Step by Step Tutorial for Posting Movies - Free Online Movies Forum

DrWho · 08-15-2009

Step by Step Tutorial for Posting Movies

I am going to attempt to take you step by step thru the movie posting process
and keep it as simple as possible, by showing you how I post a movie.

1. Pick the proper forum for your post

( I am doing a movie, titled “Lava Storm (2008)” so I need to select 2008 Movies)

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2. Select New Thread

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3. Select Prefix that best describes your post (if you are not sure, go to: www.imdb.com

and type in the name of your movie. Look for Genre: If there are several to choose

from, I usually select the first one listed.

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4. Okay we now have our Prefix, it is time to type in the movie Title, after-which

you should always check to see if this movie has already been posted to avoid double posts.

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Okay this movie has not been previously posted so we will continue.

5. (a) Now we can move on down to Tags & Thread description (optional) You can

never list too many tags, but be sure to separate them by putting a comma

after each tag. What are tags? Tags are words, small phrases, names of

well known actors & actresses. Basically anything that describes the movie

you are posting. I depend a lot on IMDB for my tags. I use all tags listed in

Genre, plot keywords, and maybe the names of any famous people in the film.

I know this can be time consuming at times but in the end you will have a

movie that should be very easy to find.

MOST IMPORTANT: Be sure to put the TITLE of the movie in your

tags so that when anyone is looking for that movie they can type the title

in the search box and it will show up. I put the title in twice … once with

the year, and once without.

(b) The optional box marked Thread Description is not

a mandatory field. However As this is a new field what is put in here is

up to you. I put in the Title – then after that I sometimes use Genre, a

quote from the movie, actor/actress names, a line from the plot, a tagline…..

Whatever you think would make you want to watch the movie.

Descriptive candy if you will.

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6. The body of our post. This is, for the most part, purely

up to the person doing the posting. There are however a few ingredients

that are necessary and should be included here. The order in which you

place them is up to you. These ingredients are:

I know I skimped on the body but as I said, the order in which you include

the above list is up to you. The artistic flare whatever makes the post

your own is your choice (within good taste no smut please)

7. Selecting a Post Icon: Please select only an icon that is NOT

being used by an active member as these are an easy way of telling whose

post it is. If you are not sure …. Please ask! Post Icons are not mandatory

it is just an option. But they are sort of personal to some of us that use

them. I know I get stupid when I see someone using the post icon I use

to define my posts.

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I will do a separate tutorial on finding the best poster for your posts and how to attach them.

I hope this tutorial has been of some help.

Happy posting!

-DrWho

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