Moonlightaholics

The question has been posed on Facebook: "Can you explain how the Kickstarter money factors in? What does to money go toward at this stage of the process?"

Their answer:

Searching For Sonny
The money raised from Kickstarter will help with post production cost such as purchasing music, sound mixing, color correction etc. These elements are vital to any film and they enhance the movie watching experience.

I know this can be a bit confusing so think of a film like a homemade birthday cake. Pre-production is where we gather the ingredients (cast, crew, locations, art dept., props, wardrobe etc...). Principle photography (what we just finished) is where we take all those ingredients, mix them together and voila! We have... cake batter (raw footage). Now this may taste delicious (especially if it's chocolate) but we still have to bake it. That's where the post-production process comes in. Editing the film together is basically "baking" the film. Everything comes together and now you have something that looks like a cake....er... I mean film. But we're still not finished... A birthday cake requires finishing touches... icing, sprinkles, big wax numbers, you get the idea. Without these you have a very bland cake that no one wants to eat. Same applies to a film. Sound mixing, color correction and music rights are the icing on the cake. Now we have a film that we're proud to show off to the world and people will be eager to get a piece of.

Hope this helps and please feel free to ask all the questions you want.


I think this is a fabulous analogy. Even though some of us would be pretty darn happy with cake batter and a big spoon...

That was a great analogy, Lilly. Thanks for posting that on here.

I've been trying to think where else I can spread the word on this movie. I seriously think I've run out of places I can go to.

Great analogy.
Maybe they will let us lick the batter off the spoon after they finished, meaning they show behind-the-scenes stuff and deleted stuff and such...

Mmmm, chocolate cake batter on a spoon... with Jason, BriTANick, Michael, and Masi as frosting and sprinkles...

allegrita wrote:Mmmm, chocolate cake batter on a spoon... with Jason, BriTANick, Michael, and Masi as frosting and sprinkles...

Well if THAT didn't whet your appetite, this certainly should...

From yesterday on Facebook:

Searching For Sonny COMING SOON TO A WALL NEAR YOU: More photos from the last week of shooting, behind the scene interviews with the cast and maybe, just maybe, some funny bloopers... If you're lucky! Keep spreading the word cuz this is about to get good!

Interviews? Bloopers??? Yes, please!!!

Bloopers! Bloopers! Pleeaassee!!!!!!!

From Facebook, here's an easy way everyone can help:

Searching For Sonny We want our film seen by as many people as possible and will do everything in our power to make that happen. What you can do: Go to http://www.searchingforsonny.com and fill out the section "Want this film in your town?" Encourage your friends and family to do the same!

Also from Facebook:

Searching For Sonny Remember, you can like us on IMDB, too! Click the "Like" button at top right corner, it would be a big help to us!

And here's a handy link :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456939/

Red

YIKES!!

From Facebook:

Red Productions We just had lighting strike the studio! Everyone and everything is alright, but we're all going out to buy lotto tickets.
36 minutes ago


You've gotta love their attitude, but holy cr@p, that's scary!

FB again:

Searching For Sonny Wow you guys have doubled our number of IMDB fans today! Thanks so much!



Red

It's saw awesome to see the guys still getting so much support.

I've been so busy with the Donate Life Stuff lately, and keeping up with all the news of that, I haven't had time to be as active over on the Facebook page as what I would have liked. Now that things have settled a bit more, I should hopefully be able to get back in the swing of things, if someone can PLEASE think of some places for me to spread the word Seriously, I've run out of ideas.

Oh, but one miniscule bit of good news, sort of. Ok, so it's not like a huge deal or anything, but for all my sporfling about posting about the film to the ML Slash community, it did at least work, at least in some small way. I've recognised a few familiar names on the S4S Facebook page recently, plus I've seen a couple of community members spreading the word through other comms, and sites as well. So I suppose in the end, it was worth it.

These guys are so dedicated...

Searching For Sonny Andrew Disney here - I'm about 65% through my first pass of the edit with Sam (our editor) and... I think we have an AWESOME movie. Should have my first cut finished sometime next week!
about an hour ago

Is it just me, or are these guys really fast?

Lucky

They're certainly not wasting any time. The first cut is far from a finished product, but it's really exciting!


So, how about a little Sunday afternoon pick-me-up?? A little something from Day 16...