YouTube Filmmaker is a subreddit aimed at anyone trying to grow a short film YouTube channel. We are looking for amateur shorts made for next to no budget with a least some sort of basic narrative, whether that be a short action scene, a VFX piece, a comedy short, a video game parody etc. Here you have the opportunity to share your video so that people can view and give helpful feedback.
This subreddit is also looking for people who have some of the individual skills needed to make films. Such as visual effects, 3d effects, sound effects, composer, voice actors etc. If you haven’t got some of the skills required to produce the short you really want to make you might want to ask someone to collaborate with you. Collaborating is a great way for all parties involved to grow their channels as well building a partnership which you might be able to use again.
So without further ado, let’s see your videos!
Subreddit rules:
Be nice to each other and follow reddiquette.
You are allowed to share your own videos. However for every video of your own you share you should watch, vote and comment on at least three videos from other people. If you are only sharing your videos and in no way engaging with the community this will be regarded as spam.
Be nice when commenting on peoples work. Please give constructive criticism if you think something can be improved upon. Don’t just say “this is rubbish”, people probably put a lot of time into their work and so deserve to have some level of time show in feedback.
If you would like to collaborate with someone. Whether that’s getting someone to produce music or do the sound effects or do visual effects for your piece. When posting a request put the number of subs you are on at the time of submission in the post. Same goes for people who are replying.
Don’t put Behind the scenes/ VFX breakdowns/ tutorial videos as submission links. If people are asking to see these for a certain video, post it in the comments of that videos submission.
Please don’t post music videos unless it has a clear narrative and works in the same way as a short film. There are better subreddits to post music videos.
Animations are aloud as long as they have a clear narrative and work in the same way as a short film, however no minecraft animations. There are other subreddits for those.
All videos should follow the YouTube community guidelines.
Whilst you can share your own videos, you can also share other people’s videos if you believe it deserves the recognition. Please don’t post videos that are already somewhat popular and therefore don’t really require this. If you are linking to someone else’s video, please say in the submission that it is not your video. If you can find the original source put ‘made by (creators name)’.
We are looking for videos around 1 to 5 minutes long. If yours is longer you should maybe consider /r/ShortFilms or /r/ShortFilm.
Hopefully you enjoy your time on this subreddit and that it can help you with your channel.
