{"id":751,"date":"2011-09-03T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lofiscifi.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2011-09-03T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T16:29:38","slug":"50000-people-cant-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/promotion\/50000-people-cant-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 People Can&#8217;t Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jonahsposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-752\" title=\"jonahsposter\" src=\"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jonahsposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, since the last email we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4pdedSOmnSI\">a ton of people check out the trailer<\/a>, thanks to a post on BoingBoing and pretty active sharing on Facebook\/Twitter\/G+. So that&#8217;s exciting.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mocking up a movie poster to shop around the film to distributors and broadcast markets.<\/strong> For this, a blurb by a famous person would help a lot: know any famous people who&#8217;d like to check out an advance copy of a smart indie sci-fi movie? Any leads appreciated!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeping on with our online presence<\/strong> with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/humanspam2040\">@humanspam2040<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/110185810043137163437\/posts\">+Oscar Beaumont<\/a>, and figuring out offline protuberances (like the one above that Jonah designed &#8212; anyone wanna go postering?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuing our festival submissions.<\/strong> Beyond the ones we&#8217;ve already submitted to (TIFF [rejected], Fantastic Fest, Toronto After Dark) we have a short list based on recommendations from fest-savvy folk:\u00a0Slamdance,\u00a0Tribeca,\u00a0San Francisco Intl Film fest,\u00a0SXSW,\u00a0Cinequest Film Festival,\u00a0Seattle International Film Fest,\u00a0Maryland Film Festival,\u00a0Rooftop Films,\u00a0Sci-Fi-London,\u00a0Fantasia,\u00a0Sarasota Film Festival,\u00a0Raindance,\u00a0Vancouver Film Fest,\u00a0Miami Film Festival. If you know of any great fests we&#8217;re missing let us know.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In October we are going to be putting the first 15 minutes or so online<\/strong> as a part of the Celtx Seeds thing we won. We&#8217;re considering continuing releasing 5-7 minute segments on a weekly or bi-weekly basis after that until 2\/3rds of the movie is online, as there&#8217;s a logical break at the point before they all meet up and go on in-world adventures. At the end of each of these segments would be a push to a Kickstarter page where people could support our promotional campaign, and if they paid more than $15\/20 they could get an advance digital download copy of the complete movie as a thank-you. However, what we&#8217;re concerned about is that festivals will disqualify us for putting so much of our movie online (even though the 1\/3 finale is not) or that distributors would consider our Kickstarter campaign selling the movie (even though we&#8217;re giving it to our supporters rather than selling it). If you have an informed opinion, or know someone who does, we&#8217;d love to hear it! We&#8217;re trying to leverage the new media possibilities without entirely burning our bridges with the old media, so we realize it&#8217;s a tricky line to walk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>But what about the Toronto screening?<\/strong> I know that many of you are dying to see the movie &#8212; we&#8217;re dying to show you the movie! However, what the response to the trailer shows me is that there is a sizable audience for this movie and I&#8217;m interested in exploring the various distro and screening partner options before we do the totally independent thing. That&#8217;s going to take time, but my best estimate is that it&#8217;ll be at least another six or seven months before we do a Toronto release of it. Thanks for your patience!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, since the last email we&#8217;ve had a ton of people check out the trailer, thanks to a post on BoingBoing and pretty active sharing on Facebook\/Twitter\/G+. So that&#8217;s exciting. What&#8217;s next? Mocking up a movie &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/promotion\/50000-people-cant-be-wrong\/\">More<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}