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Gearing up for the HSM release!

So I finished cutting the two trailers for the film... one is a totally E_VILE trailer and the other is all heartwarming haha...so they can appeal to different peepS... I have settled on two new tagline's for the film which when combined are the films USP! OMG voltron like combining for ultimate power?! I never thought I'd see the day when I was excited about Unique Selling Propositions and affiliate marketing 0_o but in a quest to discover a sustainable true indie business model I'm willing to learn anything I have to.... I created 50-60 promo images for the film with the film's tagline's on them and a few blank ones... A few of you have noticed the affiliate program link up above on this blog... that's part of my release plan as well... I will officially launch it in a week or so and provide all the details + marketing materials at that time... I built a site wherein I detail EVERYTHING I've done for this release in a step by step fashion so you

Generation: PSYCHOPATHY

Now I'm no psychologist er whatever but I was skimming through some crappy science magazine... ya know that skips over the research articles and prints pretty info-graphics and crap instead.. Well I came across an article on "The mind of a psychopath" In the article it described tests used to differentiate between a normal mind and a psychopath mind... So they show people a series of images... some normal images and some "disturbing" images... the normal persons brain has an extreme reaction to the disturbing images and the "psychopath" brain doesn't really react... Now this got me thinking like WTF then anyone who has poked around the internet and seen shock/death/decapitation/murder videos or images.... or any kid playing hours of Call of Duty etc watching heads explode and people die in fires is technically a PSYCHOPATH because it doesn't phase them... Check this quote... So let me translate... "THEY DO IT FOR THE LULZ&

Singin for Satan

Since there's a few weeks before the release of Heart String Marionette on June 15th I figured I'd work on my one man satanic barber shop quartet album "Singin for Satan"  Here's a track <p><a href="http://mdotstrange.bandcamp.com/track/bosom-buddies">Bosom_Buddies by M dot Strange</a></p>

Trying too harD

Oh that cliche certain humans like to throw around "trying too hard".... I've heard that one a few times... I've also heard that apparently I create my stuff while on drugs... the truth is I'm not on any drugs and I'm not even trying at all...it just comes out like this naturally with no effort at all 0_o For the ONE person that will want the mp3 ^_^ <p><a href="http://mdotstrange.bandcamp.com/track/the-one-inside-my-head">The one inside my head by M dot Strange</a></p>

The end of the era of selfishness?

So Facebook is worth 100 billion dollars... its value comes from its users data ... yet the users are rewarded by Facebook sharing %0 of their wealth with them... or "watch us get rich while you play farmville" ... So the content and data that gives Facebook its value comes from the users... Facebook gets rich... while users... get... a timeline? tite? 0_o Pinterest is worth 1 billion dollars... yet again its value comes from the time and energy its users expend to pin stuff and they are not paid for their work... and that stuff is content created by other people who are NOT compensated either... but Pinterest is gettin paid... tight? 0_o This can't last can it? Won't people see things like this  and realize that they are being FARMED for their data and time? And won't a time come when people go FUCK THIS?! And no longer use such sites and services if they are NOT allowed to be in on the profits? I mean Google allows people to be in on the profits with Adsen

Some ideas for after the release of the film...

My pal Ricky Grove who is the voice of LORD WOR in Heart String Marionette and an overall awesome d00d was in San Jose yesterday so we had dinner and discussed some ideas that could make the release of the film that much tighteR... Here's some stuff we came up with... Live interactive director, actor, crew commentary So lets say you downloaded and watched the movie and now you want to ask the people who made it some questions or whatever... so how about for a month or so every Friday night HSM will be streamed on Ustream or Livestream and I, along some members of the cast and crew will be doing a live commentary or Q&A as the film streams on screen... so it would be a live commentary track ^ ^ I tested this out with Ustream producer last night and I could get the movie on screen and my mic audio but not the film audio...I'll have to mess with it more but seems doable... will have to figure out how to get multiple peoples audio on as well through skype er some

Selling downloads of your film on your own part 10

So I'm pretty sure initially there will be no 1080p release... the files are too big so I would have to distribute two zip files for that version... it seems if I am to do this myself and if I want to keep it simple I should just sell one version... the 720p version... which after a few days of compression tests I'm able to get  looking REALLY NICE at about 3.7gb... I can make a 720p version thats around 2.4gb but it gets a little chunky looking in some places...still looks good but it has its flaws...  What should my priority be? Smaller download? Or better quality? If I am to stick to the 1080p releasing standards  as dictated by the movie pirating scene ^_^  I'd have to go with a bigger file and as of right now the only practical way I can see distributing such a file would be via torrent and there's no way to like sell a torrent download... you can take donations and make a torrent freely available... that's an option I'm thinking about as well... So I&#

Selling downloads of your film on your own part 9

So I've been doing encoding tests for the film recently... I took a 30 second sequence from the film using the "online" version which is a quicktime movie using the Sheer 10 bit rgb codec to make sure I'm encoding the highest quality source I can... I purposely took shots from the film that I know will be the most difficult to encode without it looking like crap... its the foggiest, dustiest shots and that stuff just LOVES TO CAUSE BANDING Ughhhh.... banding?!?!?! (projectile vomits in terror) Blocking sucks too but it doesn't make me shudder in horror like banding... then banding + blocking AHHHH! SO I am able to create a decent quality 1080p file and keep it at 3.9gb.... 4gb is the file size limit I'm working with for those who have tuned in late ^ ^ BUT its just "decent" and I assume that when people want a 1080p version "decent" isn't good enough so scrap that! So it looks like the 1080p version will be a 6gb movie file that I w

Selling downloads of your film on your own part 8

So now that I've got the major things worked out... where/how I'm going to sell the downloads = DPD I know how to encode the files properly to keep the file sizes down while maximizing quality by learning from movie pirating groups and the movie torrent scene ^ ^ Most people probably look at piracy and just see thievery... but I see unsatisfied customers from Hollywood's shitty practices.... I mean their practices are great for the talentless money grubbers who run the show BUT shitty for the customers... So as always I read peoples comments in various places where movies are sold or pirated to try to get a general feel for the vibe... people love movies... they want to watch them NOW... they'll buy them IF buying them is easier than pirating them AND a reasonable price... In my own experience I pirate stuff because I want to see it NOW but its not available... like a lot of Anime.. the torrented versions would be released YET there was no place to buy a leg