Twitter‘s new Vine app has buzz in the microblogging platform since being introduced in January. Now FilmDistrict is using the looping video tool to promote their March 22 actioner Olympus Has Fallen. Oscilloscope led the way last month by cheekily announcing they were releasing their indie It’s A Disaster in 6-second chunks on the app: “It was so clear to us that six-second loops of video
, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will be the future of film distribution”, quipped a studio press release. FilmDistrict’s approach is more straightforward. Fans are encouraged to upload ’6-Second Video Review’ of the Gerard Butler-starrer to Vine which are then culled online at Olympus6SecReviews.com. With the White House action-thriller hitting theaters this week, the distributor’s been folding nontraditional marketing methods into its campaign, including a sponsorship of Break Media’s new Armed Response action webseries. Social media’s impact on moviegoing was the talk of 2012′s CinemaCon, and that was before users were tinkering with and sharing 6-second videos on their iPhones.

Okay, call me an old fogie, but that six-second looping video crap was the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen. It’s for idiots. And I love Twitter.
“It was so clear to us that six-second loops of video, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will be the future of film distribution”
Soooooo people won’t go to the movie theaters anymore? They’ll watch a six second clip and call it a narrative? I think you’re confusing film distribution and viral seeding in your press release there tex. It’s really sad that studio marketers are more focused on making press releases about their careers than actually marketing and opening the films their supposed to be solely focused on. Then again, its not like the studios give them ANY incentive to actually care how well a film does outside of job security or the yearly bonus if you’re at the top of the marketing food chain.
He was being facetious…
Seems like a clumsy app as well. It wont play on my iPad. Twitter and Instagram work together much better.
A word of caution. Unless I misunderstood Vine’s privacy policy, once you post, your video may be used by third parties for advertising, etc., without compensation to you. Read the privacy policy CAREFULLY.
Read the fine print, for sure. But I’m not certain someone who bothers to use this app is going to care about third parties taking the uploaded content for some unforeseen reason. You’re already uploading your content to be used by some giant corporation.
Two things.
One there are only 2 people, that’s right 2 people following it. Impressive.
And secondly, the studio may want to consider that most people don’t care what a total random stranger thinks of a movie.
Its great for the ADHD Generation! We love it!
If I wanted to send someone a six second video, why wouldn’t I just use an animated .gif or .png?
Quite too early to predict, but with vine and twitter working together it is not very far that it will also become viral. Vine is a nice addition for people to interact plus the benefits it could give to small business.