Teaser Trailer -- Major News

Hey there, big news to share about the planned teaser trailer for the movie.

On my last post, it looked like things might be delayed because the disc my friend had made concerning the effects needed for the trailer had gotten lost in the mail. Shortly afterwards, it looked unlikely he could make another, not for a while anyway, cause of the time it took to get the first one made and the fact that it would be impossible to make a duplicate.

A couple of days ago, I got good news from my friend. He told me that he was able to recover some of the footage he made the last time, be able to make some new effects and then merge the two. So that means that there's a chance I can get the much needed effects part after all, and a lot sooner than I had hoped.

That's one part of the news. The other part is sometime next weekend, filming will begin on the live action part of the trailer. I'd sent over the script to my other friend, who's playing the lead role in the movie, the other day. Shortly afterwards, we had talked over what I'd wanted to see in the trailer (because he lives in Minnesota and I live in Michigan, this is the only way I can tell him what I want to see since I can't be there for the actual shoot) and he's totally on board with my vision. I understand that he and another friend will be filming that next weekend and as soon as he can get it done, he'll send over the file.

So once I get those two elements, I'll be able to edit them all together to make what I hope would be a two-or-three minute trailer on the movie. My hope, if everything comes together, is to have it out by either late October (Halloween, perhaps?) or early November. That's a plan that a week and a half ago, I didn't think was possible. But now, I believe it will be.

So that's it for now. I'll have another update sometime next week.