Ding

It's done.


Now all I have to do is:
Design the final poster/box art
Finish building the website
Get the imdb page finalized
Get an HDCAM and Digibeta copy made for fests
Finish cutting the second trailer
Cut the making of...put more segments online
Compile the other special features for the dvd (commentary, deleted scenes, etc.)
Create a press kit
Get buttons made
Get t-shirts online
Get limited vinyls of the soundtrack made
Submit to the next 9 festivals on my list...wait to here from them
Get dvds/blu-rays produced
Organize the Shreveport premiere/screenings
Restructure Moviesauce, LLC
Rebuild the Moviesauce Website
Get updated releases from the talent

Finish writing my next project...then make it...so on and so forth.

Just...a....little....bit....more

I think I'm done now. With the movie. Watched my "I think I'm done cut" a few hours ago, made a full page list of tweaks and tweaked them. I have a single sound effect to do for the moviesauce logo at the beginning...but that doesn't really count as "the movie."

And there's one track I'm waiting on from Ben which is just a refined version of the title song. So once that's done, I just got to pop it in and we'll be ready for business.


In the meantime, we're waiting to hear from festivals...first notifications come in December and I'll basically be getting a steady stream every month through May for various fests....Then there's a few month break (where I may be screening) and then I'll be hearing from the fall festivals.

In total I'm looking at submitting to 13 fests. We ought to be able to get into several of them. But they're basically all spread out over the entire 2011 calendar...so with any luck we'll be screening it in various cities all year next year...with a Shreveport premiere happening as soon as we have our first festival screening and the world premiere status is gone.

My marketing efforts are also about to increase...with festivals come press kits and promo materials. which means money on printing cool stuff like postcards and one-sheets (with hopefully a new/official design coming) and buttons and t-shirts and maybe even vinyl soundtracks as I've been talking to Ben about doing.

Finishing the website is up there too. And as soon as we get into our first festival, I'll be releasing a new trailer too.


The only bad news is we may not have any DVDs to dish out until late 2011 because of festival policies.


But the counter good news is that with the movie completed, I'll be focusing all my creative energy on that new project. It's been evading me, but I think I'll be able to get down and dirty with it once GOS is off my conscience.

...Outer Space

Had an interesting revelation when looking up the trailer on youtube.

When you search for "Getting Outer Space trailer" the other results that come up are for "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "It Came From Outer Space," "Teenagers From Outer Space," "I Married a Monster From Outer Space," and "Killer Clowns From Outer Space."

This is just awesome. And that's not sarcastic.

As many of you know, our title has been around well before the movie. It was one of the first things I came up with when I first wrote the short film back in 2005/2006. It's a great title. That's why I kept it. The idea behind it has always been the slight play on words with the first part being "Getting Out" which can then be sort of thought as "Getting Out to Space," which is what your motivation is when building a spaceship. Also, more straightforward is just thinking of "outer space" as an idea/goal/mindset that is obtained. In some ways the title is laying out the plot and that "outer space" is the end goal of the movie...whatever that may represent. This story has existed in probably 30 different conceptual forms in my head over the years, but it's always at its core been about someone building a spaceship as an emotional escape (because doing it for real is absurd...which is also what i like about it). So whether the ship literally takes off and the person literally "gets out" or not, the idea and process of building it is a distraction and escape from real world problems. The ship is both literally and metaphorically a vessel to escape the world.

In this iteration of the story it's also a theme with the father and Neil both leaving/trying to leave their current lives for something else. Escapism is a major theme.

But that's all to say why it's always been essential for me to spell out "Outer Space" rather than refer to more common shorthand of just "Space". The suggestion of "Out" is core to the whole title.

And apparently spelling out "Outer Space" in a title kind of puts you in this category of kitschy space movies. Particularly old fashioned black and white ones. Since most of the actual space references in the movie are inspired by retro sci-fi, this is really actually an awesome thing. It's the sort of thing you'd expect was intentional, but it actually never crossed my mind until now. But now when you search for movies with "outer space" in the title, our movie will be lumped in with these genre films which are the foundation for our visual/cultural interpretation of "space."

It's very cool to me.