Pre-production on "One Year Later" has stepped up several gears! We've launched a Twitter page, a Facebook group, we've cast our first part and our crowd-funding page has been launched!
You might be asking why are we looking at crowd-funding to raise the money we need to shoot the film. Simple answer. It's the easiest way these days to access the money to pay for props, costumes, locations, equipment rental, catering, travel expenses, and most importantly, paying our cast and crew.
In an ideal world we would go to a film studio and say "Hey! We've got this great short film, it's got this big star in it, and this big star in it and we're going to open at the Cannes film festival!" and they would hand us £50,000 and we'd go make a cracking film.
Sadly we are now in a time of financial insecurity, people aren't taking the risks any more, and we don't have access to Tom Cruise and Keira Knightly. If we went to the likes of Creative Scotland for support they would firstly just turn us away. We as of yet do not have a successful track record of financing a short film and getting it out into the big bad world. After OYL we will do, and then we can look at that. Secondly, if they did accept us and offered their help they would want a LOT of control over it - our cast and crew would get replaced, they would change the script and take full control over it.
I would prefer to have creative freedom on this particular short film as then I can make the decisions, with my team we can choose the perfect cast, locations, shots, feel of the film etc. We also don't need £50,000 to pull the film off. That's a lot of money to gamble on a 10 minute film. Instead we're looking for just £3,000 - of which we are trying to raise £2,000 through Crowd-funding. The remaining money will come from myself, private investment etc.
We've got lots of perks up for grabs such as signed scripts, set visits, copies of the film on DVD, invite to the premiere screening, the cast and crew wrap party, signed postcards, and so forth. From as little as £1 you can have your name on the end credits of the film and thanked on our Twitter and Facebook page.
Every single penny goes to the film - and most importantly to paying the cast and crew for their time, skills and services.
So if you have a spare quid please donate it to us at http://www.bloomvc.com/project/One-Year-Later-A-Supernatural-Rom-Com and bring us closer to making this short film. We've got 60 days to raise the money and if we don't then the movie will simply not get made. I am not asking the cast and crew to work for free. We've all done our freebies and it's time we moved up a little.
If you don't have a spare pound then tell your friends, your families and your work colleagues. Spread the word, see if they have a spare pound, or more. Myself and the cast and crew would really appreciate it.
Below are some movies and projects we've made in the past with no money.
Thank you for your support.
Below is the trailer for our new supernatural TV show, "Bloodline", we successfully raised the money via crowd-funding to make the pilot episode.
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