One Sheet and turning a page

Here's our "one sheet" for publicity purposes. Some festivals ask for it, so we're preparing it along with other publicity packet materials outlined at festival sites and at Without A Box.

Road to Opportunity had a premiere showing and is essentially complete. We tweaked it a bit more and are sending it out to other film festivals to see where it might fit in and be screened. In case you don't already know Withoutabox.com, check it out. It helps fine tune your selection process (choosing festivals) and eases your effort to get a film placed. After you register your project at the WAB and describe it in detail, you can search festivals and click the "Qualify this Project" tab to see how well your film matches each festival's requirements.

One sheet, and many pages to go.

Still climbing the learning curve. . . even when the film is complete. . .there is more to learn and do.

Not Road to Perdition

People keep asking us, "What's the name of that film again? Road to Perdition?"

Sometimes our own crew makes the error of calling the film "Road to Perdition". This confusion is probably made because Road to Perdition is the most commonly known "road to" film.

You might have seen the comedy road films of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. More recently there's: "Road to Eldorado", "Road to Avonlea" (TV-series) and "Road to Guantanamo".

If you google "road to" and "film", you'll also find "Road to Opportunity".

RTO's Premiere Film Festival Screening

Road to Opportunity premiered at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California, May 27, 2006.

In April the Pacific Edge Film Festival accepted RTO in its rough cut form.

RTO's final cut wasn't complete in time to enter the competitive portion of the festival, but being selected for screening (as one of only two feature films) was a prize in itself . Being screened at such a venue helped get this film off to a good start.

We are glad that it could open so close to home. Congratulations, Pacific Edge, and thanks Mondavi Center. It was a good event.

Thanks to everyone involved. Thanks to everyone who attended the premiere of Road to Opportunity.

Post production post

Post production: Editing, sound and sound editing, music, visual effects, voice overs (or AVR which stands for Additional Voice Replacement).
These were much of what we worked on in April and May.
Hundreds of hours. Now I see how the film industy employs so many people.
Check out the credits on many films and you'll see a long list due to so many people employed in post production.
We couldn't have afforded to pay for all the post production we did on our own. There are a lot of student filmmakers who don't get around to learning the programs involved in post production. It ususally ends up being a bigger-budget item.
Films are indebted to a lot of software these days, including things as simple as color correction and editing, to things more complex, such as visual effects, which we experiemented a lot with.
It was our first feature and hard to judge the time it would take to tweak the earlier rough cut we sent in to the Pacific Edge Film Festival. When they notified us that it was accepted, we got to the point where we were working around the clock without sleep to come up with a suitable cut.
We had a good premiere screening, but we are using the time since to tweak it further prior to submission to other festivals.
Thanks to everyone who came through for us during those deadline-crunching days.