By Leaps And Bounds

In my previous post I was haranguing about my wish to reach the $10,000 mark during the week that began Monday, if we count Monday as the first day, knowing that for the divinity Sunday was the seventh day and it was time to rest.

Ok, so, I posted my energetic lucubration when all of a sudden our campaign jumped from 5,279 to 6,179!

I had to make sure that what I was seeing wasn’t some kind of mistake, some weird system error, some joke or even some manipulation from the dark side… but no, it was all real and I didn’t have to question my sanity. As I said to the one responsible for such a jump, I was ready to do my joy dance to Shekhina, the mother of all things.

So, as of this writing, we are 24% into our campaign, with 6,179 in the treasure box and ready to push for MORE!

One direct result of this sudden jump up, is that we’re ready to allocate resources. And I explain. Before yesterday, with little over 5,000 in funds, we were thinking where would those funds be more useful, barring a trip to Bahamas, of course, but we were thinking in general terms, nothing specific, but now we can actually allocate funds to definitive tasks. We divided the current funds into thirds. One third will go to the crew and equipment, another third will go to the cast and costumes and the last third to production costs such as props, location expenses, catering, transportation and so on.

By allocating the funds this way we know what we can pay right away and how much more we still need to raise, borrow, steal, to manage the entire production. We will match those funds, of course, we have to do it, but we prefer to have ALL the funds we need to cover those expenses.

Like I said, the production of Seditiosa is now ongoing. I will have some details of what is happening with the production during this week. In the meantime… Let’s take this project up another notch!

I have previously bought the download and DVD. I will do my best to make one last push via a contribution in the future when I am slightly more able financially speaking to spare some $$$, but before the contributions close.
Crucified Life

That’s the spirit! I don’t know how many people are really active in any of the forums I participate in and where our target audience seems to congregate. It seems to me that there aren’t that many, in other words, we have a small audience, but maybe not that small, maybe there are enough people willing to contribute to the cause and the easiest way is putting in 25 bucks and in exchange the contributor will be in the short list of the lucky ones that will see the movie before the rest of the world does.

When producers decide to make a particular movie the first question that comes to their board meetings is Who is your audience?, that question is put forth to the scriptwriters who are presenting the project to the money people… Who is your audience?

Our scriptwriter would say… ‘crux lovers‘ and the next question would be How Many Are They, how many millions and where are they?

At the end of the meeting, our scriptwriter would be taking the elevator with an empty wallet, his script wet with the cold sweat flowing from his hands holding it. The numbers in our target audience do not register well and why is that?

How can we increase the numbers in our target audience. That’s the question we need to answer.

I am getting a bit concerned regarding timing. If I recall correctly, the 69 movie was supposed to be done filming by now, and the Double Cross movie was supposed to be released last week. Both did not meet. Given that Seditiosa is going to have a lot of outdoor sites, is it on schedule to film this summer? Is the August 2023 release date on schedule?
wanttoknowmore

Each production has its own progress, 69 Année Érotique is a combination of two original scripts Jac wrote. One of them was titled Jaula, and it was loosely based in Jekyll and Hyde. During that time, Amy was writing Barbazul. The plan was to produce Barbazul and right after Jaula. Both of those films had Amy and Mila in the leading roles. It was the first time Mila was going to be in a movie.

Jaula was shelved because we got an offer with some nice cash to produce an inquisition film with a certain prop. We accepted and in November of 2010 we began producing Maleficarum, we stopped for a bit to go to a far away location to shoot Barbazul. Four weeks later we returned to continue shooting Maleficarum. We had issues with the weather sometimes and we only had Sundays early morning for the scenes in the colonial street, so we had to postpone shooting a few time times. Maleficarum was completed by the end of February. We immediately jumped into Le Marquis de la Croix because we could. By March of 2011 we had THREE big productions in the can.

7 months later we released Maleficarum online, in October 2011. Barbazul was released in October 2012 and Le Marquis was also released in October 2012.

Something similar happened in 2015. Jac wrote two scripts, Pygmalion and Justine and having released Olalla that year, the moment to jump into production was there.

Pygmalion was produced in August 2015, it was directed by Amy, while Justine was shot between the end of November and the beginning of December of 2015 and it was directed by Jac.

Amy left for the US at the end of December, the night after they shot her last scenes in Justine. In June of 2016 Jac had to go to the jungles of Bolivia for three months to shoot the Jaguars project for NatGeo and still, Justine was released in October of 2016. Pygmalion will be released in March of next year.

Maleficarum and Justine were the priority back then, like Seditiosa is now.

69 Année Érotique is an intricate film like Pygmalion, it has a complex story, it is a film within a film, there are physical and psychological changes in characters played by the protagonists, specially Jac, who has to look very different in his three impersonations.

Because of its labyrinthine structure the script goes through adjustments, revisions, changes with frequency. Even now, after it was apparently all set,.. more changes, additions, eliminations are forthcoming. Although it was planned to be produced sometime between September and October of this year, things got in the way, other and more demanding work, like the pitch and tests for Seditiosa, some slow moving post production work on the other films and issues like that..

There’s a trip to New York for the middle of November, so I don’t think if we’ll start production of 69 Année Érotique before that. We will, however, shoot it during the first three weeks of December, if all goes well with everything.

By the middle of December we will know how much money we have for Seditiosa, and we’ll begin production in January for four weeks. August still looks good for its release.

If, by any chance, 69 can’t be produced in December, as planned, it will get postponed until we’re done with Seditiosa, but the most likely scenario is that we’ll shoot 69 for three weeks and right after that we’ll go into production with Seditiosa.

As I finish this post, news come to me that we have a few of hundred more in our treasury box for a total of 6,229. Let’s go people, 10,000 this week!