Spent all of yesterday tweaking and locking down Location Releases, Actor Agreements, and Crew Contracts. Waiting for everything to get signed, now (I've got three signatures so far).
Bird has started working on the Merchandise page for the website. Our metrics show that a little over 5% of the monthly views to the site are people checking to see if we're selling product yet...so I'm writing to tell you, emphatically, YES!
Almost.
Soon.
We're talking to a screen printer about getting large orders of a few different T-shirts made, as well as putting together sticker grab-bags with all sorts of naughty phrases and cool art slapped all over them. We're trying to figure out what other merch people are interested in or would want to see. Marlon zippos? Underpants?
(I just thought of something hilarious we could put on underwear.)
Hoodies? Coffee Cups? Posters? Hats? Pins? Sex toys? We're definitely going to have copies of the soundtrack available on CD and digital download in the next few months.
The film itself will be available on DVD and digital download as soon as the festival run is over (so we can still try to get a distribution deal)...which means late 2016, even though it'll be finished by this March. If you want to see it before then, you'll just have to drive to all the awesome festivals where it'll be playing! (And surely winning award after prestigious award, right guys? Guys?)
So, things are trucking along. The color correction will be finished and the color grade begun as soon as Tyler is well again. Stephen and I will finish the rough edit this Sunday. I'm sitting down with a Sound Designer this week to talk about...er, Sound Design (go figure), and all the balls that need to be rolling are rolling.
(All the balls. Heehee.)
In the meantime, while we wait, let us know what Merchandise you'd like to see us start working on while we finish the movie! Comment below!
(And because you all deserve it, here's some more color corrected stills from last week!)
