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Jul11
Ergodic Cinema / A Garage Collaborative Experiment / Stage 5
STAGE 5: Status of Acts 1 through 5, Launch of IndieGoGo Campaign
Key points for Stage 5 assembled by Odilonvert
It is almost the end of July, and we are almost at the end of our IndieGoGo Campaign to fund our project. Much as we had expected, crowdfunding is challenging! We have made three promo videos in the space of two weeks,and are in the middle of trying to get the best out of the social media world to bring more attention to our project. Wish us luck as we enter the last week or so of our campaign that we will reach goal, we need it!
In other news, we recruited a wonderful designer who goes by the Mubi name of TheFlyOnTheWall. He designed our logo, and we can’t wait to ask him to help us with other items, such as the DVD covers, t-shirts and other items we will be offering donors.
We also recruited three new filmmakers! They are: D♯, who will be taking over Barbosa XIII’s spot in Act 4, and we have finally grabbed filmmakers for the other two spots in Act 5 which we originally meant to fill alongside PolarisDiB’s segment. These new filmmakers for Act 5 are Ricky Richtoffen, and Max Slobodin. All three new filmmakers are in the scriptwriting stages of their segments, to be submitted by Thursday, July 28th and voted on by the group on Friday, July 29th. After that, ALL of our segments will be considered in production, and PolarisDiB and I will start considering final submission deadlines for all films. We are moving forward!
In other news, we recruited a wonderful designer who goes by the Mubi name of TheFlyOnTheWall. He designed our logo, and we can’t wait to ask him to help us with other items, such as the DVD covers, t-shirts and other items we will be offering donors.
We also recruited three new filmmakers! They are: D♯, who will be taking over Barbosa XIII’s spot in Act 4, and we have finally grabbed filmmakers for the other two spots in Act 5 which we originally meant to fill alongside PolarisDiB’s segment. These new filmmakers for Act 5 are Ricky Richtoffen, and Max Slobodin. All three new filmmakers are in the scriptwriting stages of their segments, to be submitted by Thursday, July 28th and voted on by the group on Friday, July 29th. After that, ALL of our segments will be considered in production, and PolarisDiB and I will start considering final submission deadlines for all films. We are moving forward!
Some impressions thus far, in my role as both producer and filmmaker on this project:
Wow, I think we have to congratulate ourselves on a team that has survived the generally non-committal quality of internet “relationships” for almost seven months now. We’ve manage to live through comings and goings (a producer and several filmmakers), voted and approved many pitches and scripts in the process, and managed to even video chat over various time zones. In particular I recall a tinychat session in which we managed to snag Act 1 filmmaker Dandara all the way in Brazil. We talked about the project, but we also all managed to laugh (tinychat has not quite perfected their sound yet) and enjoy each others’ company. Meetings such as these affirmed for us how cool this project is and how eager we are to have fun putting it all together. And how much we want to make it come together, through hell and high water, as the saying goes.
Our biggest challenge thus far has been the IndieGoGo campaign. When it came to explaining our concept to the world, we found we weren’t as confident as we thought. What audience are we appealing to? Will they understand what we are doing? How best to communicate it? Suddenly, it became apparent that the group was in different minds as to how to do this – after we had already launched the campaign. Underneath, in my opinion, was the concern that since this was an unusual project, it might be difficult to get support. A month long campaign to better let it sink into people’s heads? Can we ask for as much as we are asking, considering that it is unusual (and therefore could be possibly viewed with suspicion)? With little more than a week left, it will be interesting to see what develops… and what does not. And how that will impact our project, in particular for those filmmakers who cannot go forward and make their film without a particular dollar amount. To be tackled after July 31st right here in production notes for the Ergodic Cinema Project, stay tuned…
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List of collaborators to date:
Director & Financial Officer: PolarisDiB | Producer: Odilonvert | Assistant Producer: PolarisDiB | First Administrative Assistant: Kate | Designer: TheFlyOnTheWall |
Members:
Dandara (Act 1) | Ryan Estabrooks (Act 2) | Odilonvert (Act 2) | Santropez (Act 2) | Tremolo (Act 3) | Roboko (Act 3) | Dylan Ibrahim (Act 3) | Bobby Kenneth LePire | JP. Schmidt (Act 4) | D♯ (Act 4) | PolarisDiB (Act 5) | Ricky Richtoffen (Act 5) | Max Slobodin (Act 5) |
Status Table and links to our page on Mubi Garage (regularly updated on the profile of Odilonvert):
Our Ergodic Cinema Project on Mubi Garage
Hosting, Funding and Film Festival Participation Updates:
Hosting: The Ergodic Cinema Project will be hosted on Mubi Garage, though an external website to showcase the completed project is currently under development.
Funding: We are almost at the end of our IndieGoGo campaign (end date is July 31st, 2011). Although limited funding for segments may become available at some time in the future, contributors are strongly encouraged to work under the assumption that budgets will be restricted to their personal nances.
Please contact our Director PolarisDiB for details.
Film Festivals: We do plan on running the festival circuit, showing the body of our work in its entirety. Although the submission of individual segments to festivals is not restricted, it is highly encouraged that contributors credit Ergodic Cinema Project and its affiliation to Mubi Garage.
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