Kickstarting this project

 So last week I started the Kickstarter campaign to try and source funding to do a re production of our class project for festivals. It's not that I feel our project is not good. I do, I feel it came out pretty good for what we had to work with, however to compete, we need more. So I started the campaign with the goal set pretty low,  $5000 as we don't need a huge amount to pull this off. We would need to acquire help with the filming process. The sound problems that we had were a nightmare for me, and I come from a sound background! Having a designated sound man would be beneficial and necessary. Then there was the acting..... We used child actors. They had various levels of experience and interest in the project or acting for that matter. Tyler is re working the script to make it more age appropriate to a r rating and we will be adjusting the characters age range to 17 or so from 12 to 18. The oldest role, Brandon would be 19. This would free us to do a bit more with the dialog, language as well as way more violent and gore, which it totally lacked in our student film. We felt collectively that we had to hold back on a lot because of the ages of the actors and that was also the case with the dialog. I allowed my so Alexander to say a few choice words to spice up his role a bit and add to his narcissistic demeanor of his character.

 Now back to our crowd funding campaign, it is going very slowly. I created a Facebook page for the film and tried to get the buzz going and we have had minimal response. Hopefully in the next 28 days we will receive at least a few pledges. Here are the links to the Kickstarter page as well as the Facebook page.

Kickstarter Campaign

Facebook page

I can finally come up for air......

 This summer's project has tried to kill me. Seriously, if it wasn't for the computer problem that I had to deal with a few weeks back it was the microphone issues that plagued a few of my days of shooting, of course the metering on the camera was off so I assumed I was all good. Bad choice not having a dedicated sound guy handle the mic's and ensure that there was actually sound being recorded! So needless to say, quite a few scenes had to have voice over work. Some worked well, a couple not so much. The film is edited down, the audio is as good as it gets for right now. In the next weeks I will get a few of the actors back in to do voice overs for a couple scenes that I feel need to be cleaner and will edit down a trailer as well for the Second Life screening. Aside from the issues, I had a blast working on this. Would I change things? Of course I would! I think this was a great learning experience for myself and also Tyler which is great because that's what we are here for afterall right?

 I must say though, the one thing that I learned the most from this project was hop imperative it is to triple check your sound constantly during filming. I made a real mistake by assuming and it ended up costing me days of headaches. On top of that was also sometimes the actors strayed slightly from the script so when it came time to do VO work, reading from the script didn't work. We had to read lips in some parts to get the exact dialog recorded in post production! Yes, it was a nightmare!

 I did export in compressor at a small size to help with uploading. If it looks too small or really crappy, I will re-render on Monday and re-upload it.

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