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.

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!

Managed to write a few more pages today. If I manage to keep this pace up I really should have this screenplay done in a couple months. Then it’s just getting financing to get it made, which, as I have said before IS THE EASIEST PART (see two or three posts ago).

Just kidding, I will probably have to go through one or two or a million new drafts and THEN the money will roll right in.

Anyway, I think I may be writing too much so I’m sure I’ll have to cut a lot of stuff down, but I’m really trying not to do that before I get the first draft down. In the past I have edited as I wrote, but I want to see what happens if I just put absolutely everything that comes to mind on the page and go from there.

I also managed to play some Skyward Sword. I’m progressing slowly but surely through the game. I think I’m about 22 hours into it, which I’m sure is nothing considering I’ve had it from day one. I just can’t play more than one hour a day (two every now and then) without feeling guilty.

EDIT: Yes, I’m still looking for a title for this screenplay. I have a working title right now but I kind of hate it.