Some ideas for after the release of the film...
My pal Ricky Grove who is the voice of LORD WOR in Heart String Marionette and an overall awesome d00d was in San Jose yesterday so we had dinner and discussed some ideas that could make the release of the film that much tighteR...
Here's some stuff we came up with...
Live interactive director, actor, crew commentary
So lets say you downloaded and watched the movie and now you want to ask the people who made it some questions or whatever... so how about for a month or so every Friday night HSM will be streamed on Ustream or Livestream and I, along some members of the cast and crew will be doing a live commentary or Q&A as the film streams on screen... so it would be a live commentary track ^ ^
I tested this out with Ustream producer last night and I could get the movie on screen and my mic audio but not the film audio...I'll have to mess with it more but seems doable... will have to figure out how to get multiple peoples audio on as well through skype er something? Any ideas how to do that? We want the film on screen with its audio sorta low... then 2 or more live people with their audio on top of it...
Heart String Marionette toys
So if the release of the film makes enough money I'll do a run of action figures for each character and sell those on the site
Blu-Ray
If there is enough demand for a Blu-Ray version... I'll work on creating a full featured Blu-ray to be released later in the year... it seems like as of right now this is the best way to get the best quality version of the film in your hands... I don't have a blu-ray player myself and have never watched one but a few of you have emailed me about a Blu-ray release so there is a little demand...----------------------
So there are a lot of "if's" in there... I think being a nobody like me... you've got to start really small... tiny in fact... as the only overhead for the release of the film will be the $30/month for DPD... doing a run of high quality DVD's in digipak's like we did for We are the Strange costs anywhere from $2000 to $6000... Blu-Ray will cost even more... so I'm going to start really small and see what happens... first off the goal will be to make the $30 a month back haha... if that happens it'll be a small success... then hopefully there will be a string of small successes leading to bigger ones... but I'm not going to make any assumptions...
So yeh.... up until June 15th I'll be working to make the release as awesome as I can as a nobody ^_^
Then after the release I can finally start serious work on the next film... its about GAWD DAMN TIME!
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