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Category Archives: The Work in Progress
Ice Fishing for Thoughts.
When a girl goes to forest and there, in the darkness, a wolf accosts her, scaring her witless, it would be good if she came back and told the villagers what she saw. It may keep another girl from venturing … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, arts, fishing, humor, illustration, mind, thoughts
3 Comments
Getting to the Finish Line.
You know that feeling when the worry is so overpowering it is about to snap you in half? In the last two months I spent a few nights in a company of such worry. But not to worry – we worked … Continue reading
Making a Rock to Roll.
Recently I looked through the notes from our two test screening feedback sessions and one note struck me as immensely important: 2 audience members didn’t feel connected to the main character right off the bat, so when she launches on … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized, Videos
Tagged animation, feedback sessions, stop motion
18 Comments
Kickstarter Aftermath: Packing Rewards.
Guess what – on Valentine’s Day morning, after we reached our Kickstarter goal, I went to a local liquor store and got a bottle of Moscato. Not that I know much or care about Moscato, but drinking champaign at lunch … Continue reading
Posted in Fundraising, The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged bunny, Kickstarter, moscato, packing, rewards, scintillating scotoma
13 Comments
Hard Data Vs. Soft Data of a Kickstarter campaign.
In Digital Age it’s seductive to reduce people to numbers, as it makes hard data easily available. – My video has been viewed 41,374 times on YouTube! – My blog had 52,937 visitors last year! – I have 1,237 friends … Continue reading
Posted in Fundraising, The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, crowd financing, entertainment, filmmaking, Kickstarter, media, Women
3 Comments
The Upcoming Moment of Truth.
Have you ever experienced The Moment of Truth? Like, when you come to an exam well prepared and get asked that only question you had no time to do a research for? Or, like, when after 6 months of sleeping … Continue reading
Weather and Politics vs Work in Progress.
One side effect of being a storyteller is that by telling a story you disconnect your emotions from reality. A major event becomes just a story. This is a reason I didn’t want to write about Sandy The Storm and … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged life, mind, nature, physical obstacles, politics, Sandy, weather, weather reports
4 Comments
Trailer!
A trailer for a film is supposed to tease a potential viewer with delicious little bits without giving away the whole film. A very common industry’s mantra is “a trailer’s task is to sell the film”. But how does a … Continue reading
Timeline.
Ah, where would we be without a timeline – a line that shows us our past achievements and the challenges of the future? Without putting time (which, we are told by many, is a mess of simultaneous events, as everything … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, arts, entertainment, feature film, film, first feature film, humor, process, rocks in my pockets
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