Hello all,
This post will be a short one, I promise, I'm exhausted and really want to head for bed earlier then last night. Yes, that's what I said, we made tonight an early night simply because both Elizabeth and I were very tired from our day. So, with that out of the way, here's what happened today....
Went to a few panels, networked with a few folks, and I had my first mentor session. If you're not familiar with this, they are 10 minute one on one meetings where you can sit down with...in this case a distributor...tomorrow they will have mentor sessions with producers, writers, and more distributors. Anyway, it's one of the reason I thought it would be good to attend this year. I was right, it was a good idea. The distributor I sat down with was great. We talked about the comedy horror genre in terms of how it sells in the UK (by the way, he is a UK distributor) It sounded like we've made a good choice on our genre. He was very positive about how comedy horror is received there and therefore sales there. We also talked about bankable actors for the UK, he suggested we find a seasoned brit actor or perhap one of many up and coming younger brits. He also thought that a notable European actor would help the sale for more then just the UK but for Europe. We've thought for a while that "Clombies" would do pretty well in the foreign market, and after today I feel like we are on the right track with that thinking. I have to say that this has been the best part of the festival for me thus far. It was a very positive experience and when I walked away I felt even more excited, if that's possible, about our film. I also walked away with his contact info, so if I have anymore questions I now have someone more in the know to ask. Very cool. Tomorrow I have another distributor mentor session, so we'll see how that one goes.
To round out our day, we finished up downtown and headed over to the Alamo S Lamar to catch the doc, Greenlit. It was pretty good. It's about a film that decided to be a green production. We've thought about trying to be a green production, or at least take some measures to be more green. I think some of our ideas can be pulled off just by watching what they did on their film. If you get a chance and your interested in seeing what it might take to go green, check it out. Here's their website with the trailer on it. Greenlit website.
Okay, I think it's time to wrap up, so, until later. Happy time change everyone.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
SXSW 1st day
Hey all,
Just a quick late night entry...Elizabeth and I decided to go to SXSW this year. It's funny, we've both lived here for more than 10 years and I think the last time I went to SXSW film was like 5 to 8 years ago and the last time Elizabeth went there wasn't a film festival yet, just music. So, you can imagine that we're both pretty shell shocked by how large the festival has grown.
We didn't make it down to any panels today, mostly because there really wasn't much going on. But we did have two films and a party we wanted to attend. The first film was Erasing David, awesome awesome Doc. We both had a chance to chat with David the filmmaker, who was the subject of the film. The film deals with databases of all our information. If you have ever wondered how much information was out there about you, you should definely watch this film. It's kind scary really. David told Elizabeth that the film was available for VOD on Amazon. So, I check amazon and here it is, check it out if you like. Erasing David VOD link. Also, David said that they are showing at the Boston International Film Festival, so anyone from Boston go check it out. It's worth seeing. Now, the line for this film was long, the wait wasn't to bad...and we did obviously get in because how else would I be telling you these stories. But overall the experience of going to this film was pretty good.
After the film, we headed over to the Kick Ass party...the line to get in was around the corner but it didn't take long to get in and once in we went straight upstairs, it was not as crowd as downstairs and the bar had really no one waiting, nice. We stayed, had a drink and ran into a few friends. Then we headed off to our next film Tucker and Dale VS. Evil, it was showing over at the Alamo Ritz. We were there an hour early and you would not believe the line...it went all the way down the block, around the building and down the street to the ally. We waited a while but then decided we could wait and see it later in the week.
So, overall for the first night of the fest, we had fun, met a few people, saw a really good film and stood in line. This was not really surprising, because as I said SXSW is a big festival and lines are were you meet people, at least that's my experience. I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of the weekend into the week pans out.
Probably the most surprising thing was what we found at the Driskel Bar, we stopped by and man oh man was it stupid crazy in there. Tons and tons of people, you could hardly move. We didn't stay - surprise surprise, that kind of crowd makes me crazy. So, note to self, Driskel not on my list of places to go to this week.
Tomorrow we're off to our first set of the panels. Looking forward to doing that, I missed Austin Film Festival last year, so this will fill that void in me. Also one of the biggest reason for signing up was it's providing us a great opportunity to talk about our the project, "Clombies". You knew this would come up, since it's all I like to talk about these days. But it's really exciting to see what kind of questions people ask and just to get face to face feedback is awesome.
If you're at SXSW keep an eye out for us, would love to meet anyone that read this blog.
Anyway, I probably should sign off, I mean I did say this was going to be short...not so much, huh?
Just a quick late night entry...Elizabeth and I decided to go to SXSW this year. It's funny, we've both lived here for more than 10 years and I think the last time I went to SXSW film was like 5 to 8 years ago and the last time Elizabeth went there wasn't a film festival yet, just music. So, you can imagine that we're both pretty shell shocked by how large the festival has grown.
We didn't make it down to any panels today, mostly because there really wasn't much going on. But we did have two films and a party we wanted to attend. The first film was Erasing David, awesome awesome Doc. We both had a chance to chat with David the filmmaker, who was the subject of the film. The film deals with databases of all our information. If you have ever wondered how much information was out there about you, you should definely watch this film. It's kind scary really. David told Elizabeth that the film was available for VOD on Amazon. So, I check amazon and here it is, check it out if you like. Erasing David VOD link. Also, David said that they are showing at the Boston International Film Festival, so anyone from Boston go check it out. It's worth seeing. Now, the line for this film was long, the wait wasn't to bad...and we did obviously get in because how else would I be telling you these stories. But overall the experience of going to this film was pretty good.
After the film, we headed over to the Kick Ass party...the line to get in was around the corner but it didn't take long to get in and once in we went straight upstairs, it was not as crowd as downstairs and the bar had really no one waiting, nice. We stayed, had a drink and ran into a few friends. Then we headed off to our next film Tucker and Dale VS. Evil, it was showing over at the Alamo Ritz. We were there an hour early and you would not believe the line...it went all the way down the block, around the building and down the street to the ally. We waited a while but then decided we could wait and see it later in the week.
So, overall for the first night of the fest, we had fun, met a few people, saw a really good film and stood in line. This was not really surprising, because as I said SXSW is a big festival and lines are were you meet people, at least that's my experience. I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of the weekend into the week pans out.
Probably the most surprising thing was what we found at the Driskel Bar, we stopped by and man oh man was it stupid crazy in there. Tons and tons of people, you could hardly move. We didn't stay - surprise surprise, that kind of crowd makes me crazy. So, note to self, Driskel not on my list of places to go to this week.
Tomorrow we're off to our first set of the panels. Looking forward to doing that, I missed Austin Film Festival last year, so this will fill that void in me. Also one of the biggest reason for signing up was it's providing us a great opportunity to talk about our the project, "Clombies". You knew this would come up, since it's all I like to talk about these days. But it's really exciting to see what kind of questions people ask and just to get face to face feedback is awesome.
If you're at SXSW keep an eye out for us, would love to meet anyone that read this blog.
Anyway, I probably should sign off, I mean I did say this was going to be short...not so much, huh?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Clombies' first poster art
Hey Gang,
Thanks so much to those of you who gave us some input on the synopsis. I think we've worked out a pretty good one and soon we'll announce the official launch of the new site then you can judge for yourselves on the brand new synopsis.
So, while you wait I thought it would be cool to show off our first of many poster art that will grace our website. That's right, first of many, you will need to keep your eyes peeled for new content as always but also for new imagines, poster art, and design elements. This will keep things interesting and as I said in the earlier post we're starting out simple but in time the site will have alot of different things to offer. So, without farther ado:
I think it's awesome. All the website design is thanks to a wonderful company in Midland, Texas called Via Media http://www.viamedia.cc/, run by Jon Lindgren. If you need someone who knows what they are doing and does a great job, check them out. He gets what we're doing because he himself is a filmmaker, you should check him out.
Would love to hear what you guys think, leave a comment below with your thoughts.
Thanks so much to those of you who gave us some input on the synopsis. I think we've worked out a pretty good one and soon we'll announce the official launch of the new site then you can judge for yourselves on the brand new synopsis.
So, while you wait I thought it would be cool to show off our first of many poster art that will grace our website. That's right, first of many, you will need to keep your eyes peeled for new content as always but also for new imagines, poster art, and design elements. This will keep things interesting and as I said in the earlier post we're starting out simple but in time the site will have alot of different things to offer. So, without farther ado:
First poster art for Clombies' website
I think it's awesome. All the website design is thanks to a wonderful company in Midland, Texas called Via Media http://www.viamedia.cc/, run by Jon Lindgren. If you need someone who knows what they are doing and does a great job, check them out. He gets what we're doing because he himself is a filmmaker, you should check him out.
Would love to hear what you guys think, leave a comment below with your thoughts.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
To give nothing away or give it all away, that is the quesiton...
Okay, the subject line might be a bit confusing...I promise I'm not giving all of my possessions away. What I'm trying to do, is to figure out just how much information to put in our synopsis. Okay, wait, maybe I should start at the beginning rather then to jump right in to the issue. Here's what's going on...
Elizabeth and I have started the ball rolling on the creation of the Clombies' website design and launch. It's going to be pretty simple and clean at first, considering the film hasn't been made yet and there isn't much to put up. Really the only thing we want up right now is a synopsis and an investor's area. The site will grow as we get farther into soft-prep and pre-pro, but until then we're going to keep it simple. The designs for the poster art have been awesome, we've seen several different directions for the art to go and they are all really good, the great thing about Clombies is it has a few different angles that you can choice to promote from. But that also creates problems because it means you have several different fanbases and you have to decide if you want to focus on one or two of the fanbases or as they say, throw the baby out with the water, and try to hit every fanbase. So, the problem is, we don't want to give away every twist right here at the beginning but we also don't want to miss any opportunity to draw as many fans to the film...so the dilemma is what is too little and what is too much?
Any of you have an opinion on this? Things that you might have noticed? Or is there maybe a standard for website synopsis'? Probably not, like most things in film you just have to figure out what's right for your project and go with that. Anyway, E and I plan on working on the synopsis today...Among other things I need to get done. What do you think if I test out the synopsis E and I come up with with you guys...are you willing to help a girl out?
Elizabeth and I have started the ball rolling on the creation of the Clombies' website design and launch. It's going to be pretty simple and clean at first, considering the film hasn't been made yet and there isn't much to put up. Really the only thing we want up right now is a synopsis and an investor's area. The site will grow as we get farther into soft-prep and pre-pro, but until then we're going to keep it simple. The designs for the poster art have been awesome, we've seen several different directions for the art to go and they are all really good, the great thing about Clombies is it has a few different angles that you can choice to promote from. But that also creates problems because it means you have several different fanbases and you have to decide if you want to focus on one or two of the fanbases or as they say, throw the baby out with the water, and try to hit every fanbase. So, the problem is, we don't want to give away every twist right here at the beginning but we also don't want to miss any opportunity to draw as many fans to the film...so the dilemma is what is too little and what is too much?
Any of you have an opinion on this? Things that you might have noticed? Or is there maybe a standard for website synopsis'? Probably not, like most things in film you just have to figure out what's right for your project and go with that. Anyway, E and I plan on working on the synopsis today...Among other things I need to get done. What do you think if I test out the synopsis E and I come up with with you guys...are you willing to help a girl out?
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