Teaser Trailer -- Delayed Until Further Notice

Hey there.

Trust me when I say that the above headline is NOT I wanted to type out today. If anything I wanted to announce that my friend had completed filming the live action part of the teaser trailer, or even better, that I had both the live action and effects footage and was hard at work editing it together.

Instead, I have to type out these words.

Delayed Until Further Notice.

Which sucks, big time.

Well, let me first explain how we got to this point. On Friday, my friend had informed me that on Saturday, he and his friend would be heading out to their location in Minnesota to shoot the live action segment of the teaser trailer. Very exciting news. Then earlier on Saturday, I went over with my friend - who's playing the lead role in the movie, by the way- what I wanted to see in each shot. What range or angle I was looking for and even coming up with some last minute changes to help the project along. If things went well, my friend would tell me either later that evening or today how the shoot went and possibly, when I would get the footage together to help craft the two-to-three minute trailer.

Instead, when I talked with him late last night, he basically told me that he got nothing from the shoot.

Damn.

He explained that his friend, who would be doing the camera work for the shoot didn't get in until late. And by the time he arrived, it was getting late for them to get any footage in at all for the trailer.

Damn again.

So, here I am, back where I was at the beginning. With nothing. And, again typing the following words: Delayed Until Further Notice.

So what happens now? Well I hope to see if it's at all possible for my friend to get together with his friend to try again another time. From what he tells me, they get together about once a month, but maybe I can convince him to meet up at an earlier time. We'll see.

Meanwhile, my other friend, who's doing the effects part for the trailer, is still at a holding pattern because of his current situation with school and moving to a new place. But, he is able to salvage some of the old footage together (from the original disc he'd sent me that had gotten lost in the mail) and could have something done soon.

So, until both of those elements come together, it looks like I won't have anything to show you guys in October or early November. At this rate, it's looking unlikely that I won't have anything until the new year if I'm lucky. I really hope that 's not the case, because the more I think of it, the more I want to use this teaser trailer as a tool to possibly drum up funds to help with the actual movie. I'm also tossing around the idea of doing a more simple teaser just to get the word out, but I want to talk it over with my friend first.

So, until I say different, the teaser trailer for MOTW is delayed until further notice. To say I'm disappointed in this bit of news is an understatement. Words can't even describe how I'm feeling. This was a perfect opportunity to present an early look of what my film will be about. But instead, I'm at a holding pattern. The only thing that's keeping me sane right now is the fact that I'm not the first, nor the last, to have a movie project get temporarily derailed. Hopefully, something will develop shortly that will help put my teaser trailer -- and possibly even next year's movie shoot -- back on track.

That's it for now. I'll have another update next week, or earlier if things warrant.