No Worries

The theater is paid for and secured. Nothing to worry about now but logistics. I had the President of the AFA send out an email the other day for volunteers to help with the screening. I haven't gotten a single response yet. I may just have to pull favors. I hope not though. Hopefully someone will volunteer. 

Molly and I spent the day driving around to businesses looking for donations to help with our silent auction to help raise more money for the film. A lot of rejections, but some promising leads mixed in.

I've started inviting everyone I've ever met to the screening. We better pack the house.

The updating every week day at noon thing has been going well. Facebook is giving me details on visits, interactions, video plays, picture views, etc. Some interesting numbers. Things are really erratic, but that's OK. 

Johnny did a new poster and we released it on Friday. Next one should be out this Thursday. Look for it.

I used my newfound web coding skills to format most of the social networking site pages for Madison Hall to match the official site. I think i did a pretty good job myself, thank you very much.

That's about it. 

Javalicious

I've been trying this new method of posting. I'm not sure I like it. I've been emailing blogger from my gmail. But the format is all funny. Maybe if I turn off rich formatting? I don't know. Well, we'll see.

I started watching those training videos. Neat stuff. I've already applied what I've learned to the parking page. Check it out. Every time you refresh the picture that's uploaded is random. :) Neat. www.madisonhallmovie.com 

I've been trying to get in touch with the theater to confirm and pay for the reservation, but the lady I was working with no longer works there. I hope this doesn't become a problem. I watched her put us in the theater's calendar, so I'm not really worried about it. But we'll see. When I tried to call to talk to her the manager on duty just told me to call the owner. I did. No response. I'll try again tomorrow.

I've been spending the last few days calling everyone who ever worked on the film to invite them to the screening. It's nice to get in contact with old friends.

Less is More

This was supposesd to be posted tuesday night. there was some sort of
error. sorry to the readers.
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Not much has happend in 24 hours since I last posted. But, you
know, more posts is better than not more right?

For the website I'm still leaning heavily towards doing it myself,
with the help of Ryan for hosting. So yeah.

I've started calling the cast and crew about the screening. It got to
be 8 p.m. and I figured it was too late so i'll stop. Pick it back up

tomorrow where I left off.

Been doing some more research on prices. Found some good stuff and found

some not so good stuff. We may have hats made. Neat huh? :)

I watched the first 3 tapes from shooting. It was rough. Especially
because so much from day two was so bad and unusable. It felt like

looking at old nude pictures of myself. Awkward.

That's it. I'm trying to post every two days now so the posts should
be way shorter.

Self Help

So I'm leaning towards saying screw it to trying to find a web
developer. I've spoken with a few people and the more i think about it
the more i think that no one can offer me something for what i'm
willing to pay that I couldn't do myself. A friend is getting me some
training videos on different programing languages and web theory
stuff. It'll be good either way because that means I can change things
or fix things if there's a problem later, and whoever designed the
site is gone. But, it's also making me think, why don't i just design
it myself? i don't know. I haven't made a decision, but i'm seriously
leaning towards doing it myself. Maybe I'm thinking to big for what i
want. maybe simpler is better. i don't know. The only thing i do know
for sure is that I don't wan to waste any money on something that I
could just do myself.

We released the second teaser poster today. It looks great. Keep it
coming Johnny!

We announced the test screening on facebook on Saturday. It's going to
be at Chandler Cinema's at 7pm on Saturday June 6th. After party to
follow at Iguana Max. I'm going to start calling cast and crew
tomorrow.

Swine Flu?

I had a great meeting with our primary investor on Tuesday, but then
got really sick all Tuesday night and all of Wednesday. no fun.

I'm in the process of interviewing all these people that have
responded to the craigslist add. blah. some good stuff though. i'm
going to give a screener of the movie to my prof that over saw the
project. I'm dropping it off at 2:30pm today. we'll see what he says.
i think he'll be impressed.

Not much else has happened.

Liar

I lied. I said I'd post tomorrow in my last post and it's been way
longer than that. Sorry.

I've spent the entire day today at home doing "business-y" things. it's
been fairly boring. Most are movie related but some are personal, like
dentist appointments.

I've been doing more research on web developers. It's been pretty
tough. I met with one last friday. I mentioned that in my last post.
Well the meeting went great. We ended up talking for like 2 hours. And
he totally gets what I want to do and knows how to execute it.
However, I just can't afford him. He usually does websites for like
$2500-$7000 and I told him I'd be lucky if I could raise $1000. He said
he'd spend the weekend going over some stuff and see what he could do
for me for $1000. I'd really like to raise the money though, because
I'd love to work with this guy. I also want to work with this guy because doing all this research is stressful. Everyone "business" in the Valley that does this sort of thing is
charging about the same. A few a little less, but it's obvious that
most of those companies that charge less are just charging you for a
template that you could just buy yourself for much cheaper. I made a
Craigslist ad today. About thirty minutes ago actually and I've had like 15
emails already, however, most of them seem like scams. A few aren't but most
feel like it. This is frustrating. The website is just so
important. I feel stressed everyday that there isn't a site up.
Hopefully this will work its' self out soon.

Speaking of money, we may have another investor. I don't know all the
details yet, though, so that's all I'm going to say.

John Murphy signed on to cut a few trailers for the movie. I'm excited
about this because I don't want to do it. Well, I do, but I also don't
want to spend the time doing it.

Jarvis and I spent the other day making little "making of" video's for
MH web content. It was fun. I'll post them periodicly.

I took one of Johnny's finished cartoons and made the first character
portrait teaser poster. It looks great. I'll change the picture on the
blog to it once I release it. I think I'm going to tomorrow. 

Tapia and I went to Chandler Cinema's the other day and tested the
movie out on their equipment in one of their auditoriums. It actually
looked and sounded a lot better than I thought it would. Not that I
thought their equipment would be bad, but just the DVD being
projected. We're like 95% sure we're going to be doing the
screening there. It's cheap and worth it. We also went driving around
looking for a place to do an after party/fundraiser as well. I think
we're going to do it at Iguana Max. We're also thinking about doing a
silent auction. Which could be really cool or really lame.

I'm waiting to hear back from Kenny's company on some more quotes for
less DVD's. I just don't think we can afford to spend $500 on DVDs, unless someone reading wants to send us a check.

Speaking of sending checks, I'm probably going to be meeting with our
initial investor sometime this week to figure the details of this
arrangement out.