The Cross for Seditiosa II

After the outpouring of support that One day sometime ago, things have slowed down in our campaign to make the big production values film Seditiosa. Money is coming in, little by little, and that is ok too. We have 47 days to bring in the cash.

But the discussions are as active as ever, even more so because the feeling out there is that we have reached all goals and we should be making the movie today. And some are critical of my factual posts, which are a reminder that we’re still far from production.

When you post stuff like this, folks will lose confidence that the film will be made in any kind of a timely manner. You should be more positive – like we have narrowed the sites down to a couple of locations and the are finalizing the cross configurations. State when that will be done, along with some of the other long lead stuff.
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The production of a movie has some definite stages. It’s not the same as the NO Budget Two Cast and Crew films like the CruXtreme series that can be done at the drop of a hat because we have everything for it, the amazing cast of one… sometimes two, the tremendous crew of one, all the props, the whips, the blood, the location… everything. We can do a few of them in a year.

Seditiosa is a big production values film and we have to go through all the mandatory stages. Finding the locations and making the props are just two of them. We also have to design and make costumes, but before we engage in that pursuit we have to cast all the characters we don’t have yet, that’s most of them, but most importantly, we have to have the complete script to know exactly how many min, supporting and bit actors we need, and after that, how many extras can we afford to clothe, transport and feed.

Seditiosa is a big production like Justine was and that’s how it is done.

We are working on the initial stages, the very important script and the no less important work of pre-production.

We know what kind of locations we need and we have a pretty good idea of where they are. But we need to go there, select the areas that are best for the film. I think it is good to share our intention with people so they’ll have an idea of what is going on. My comments are not a complete report on what we are doing. It’s impossible to go into full details of what is happening because then I would need to write a book every week.

**Mila and Erix checking locations for Maleficarum**

You also need to get some contracts cut to get stuff made NOW with payment in December. Saying now you need an additional $1000 after posting you are kicking things off again reinforces the perception that this thing is never going to be made in a timely manner.
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The comment about the 1,000 bucks was just a way for me to make a point to encourage people to buy our movies. The more movies we sell, the more money we have and the more money we can use to get Seditiosa on the road. That’s all.

In these parts of the world where the informal economy rules, everything is cash at hand, specially with places like lumber mills, carpentry shops. They will not move a finger nor will they take a splinter off your eyeball without an advance and will not deliver the goods without the final payment. And we must be prepared for delays. We schedule those too.

We will be going up to a city called El Alto, above the city of La Paz, where we will find the wood for the crosses, but we have to have a pretty good design of what we need and exactly how we need it. That’s what we did it when Amy designed a prop for Justine. She made a blueprint for the people at the lumber mill/carpentry to cut it to her specifications and when they were done and we picked up the parts of the prop, she built it and it worked out pretty well.

With regard to the wood type, allow me to suggest balsa, at least for the cross member. It will be light enough for the gals to carry, even in the more substantive dimensions needed for the strength and the visual impact. You can also make a composite beam with a piece of plywood sandwiched into the balsa, which again will add strength and stiffness with much weight. You can then “weather” the wood via a gray stain with much issue.
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Any work with any type of wood will require we have a design for both, the crossbeam and the stipe, it seems simple enough, but there are some details to be considered, like how will the crossbeam be attached to the stipe, how high exactly. How long is the stipe going to be and other important details like that. So, back to the location. We must know where those crosses are going to be, what kind of terrain, because we will have to dig holes to plant those vertical logs of wood, and they have to be secured so they will stay there no matter what you attach to them. Size matters and it is my belief that they will stay there forever.

We have years of accumulated experience on trying different ways of having a crucifixion, so many ways, so it is not difficult to make decisions, but we need the basic parameters to choose one or another type of cross for the film and that is part of pre production and that’s the stage we are in right now.

But fear not, those decisions are not going to take forever.

We have 47 days left for the campaign and now at 17% toward our goal. Let’s move it up to 20% before the weekend is over! I want to wake up Monday morning and find that we’re on our way to 50%!

If 1000 people pre-buy the DVD for 30 bucks or the download for 25… we have the funds for the film!

If one person puts 25,000 on the table… we have the funds!

It’s that easy!

I will be happy if at least 100 people pre buy a download for 25 bucks right now! Instead of paying 35+35 when it finally comes out. I would be even happier if 5 people contribute 500… or a combination of the two… or…