Post Production * Week 112 from mike ambs on Vimeo I sound a bit under the weather in this update – but despite my sore throat I’ve been hard at work editing and writing for the film. Amanda and I have been working over video-chat to work out the rough parts of the script. On top of that, we recently finished our 64 Days Production Journal and I just so happened to get it in the mail today after I started recording this video. I’m really excited at how they turned out! We’ll be posting more on that later – for now, it’s time for me to get back to editing.
FToM on Kickstarter – We Did It! from mike ambs on Vimeo. November 11th marked a few excited things: a 28th birthday, the 100th week of post production, and the day FToM on Kickstarter reached 100% of it’s funding goal! Since then pledges have slowly kept coming in – and we want to make the best of this momentum and the remaining days (campaign doesn’t end until Thanksgiving). We’d love to see if we can hit an even higher goal – Kickstarter is such a powerful and unique outreach tool and we want to raise the bar as high as possible. We’ve designed FToM t shirts that we’re really happy with (Alternative Apparel 100 percent organic cotton unisex) and want to give as many as we possibly can to the amazing people who helped us reach this goal. If we can hit our new goal, we’ll be able to include a t shirt for every single person who pledged above $20. Also – with 10 days left – I have a bit of a birthday wish: to get Livestrong / Lance Armstrong to pledge a $1 to the film. If you click this link – it will pop open twitter, with a pre-written tweet all ready to send. I know we can do this!
Up past my bed-time getting some writing done – wanted to check in to update people on how writing has been going, and also to say thank you for all the amazing support we’ve been seeing through Kickstarter.
Post Production – Week 88 from mike ambs on Vimeo. I was up late last night working – and decided a video update was long, long overdue. I’ve been finished up on a huge step of post-production for almost two weeks now, and I’ve been waiting to make that announcement on video. Also – and more importantly, I need people’s input on what the next step for me should be.
Sorry this took so long to upload – I recorded this friday afternoon, and wasn’t able to edit it while in Kentucky like I’d hoped. Post Production – Week 78 from mike ambs on Vimeo. But here it is – just an update on how I’ve been combing through the footage for the trip and making sense of it. It’s a basic approach, but the baby-step process seems to be helping.
Post Production – Week 73 from mike ambs on Vimeo. This is a very big announcement… and it was a decision that was more than difficult for me to make. I don’t know what else to say… except that I’m prepared to work harder than I’ve ever worked to make it all come together as planned.
Post Production – Week 70 from mike ambs on Vimeo. Larry shared a pretty personal and emotional letter recently – and I asked if he would mind my sharing it on the site. I realize that many people might find his words in the letter a bit strange – but that was half the point of me reading it… I’m curious how these feelings come across to other people. For me, the letter makes perfect sense, all the emotions seems right in line with what I went through… with what I’m still going through – but I know that won’t be the case for everyone.
post production – week 68 from mike ambs ☂ on Vimeo. We’re down to the last 24 hours of the Babelgum contest – we really have no idea where we stand at the moment, since the relaunch of their site it’s been impossible to even do a rough count of our position. So it will be as much of a surprise to us as anyone when the release their shortlist on the 3rd. So keep your fingers crossed for us – if you can cast one last vote and tell everyone you think might take a moment to vote. Remember, now there’s no signing up for an account or downloading software. Voting could literally take as little as 5 seconds and two clicks. Okay, enough about the contest for now. I’ve been trying to get back into writing and editing mode, and haven’t been able to re-acclimate as fast as I’d like after spending a few weeks neck deep in html, css, javascript and all kinds of other initials that are mostly over my head.
Post Production – Week 64 from mike ambs ☂ on Vimeo. A quick update on what I’ve been keeping myself extremely busy with the last week – keep checking back at FToM – it won’t be long before we launch the new site. I’ve worked very hard on it, so I hope everyone will find it much more useful and engaging. Also don’t forget there’s still 28 days left of voting for 64 Days in the Babelgum film fest! Winning would give us all the money needed for post-production! Greatly speeding up our schedule.
Post Production – Week 59 from mike ambs on Vimeo. It’s been another busy week – I just finished getting the Netflix Competition and the Rooftop Films DVDs all sealed and ready to go for tomorrow! And I was about to export a new teaser, then sit down and get a few more thoughts down on paper for the film. I have to say the Netflix Competition is a long shot – more accurately; it’s a really, really, really crazy long shot – but it feels good to enter and at least give it a shot. You never know unless you try. But I’m pretty excited and anxious about the Rooftop Film Fest. I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’ve wanted to attend for the last several years. And being accepted would be a great excuse to buy a ticket to NY!
