uploaded to the site, search by genre, or even look up a specific film. To upload your film, click the blue “Add a Brickfilm” button. Select the type of brickfilm you are submitting and enter your video’s link. Check the box if you are fine with Brick à Brack showing your video for exhibitions or promotions, then click “Submit My Brickfilm.”
Brick à Brack automatically imports video data from the original upload, but you get a chance to edit everything before it goes live. You can change the title, select the main language, and add a synopsis of the video. Click on the genres your film fits best – you can choose up to four. Then click the radio button next to the main genre – this is important as it is the main genre that will appear when your film is searched.
2. Add more information
You’re finished! Well, mostly. The best way to make your video stand out is by adding more information. People who see your video will want to see more of your content if you describe your video more, so take the time to fill in as much info as you can! Let’s start with the blue “Information Tab.” You probably already filled a lot of this in, but now you have the chance to edit the title, change the privacy settings, and language.
If you don’t like the current thumbnail, you can select one of your own! This is a great tool as YouTube often does not let smaller channels use thumbnails. You can upload thumbnails on Brick à Brack for whatever video you like!
You can edit the synopsis and genres or note that the brickfilm has been cancelled for whatever reason. Include some director’s notes so people can see what you were thinking about when you made your film! Finally, you can add technical details – such as the camera you filmed with, the software you edited with, and so forth.
| If you make big changes to your video, click the big green “Save my brickfilm” button. If it’s just a tiny change, click the smaller “save without notify” button. This helps us keep the notifications feed clean! |
3. The TeamSome people credit their friends for helping in the synopsis section, but Brick à Brack has a much better way of doing that. Click on the green “Team” button at the top of the page to add credits. Here, you can click “Add a crew member” and add a new section for credits. Pick the name of your friend from the list, or uncheck this box and type their name if they are not a site member. Click on the status menu to specify how your friend helped and click “Allow editing” if you are fine with your friend editing the information of this brickfilm. In most cases, you don’t need to click this button.
4. WatchThe orange “Watch” tab allows you to change where your video link is. You can even add a comment to the link under “Last Word.”
5. TrailerIf your video has a trailer, check the box next to the purple “Trailer” button and add your video links in the box. Add one line per source and click save.
6. Making OfDescribe the process behind your film with the red “Making Of” button. Here, you can write notes, add pictures, and embed videos – just like a forum post! This is a great place for behind-the-scenes footage. Click save when you are done here.
7. Production BoxesPre-Production is just like “Making Of,” but focuses on all the things you did before you began work on your film – like scripting, set design, and possibly recording. Production focuses on all the things that happened while you were filming. Post-Production focuses on what happened after you finished filming, like editing. These are great tools to walk your viewers through your thought process.
8. ConclusionThat’s all it takes! You can choose how much information to add to your film and you can edit your film at any time by clicking the edit icon. After you finish adding your film, check out some of the other films available on Brick à Brack!
Thank you for watching, and best of luck as you continue brickfilming!
