| Saturday, February 13, 2010 |
Inspired by my fellow filmmakers |
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Okay, so in the last week or so my team and I have been pretty relentlessly looking for financing for Clombies. It's frustrating when you put that much time and effort in and get nothing back. One lady said me to the other day, that the networking you do today and continue to do, you'll begin to reap it's benefits in three month. Now that's great but man, that's an incredibly long time for someone, who like myself likes things to move fast. But don't dispare I'm also not one to quit and neither is my team, so don't worry, this film will be made. It must be made, it's an awesome little story. I would tell you more about it here but I want to wait until we get the website up. It'll be much more fun I think for you guys to be able to look around and find all you can about the film for yourselves.
And on that note, I would like to talk about a film from the UK that is getting some buzz on twitter and the web. Their website is pretty busy so don't let that put you off, but if you're a zombie fan I highly recommend going over and checking out Indywood Project. I'll post at the end of this blog their website address. I just ran across them the other day on twitter and they are highly motivavte to raise funds through crowd funding. I think that's awesome. It's something that we've thought about doing and are actually in the process of brainstorming and figuring out exactly how to approach it. These guys have a nice choice of packages to donate under. The site has given me lot to think about. What do you guys think? Would you donate to them if their film was you sort of film? What would make you donate? What are the kinds of things that interest you that would keep you coming back? These are the questions I really want to get answers to...because if you are in our fan base then I want to make sure you feel apart of the process we're going through. So, please leave a comment or email me through http://www.my-productions.com/. I'd like to know what you guys think of crowd funding and about this whole internet community of film producing.
Another filmmaker that I think you might really get a kick out of is Jane Morgan. I found her and her husband's fund raising adventure over on kickstarter.com. You should check out Jane's blog. I will include her blog link as well as the kickstarter funding page. I hope her the greatest success, she's definitly got the passion, you can feel it through their video promo.
Okay, I guess that's kinda what's on my mind today. Still working, still searching, and still moving towards the start line. I hope you all have an awesome weekend and please leave you're thoughts and questions.
Indywood Projects:
http://www.indywoodproject.com/
Jane Morgan:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/morgan/november-1st-a-short-film-help-the-morgans-mak
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| Monday, February 01, 2010 |
Short films are available online. |
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We are very excited to announce that as of today three of our short films, BSW, 2 White Kids, and Once a Storm are being sold on Amazon's CreateSpace in a DVD compiliation. It took sometime to get it up but it's finally there and available. So, for all those folks who have been asking you can now get your very own copy right here.
We're testing out the pricing right now so you might notice it may change a few times throughout the next few months. But for today it's at the very low price of $12.95.
On top of getting our shorts out there for the public to see and purchase there was another reason to do this. In our distribution strategy for Clombies we're looking at every revenue stream that's available to Independent filmmakers. And selling DVDs from our website and through a fullfilment house is one of those streams. So, in a way we're doing a test run. We'll keep you posted on how it's going and what kind of results we get.
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| Saturday, December 05, 2009 |
When you need help ask for it... |
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...but don't just blindly hand things over, you have to take the time and learn as much as you can. Finding people who can help you along the way is very important. We've been working the last several monthes on our budget with the help of this great lady, Megan. She's awesome and she's taught me alot about budgetting and thinking in budgetting terms.
But the process has been long and arduous, we started out doing a budget with all the bells and wistles - well maybe not all of the bells but in the low budget world we definitely had alot. It was great...but as time has moved forward and I really put myself to task on our distribution strategy, it came to lite what's going on in the marketplace now. For Indie's it's pretty tough. The budget we had was wonderful but the harsh reality was recoupment was very unlikely at that level. We had to cut it down.
So, Megan did it, came back with a much lower budget and now I've sat with it many a night working, rearranging, rethinking and I believe we are there. Of course, I've probably missed something, but I can dream it's all good, right? Now, it's time for me to hand it back to Megan and the other producers and see what they think of my handy work. I'll let you know how I did...but just for luck, could you cross your fingers for me.
So, what I'm trying to say is if you are desparate to make your film but you don't know anything about producing or business, I highly recommend before raising any money, go get yourself educated, find people who have done it before, ask questions, ask for help, learn about what's happening in the world of independent film and where your film can find a home. Because this isn't about making just one movie, I hope. I hope that like me, you're just getting started and with that you've got many many more movies in you...if that's the case make this one count. Don't you think?
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Blog Archives
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - Inspired by my fellow filmmakers
Monday, February 01, 2010 - Short films are available online.
Saturday, December 05, 2009 - When you need help ask for it...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Long time, how about an update.
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - First Location Scout trip
Saturday, March 14, 2009 - Great script read through
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - Camera Test for Clombies
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