We had our first full team meeting earlier this week and everybody came away ready to jump on this project full force. We're going to tweak our Indiegogo welcome video slightly but are still looking to launch our fundraising campaign on July 7, assuming all goes well. It's been really cool to see a group of people with very different backgrounds and experiences come together and rally behind this project. We've got an awesome team and I'm excited to show you what we come up with.
I'm getting excited. The homepage is close. The Indiegogo rollout is imminent. Our post-production team is complete. It's like a documentary Voltron assembling. I will admit, though, that the more real this all feels, the more anxious I get. When this was a pet project with loads of footage sitting on a harddrive I would mess with when I had free time, it didn't feel completely real that our story would become anything more than a simple short. Now I'm hiring people. We're buying gear and licensing music. We have a scheduled workflow! These are big, big steps.
I think the most terrifying part of all of this is that once the project officially rolls out this month, there's no turning back. It must be finished. Festivals or bust. Distribution at all costs. I dig this team we've put together, though. Every person on the squad wants to tell our story and wants to not just make a video about Maya and Noah's infertility journey, the want to are a film. And I know we're going to do exactly that. Stay tuned.
Last night I had a great crowd funding strategy session with a buddy. Kickstarter is the bigger, better known platform but Indie GoGo seems to have a lot of positives (fewer fees, no all-or-nothing model, more focused audience).
No matter which platform we go with, it's pretty amazing that we will have this opportunity to make the quality film we want thanks to friends, family, and complete strangers. It will be the difference between making a feature length doc - something I've always wanted to do - and having to settle for a short that tells a good story but doesn't look like a professional piece of work. I feel very strongly that in order to honor not just our story, but the subject itself, we need to make this project as high quality as possible.
That's the latest for now. Whichever way we go, our fundraiser will be up and running in a month or so. Stay tuned.
- Noah
This was a big weekend for the project. We began the roll out for our Kickstarter campaign, which will launch in the next couple weeks. Look out for a great video and fun incentives. We're doing everything we can to get this film finished and looking pro. Also, I wanted to see if I could update the website from my phone. Hello, technology!