Day #2, Tech day, productive tasks

Day #2. Still feeling it.  But still having no clue how to start a mass movement to get this film made.
Flying blind, I decided first to tackle the tech thing. . . So I spent pretty much the last 10 hours, tweaking, linking, oiling all the various social networks together.   So now you can find all the sites on the top bar of the blog.  My Youtube account said hello to Twitter and Facebook, via Indiegogo, and Ustream, all of which got linked to my own company site, Altered Ego Entertainment 
Unsurprisingly, I received zero comments regarding the announcement posted yesterday. . . Maybe once the trailer is up and the account goes live on Indiegogo, the project will begin to gain traction.  The struggle feels extremely steep.  I have no followers per say on Twitter. As for my Facebook friends, most of them would not know who I am.  To say the least, it is kind of strange to do all this on my own, without knowing at all who is going to come on board.

After investigating the various crowdsourcing sites, I decided to settle for Indiegogo.  I found Kickstarter's policy restrictive.  Indiegogo may have a higher % commission, but I like the fact they allow you to have a message or even fight for a cause. . .  I do not subscribe to the artist philosophy. Statement such "I'm an artist" makes me raise my eyebrows.  Since when are artists free floating agents with nothing to say? But maybe I don't understand . . . what they mean.

Two days ago, I made a dummy poster for the film. A quick single picture of a woman, behind foggy glass.  The green hue matches perfectly with the theme of Radium.

Tomorrow, I'll be looking into the legal stuff. . .  

Day #1, "This Mortal Coil" announcement

Today is an important date.  The first day that I have decided to raise more than $ 1 million through crowdfunding to shoot my next film, This Mortal Coil.  How am I going to do it and with whose help?  At the moment I do not have a single clue.

What's against me?  Well for a start, the amount I'm looking at is staggering over the top, given that a miracle crowdfunding campaign reaches around $150,000.  So am I stretching myself way beyond realistic expectations?  Probably.  But what do I have to fear?  Ridicule, public humiliation?  There are no challenges that begin without this possibility.  Whoever sticks his or her neck out runs the risk to have it chopped off.

To my credit, I have my own antecedents on my sides.  Against all expectations, I have achieved impossible tasks in the past, and when I see who I have become from the places where I started, trust me, a part of me believes in miracles.  Concrete example?  Well, for a start, I was a school dropout.  Never attended high school in my life.  I put myself through college and still graduated summa cum laude.  Today, I write in English, and I'm a published writer.  When I was twenty, I couldn't speak a word of English.  Okay, so I'm not here to blow my own trumpet, but given this perspective, this fundraising challenge does not feel that outrageous in terms of impossibility.  If I fail . . ., it will be because people have failed to hear me, or I failed rather to reach them.  Therefore I will just be another anonymous tree crashing in the forest of multitude, away from anyone's attention.  I will be pretty much standing where I am standing today with this project, which is nowhere and very close to the ground, where my feet rest.  Harm would be minimal.

One thing is certain however.  Having all this self-drive and confidence to fuel myself are not enough. A personal achievement versus a social one is a different kind animal.  Another way of saying, there is no way on earth, I could achieve my goal without your help.

Let me ponder overnight how I am going to get you involved in participating in this project.