Thinking about opening up a public mindmap to shape, discuss and structure the film’s roadmap. It would most-likely, at least in the beginning, be focused into three areas: 1) the film, 2) outreach, 3) funding. Would this be something any of you would take interest in?
I created two new FToM 11x17 flyers last week in-between longer Final Cut renders - I can’t say that using Photoshop and FCP at the same time was making my laptop very happy, but in any case, I’ve just now been able to add those two new designs to the flyers zip package. Clicking the above photo or this link will save the zip package (10.3 MBs) to your computer.
I’m fairly happy with the new flyer design that I saved as ‘The Road’ - it’s a very simple look but I think it’s appropriate for the film. I have yet to get a chance to print these designs out myself to see how they look on paper - but I will be doing so as soon as possible.
Sorry for the lack of project updates as of the last few days - some of you may have seen on twitter that I took a last-minute flight from LA to KY for a funeral. It’s been a hard week. More on that in an upcoming post…
Source: cl.ly
It’s been such a long, long time since we’ve been able to reach out to new people in ways that haven’t been 99% online, so I wanted to do a video update talking about how exciting this whole experience was!
Source: vimeo.com
Hello. Want a free FToM t-shirt, a handful of stickers and buttons, plus the love and gratitude of two first-time filmmakers? Just click the reblog button :)
Each Wednesday during our Kickstarter campaign, which runs until the middle of October, we are going to randomly select one of the amazing people who helped share the above video and send them an FToM ♥ care-package.
We’ll reblog this video each week with an announcement on who snagged a package and a short update on how the campaign is going. If you happened to not be picked at the end of the week, you can reblog to re-enter. xo.
Source: ftomfilm
Let’s Re-Structure Project Pedal
For a few months now I’ve felt that Project Pedal has become bloated and spread out in a way that doesn’t feed back into the film, or at least enough. Things to exists out on their own and something about the way things have developed feels old. For example, Stockpile doesn’t have enough involvement with the production-blog; the Funding site is out of date and fails to keep up in real-time; the “Help us Build Our Soundtrack” doesn’t get enough love and could, if done better, be much more useful of a tool.
This has only been something I’ve so far *thought* about because I’ve been focusing full-time on the script before our follow-up filming that happened just recently in California. But now these aspects of the site are bugging me more and more, I feel that if we’re going to keep pace with the progress of the film itself, and be efficient in reaching out to people who are supportive of the project, that some of these things need to be addressed.
So, want to help me re-structure the way Pedal branches out online. As an example: Do you think the film’s Funding page should simply point to Kickstarter… or should the music page move away from Disqus and more towards Soundcloud or Streampad…
I’m open to all ideas! What can be improved? What can be condensed? What can be thrown away?
