What happened to the movie?

[theredweed]

Well as some of you may now be on the edge of your seat ready to laugh, I remind you on two things one I will still be work towards doing the movie and two I cried lots, boo hoo.

Everything was going well, we have permission, we had actors, director, crew, composer, costume design, make-up, animation and compositing crew. Our course leaders were jumping for joy at the size of the project and what it could do for this little establishment (half a university working on one major film is good publicity) Then came the big crash, we asked the university for a little bit of money (£2000) and they laughed, so we lowered it to £1000, and they laughed, we then said £750 and they final said "you don't get it, we will give you no money for the project"

This would not have been so bad, if the finace had not turned round to the dean of the uni and bad mouthed us saying, we are unprofessional (when all of us went there smartly dressed and we have a budget outline for them to read, they said we were rude and asked for £10,000 (assheads) we said we only asked for £2000 and showed the budget, then a fight broke out and the university pulled permission from the project. this means that if we put our efforts into doing the project, our final piece will suffer (it makes me angry).

The by magic, the actors said they were not interested anymore, cos of what problems had happened. humans are smelly poos. I have not been on much cause i have been doing pre-production work for my new final piece, which i am just as excited about.

I hold my hands up to all those that laughed at me and picked fun at the project, you were all right I should not have even attempted something like this and if i ever upset anyone with the project of any views raised i am sorry. It seems that anyone, no matter how unimportant they are can destroy your dreams.

please be kind with the taunting, i am still upset about this. am not saying don't taunt cos you all have a right to, just no calling me smelly

[Hoela]

I think you need a good drink! Try Jenever! You'll forget everything for a moment.

[Thunder Child]

Good old Vlek jenever...

Johan

[theredweed]

Does it come with a free axe to remove those that hurt you?

[Hoela]

There is a kind of Jenever giving a big elephant with an enormous head and tusks. Should do the trick!

[theredweed]

That may work, thanky yous

[mctoddridesagain]

theredweed said:

I hold my hands up to all those that laughed at me and picked fun at the project, you were all right I should not have even attempted something like this and if i ever upset anyone with the project of any views raised i am sorry. It seems that anyone, no matter how unimportant they are can destroy your dreams.

Hey, at least you had a go. It's not your fault a bunch of faceless, unimaginative bureaucrats decided to vent their frustration about their sad, petty lives by taking it out on you.

[RickyB]

Welcome to the world of small film making. It's a nightmare getting funding. I would actually try local companies that seek to profit from students such as beer, cell phone and TV rental people. If you do a product placement and promise them good screen time they might loan you the money, especially if you can do the premier and launch some of their products. It's mutual advertising.

R

[maniacs]

mctoddridesagain said:

theredweed said:

I hold my hands up to all those that laughed at me and picked fun at the project, you were all right I should not have even attempted something like this and if i ever upset anyone with the project of any views raised i am sorry. It seems that anyone, no matter how unimportant they are can destroy your dreams.

Hey, at least you had a go. It's not your fault a bunch of faceless, unimaginative bureaucrats decided to vent their frustration about their sad, petty lives by taking it out on you.

Welcome to the world of paramount pictures...but I didnt say that!!!

[Luperis]

It's a shame your movie didn't work out - it would have been cool.
What uni was this? Should we turn the heat ray at them, then see if they miraculously change their minds?

[theredweed]

Sunderland Uni, I still plan to do it, even without their help, but for my final project I had to change it. Look out for my very short and crude version coming out sometime between now and 2091 (even after my death the project will go on)

[Luperis]

Glad to hear you are still making it. It's a shame it couldn't be a final project, though...

Keep us posted on news, etc.

[Chris Oakley]

Hey listen, don't give up. Chopping peoples heads off to make themselves look taller is what teachers, tutors, schools, colleges and unis are good at.

I did media studies for 2 years and non of the tutors knew what they were on about most of the time, it was just a big hussle to them.

There are many ways to get funding for a serious project like this. If it's for a course project it might not be worth the financial outlay as by the sounds of it the uni will just pull it apart or try to claim credit.

However if you turn it into a proper DVD release via a distributor you could well hit the honey pot. Sponsors and Investors could well be interested if you do some clever product placement and show that you have distributors standing by for the finished project.

One of the problems of a period set film though is product placement. How do you get Coca Cola on board, for example, and put Coca Cola in the film? You can't is the simple answer. In my opinion it's one reason SS set his film in modern day times - he would not have got sponsorship otherwise.

Don't give up on it - there's always a way!

Good Luck

[Mr Death Ray]

Ahh, a fellow director


Do keep us up to date on your movie, other projects, etc.

[theredweed]

My current project is a little more real life.

It is close to the idea of pink floyds 'the wall'

It use live action to show a couple (one of whom is suffering from depression) along their bog standard journey they meeting challenges (such as getting on a bus, a market researcher etc) It uses animation to show how not only the person with depression feelings about these events, but their partner too.

WOTW project is alive in me, but no work has been done to it for a while, though I still have two drawings that are half complete that I wish to share when they are done.