I got a few new followers over the last month, so you may not have seen this yet. This is the trailer for my movie. Watch it, reblog it, and like our Facebook page.
Because if this doesn’t work I don’t know what I’m going to do. :D
So as you may remember, my upcoming film has a trailer. It’s on YouTube now (used to be Vimeo only). It’s easier to share and stuff. You should go watch it and show it to your friends because it’s pretty cool.
The next step
So the trailer for my film is out. Now what?
The response for it has been almost entirely positive. I’m certain some people must have hated it, but for the most part people have been saying nice things about it. And not just my close friends, either. Some people I haven’t talked to in ages have reached out to tell me they liked it, which makes me believe them (you’d have to be especially cruel and not very imaginative to go out of your way to make me semi-believe you liked my trailer when you didn’t just to hurt me/make fun of me). And even some strangers, friends of friends who shared the trailer here and there, seemed to like it.
Of course, I realize this is not the kind of film everyone will like. Look at my main influences like Wes Anderson and Woody Allen, their films have actually a very small audience when compared to the average film. And they’re much better than I am, of course! So you do the math. If 10% of the public actually likes those movies, what’s the percentage for mine? 5%? 2%? (I’m pulling these percentages out of my ass) That means that of all the people I manage to reach, maybe 5% will actually enjoy it. Which seems to be more or less what’s happening. So I need to find a way to get to a dramatically larger number of people, and then maybe 5% of that will be a big enough group to actually keep it going.
Much is said about using the Internet and how wonderful it is to be able to connect to your fans directly and all that. And that is wonderful, yes, but for the most part, it only works for people who are already established. One newcomer or another may be able to break through and attract more attraction, but then how is that different from doing the festival circuit? I’d argue it’s not. If anything, it’s a little harder. It’s incredibly difficult to get into a festival, but once your film is in, someone will be seeing it. Then you might take it from there and do wonderful things on the Internet, or someone there might want to distribute the film, I don’t know. Those things happen. But on the Internet, even if you manage to grab people’s attention, it won’t last. There’s always something else. It never stops.
It may seem like I am bitter by reading my last paragraph, but that is not the case at all. I’m grateful to be getting some good feedback, and I’m happy that we got nearly 500 views in three days. That’s way more people than I know, and it makes me think there might be an audience for it out there, somewhere. It’s just a matter of finding it. For now, it looks like the festival thing is the best way to go about that, as painful and slow and that may be.
Where that’ll take us remains to be seen.
In case you missed it, here’s the first trailer for my upcoming independent feature film, The Last Two Years of David Brachman. Please check it out and like our Facebook page, if you haven’t done so yet.
And if you’re feeling extremely generous, please take the extra 30 seconds and share it with your friends. It’d mean a lot! Thank you!
The trailer for my film is finally up! Please go check it out, and PLEASE share it with the people you know and love (or hate, in case you think it’s terrible).
Thank you so much!
Thanks so much guys, hope I will see you there. A quick correction, though: we’re premiering the trailer, not the film itself right now. It’ll be a great event!
Everyone who sees this is invited. The first 30 people will get free beers! For details, visit the Facebook page for this event.
We wish the best for our friend Marc who is premiering his film “The Last Two Years of David Brachman” at one of our Orlando local favorites Milk Bar.
As you may remember we designed and printed the posters for his film. Break a leg!
-H&Q
This is a screencap from my film after the color correction.
It’s looking great and we’re just one ADR session and a couple hours of mixing away from being done. I can’t wait until it’s all done.
If you still haven’t liked the film on Facebook, do so right now. Takes a couple seconds, and it always helps.
This morning, Sean Moore, who composed the score for my film, shared this little gem on his Facebook page. It’s a track he recorded in 2007, which was previously unknown to me. It’s part of an album done entirely in lo-fi, which always interests me. The track is very different from the work he did for David Brachman or most of his other works I know; I found it to be truly beautiful, so I decided to share it here (I also shared it on the movie’s Facebook page).
Writing
After watching the excellent PBS documentary on Woody Allen (seriously, if you haven’t seen it yet, go look for it) I felt inspired to start writing more. Woody puts out a movie a year, which means he has to write them all very quickly. His sister talked about how as soon as he is done with one movie he’s already writing the next one, and how that helps him to keep going instead of getting lost in the previous movie and whether or not it was well received.
I have a fair amount of time on my hands right now. I do have lots of things to do with it, but at the moment it’s pretty much flexible, I make my own schedule. With that in mind I decided that I’ll take at least a couple hours every day to write. I do have lots of ideas lying around, which I usually keep in my head until I absolutely have to put them down on paper. I will try to write at least a couple pages a day, aiming to finish the first draft of my new movie by the end of February. I’m pretty sure I can do it, and I’m curious to see what I’ll end up with. I don’t know when or if it will get made, but at least it will exist. And when I’m done with that, I’m moving on to the next one.
Of course in between I’ll be working on my other projects, some of which also involve writing, which is why I’m giving myself a little more time than I’d need if I was actually writing two pages a day.
I’ll post about my progress (or lack thereof) in the coming weeks.
