As Usual

I say this all the time but I really need to post more often. I actually had intended to post last thursday but Mike wants me to have him "edit" my posts. So i sent it to him and he "edited" it two days later. We'll i'll keep having him do it cause (as you know) my spelling and grammer is just aweful. But i'm not going to have him do this one. it's been too long since we I posted last. Here's what i would have posted last thursday:

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I was approached by a potential investor the other day. Money. Money. Money. MONEY!!!. Haha, just kidding. Well, not kidding about being approached. Nothing signed yet so I wont reveal who because I want to protect this person's privacy, but yeah. They were interested in investing a small amount of money (a couple hundred to a possibly a few K or two) to help with festival fees and marketing stuff. Every little bit helps. I'm also excited about this because if it goes through, it's more leverage to find other investors. People are more likely to get on board with something that other people are involved in as well, rather than floating the boat all by them selves. I'll keep everyone posted on what happens with this. For right now I'm working on getting this person a DVD screener so they can be better equipped to make a decision.

One of the things that Mike and I have been talking about (and we discussed this with our potential business partner as well) is that there are three major steps we need to take, even before we decide which way to go in terms of finding a distributor. The three steps are these: setting up a professional website, having a test screening for invites/cast/crew/vip's in a professional venue, and having professional DVD's made (for festival submission and cast and crew copies).  these will be important no matter which way we decide to take the film. It's important that our core team (cast/crew/friends/family) be as excited and passionate about the film as we are. We need to prove to them that this is legit. Not some crappy student film that we're just going to throw away. So I'm in the process of getting quotes for all these things.

The search for student web developers didn't work out so well. The student organization that got back to me said no one would do it for free.

Maybe I should try a different school other than ASU.

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So yeah, that would have been it. I've been doing research on a venue for the screening. It's looking like the cheepest place is going to be $200 for the evening but i hesitate to do that because i want to promote as much professionalism as possible. I'm afraid that doing the test screening in a "$1 theatre" will make the film less credible. But maybe not. it's 750 for the next best thing and then 5000 for an AMC theatre. Retarted. I've got to make a decition on this pretty quick

I've also been doing research on DVD duplication. It looks like it's going to be the cheepest to go through Kenny's company. But i need to decide how many to make and in which manar. it's $2.50 a disc for full packaging (amerey, insert, disc art, shrink wrap, etc.). it's $1.50 for a spindle of DVD's that have art on the disc but that's it. Not sure how i'll do it yet.

I got a copy of the movie to my potential investor. He saw the flaws of the movie right away (which is good because it means he's got a hint of what he's doing) but over all he said he was impressed with the film. He used the word "Polished" specificly. I think that's good. Right? so i'm going to set up a meeting with him sometime in the next few days hopefully to work out the details and see if this is really something he wants to do.

The ASU film fest was this weekend. That was fun. 

I found a web designer that did a website for another local feature. I found this guy through the IFP vendor list. Hopefully this will work out. I'm going to meet with him on Friday to talk about options for the website.

Johnny's been calling me asking me questions about details on the poster so i think he's making progress. I asked him to try and be done in 2 weeks so that we can start making the DVD's soon.

I've got more to write about but i'm tired. I'll post again tomorrow. -GN.