Teaser 017

posted Aug 4th, 2009 View Comments

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Teaser 017

Teaser 017 from mike ambs on Vimeo. I’ve mainly been using instrumental music for these teasers – but to be honest, I’ve always wanted to use music more in line with this teaser. If I can help it, at least half of the soundtrack will be music you’re used to hearing in these teasers, and the other half will be more… old, lonely, love-related. There’s a good reason for that – but one I’ll save for the film. Until then – here’s a shot of Larry pushing slowly back against the winds in ND… alone on the road with nothing left to do but think about everything his life has been, and everything he wants it to be. Help us burn up the lat of our 9,735 HD embeds by posting this teaser on your own site. Just copy & paste the code below, or you can tweet this post to all your followers. Teaser 017 from mike ambs ☂ on Vimeo.

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Scatter-Brained

posted Jun 11th, 2009 View Comments

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Scatter Brained

Last night I twittered that I finished off the first of two 1 TB drives full of FToM’s footage – I went through and condensed many of the edits and took out clips I knew weren’t working now that I had seen it next to other clips. So the timeline is still just barely pushing 2 hrs and 15 min. But with another 1 TB of footage to comb through, and 400-some Mp4 clips (from Larry, and the crew), I’ll be busy for a few more weeks before I have a solid 5 hours of footage that count as the most usable of the film’s media. Then, the plan is, to play that edit on a loop while I make notes, write more of the script and narration, draw out the last of the storyboards for scenes we still need to film with Larry in Northern California… picking out music, et cetera. I have a long, long road ahead of me. Finishing one of the drives was a great feeling, but it was a small step. We only have 9 days to go on our Kickstarter campaign – another $300 and we’ll have reached our goal! Just as a note; none of the money pledged to this point goes through if our goal isn’t reached. This $1,000 will be set aside for the post-production and pick-up shots I mentioned above. In my last post, I mentioned that I had been working hard on updated our Stockpile project. If you haven’t seen the new site yet, please take a moment to check it out and help spread the word. When I was on the phone with Winona, from Adventure Cycling, she suggested I create a promo video for our outreach campaign. I thought it was a great idea, so here it is, our new 60 second Stockpile promo: Help us burn through the more than 16,600 HD embed’able plays we have left on Vimeo! It’s easy – just copy the code above and paste it anywhere you see fit. Thanks for helping to spread the word! That’s all the updates I have in me tonight. I’m leaving town for the weekend but I’m hoping to record a vlog update while I’m working in FCP in the afternoon.

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teaser 008 – and 2,000 views later

posted Dec 13th, 2008 View Comments

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teaser 008 and 2,000 views later

Teaser 008 from mike ambs on Vimeo. I wish I had more shots like this… sadly the crane was snapped in half during the trip. But that’s another story for another time. One that I’m sure will find it’s way into an upcoming part of 64 Days. I wanted to a) post our new teaser clip, since it’s been two weeks (in case any of you are wondering when to expect new teasers, we post one every two weeks on sat or sun), and b) thank everyone for the help in using up the HD embeds we purchased (that I mentioned a few post ago here). The thumbnail above was snapped on the 6th, so as I’m writing this we’ve actually pushed that number to 7,221 HD embed views left. Which means, since posting about helping us “burn through another 500 plays”, we’ve actually used up 2,278 views! Again, that number is just counting HD embeds on blogs or sites *outside* of Vimeo. I can’t say it enough; thanks so much to everyone who took a moment to write a post and embed our 64 Days shorts, it means a lot to us. I thought since we still have several thousands HD embeds left – we might as well put them to good use. I really like the newest teaser, I wish I could just keep floating up, and up as Larry steadily climbs over the rolling hills. There’s a lot of things about this shot that bring me back to the road in a very powerful, nostalgic way. I updated the widget box above with the cut & paste code for teaser 008. So, if you like it too, feel free to pass it along.

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