FEATURE: Leap: Revelation
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El Director
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Thanks!
I saw you have one for sale lol I have considered it, but not in a place money-wise right now to do so. Maybe after I get my first payment from Indie Rights.
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Day One of Filming Vlog:
The Homemade VFX of Leap:
The Homemade VFX of Leap:
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Congratulations on getting this done and out into the world. A monumental task, especially considering all the VFX you take on, sheesh. I’m wondering why you don’t release it yourself initially? I would imagine there’s a group of people who are your core audience who will watch this wherever it’s available. Why not maximize the $ from those people first before going to indie rights? Or do you need those core people to buy through amazon, etc., to bump the algorithm and that’s worth the financial difference? Thank you for sharing your journey through the process.
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Thanks Matt! I did initially plan to release it myself, I even had uploaded all the artwork and information to Amazon. I go to login the next day and get a message that my account had been terminated due to inactivity since I hadn't uploaded the actual film yet and Amazon has changed their policy. So the only way at all to get this out was to give up a slice of the pie to Indie Rights. Cool part is that it'll be out on Tubi in two weeks as well, which is a platform I never could have gotten on my own.
Aside from the 20%, the only real downside is that I can't see how the movie is actually doing. I'll get quarterly reports and payments from IR, and those reports will tell me a lot, but it's not the same as tracking it realtime, day-to-day. A plus however is that IR has provided a Google slide deck with a lot of good marketing training, so that's a help.
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The movie is now out on pretty much every platform we could get on. Amazon, Tubi, Google Play and YouTube TVOD.
Been dealing with a lot of unfair reviews on IMDB from listeners of a podcast that shits on Christian films. Even though they enjoy watching the film to mock it - which I think is great - they take great glee in giving it one star just because they can. I've had some good interactions with some of the people, and they say they appreciate that I'm a good sport, but they still **** on it with the star rating.
In other news, I've started using AI to help build my dream scheduling application. It's an idea I've had for a couple of years but never wanted to take the time to learn to code. So I turned to ChatGPT and Claude. Claude definitely seems to do a better job. Basically, I'm just acting as a project manager. I tell it what I want the app to do, or what changes I'd like to see and in minutes it gives me code that I copy and paste into Xcode (the coding app I'm using). It's been two weeks and I have a working version that could be used as is on my next feature and the best part is that it's tailored to how I want it to work.
Been dealing with a lot of unfair reviews on IMDB from listeners of a podcast that shits on Christian films. Even though they enjoy watching the film to mock it - which I think is great - they take great glee in giving it one star just because they can. I've had some good interactions with some of the people, and they say they appreciate that I'm a good sport, but they still **** on it with the star rating.
In other news, I've started using AI to help build my dream scheduling application. It's an idea I've had for a couple of years but never wanted to take the time to learn to code. So I turned to ChatGPT and Claude. Claude definitely seems to do a better job. Basically, I'm just acting as a project manager. I tell it what I want the app to do, or what changes I'd like to see and in minutes it gives me code that I copy and paste into Xcode (the coding app I'm using). It's been two weeks and I have a working version that could be used as is on my next feature and the best part is that it's tailored to how I want it to work.