The Update and Next Project...

We are now in the process of sending out the final version of "Broken Arrows" to film festivals for our world premiere.

In the upcoming weeks we will begin casting for our next movie "The Grace".

Dreamworks screening and Final Master..

On Monday, February 26th we will be having a screening down at Dreamworks Animation in Glendale, CA.

This weekend I will be looking over the final version of the film with all of the credits, sound mix, special fx, and more all done. If everything goes well then we will make the final HD master next week.

Following the making of the master, we will schedule our cast and crew screening over the next few months.

Screening Feedback.

Now we are pretty much done with all of the test screenings and I can not be happier with the results and feedback from people. We collected feedback from approximately 150 people and here were the major things that the majority of people said in all of the test screenings.

• One of the most unique movies that they have ever seen. There are only a handful of movies that are out there that are like "Broken Arrows". One of the most interesting and complex stories told, which requires the viewer to really pay attention and think.
  
  
• Cinematography was amazing. The film looks fantastic. Loved the camera angles, camera moves, and editing.
  
  
• The acting is great. People are really drawn into the characters and really feel connected and want to see what happens to the characters.
  
  
• The ending of the movie is great, surpising, and really uplifting. The movie really builds up to the climaxes in the middle and ending of the film. (1 in 3 people cry or get teary-eyed at the ending.)
  
  
• The music is great. Love the music.
  

Scoring and screeners..

The last two weeks has been mainly focused on adding the musical score from the amazing John Williams. This weekend we are burning the DVDs to go off to the printers for the DVD screeners that we will be sending out. Then we will be going through the process of determining where and when we will have the premiere (which will be early 2007).After this big push to get the screeners out we will have more private screenings at some studios.

"Broken Arrows" in Google humor..

Here's a link to a funny article in the San Jose Mercury News about the Google Jet and the on plane movie..... "Broken Arrows". :)

The Article.

Upcoming screening at Dreamworks Animation.

We are going to have a screening for the fine people at Dreamworks Animation in Redwood City on July 18th. This will be the first screening of the film with 100+ people. I will give a little intro on the film, show the film, and then we will have an hour Q&A session about the film with a handful of cast and crew members.

Big screenings coming up..

The test screening last week went really and we are putting the finishing structural touches on the film over the next two weeks.

Right now, we are in the process of putting together two to three larger screenings (each of about 150-300 people) of the rough cut with panel discussions in July. Then we are on to audio post and getting all of the material ready for film festival submissions (unless we accept an offer from a major film festival to premiere at their festival before the submission deadlines which is also possible).

The good news is that there has been tremendously positive feedback from the test screenings. People seem to really like the film everything from the unique storyline to the visuals to the acting. Everyone involved has been very excited because of this feedback at such an early stage.

More test screening and getting ready for festival submissions.

This week we are going to have a small screening of the changes that Steve (editor) and I have made to the first 20-30 minutes of the film.

In three weeks, we are going to have a couple of big test screenings to get feedback on the timing and polishing, but I am very happy with the current state of the film.

Starting in mid-July, we will be working on the audio post production and should be submitting the film to the top tier festivals in late-August to late-September.

Bigger test screening went very well.

On Saturday night (May 6th) we had another test screening for about 40 people and projected it in HD. It looked fantastic and everyone said that the film looked fantastic and the acting was great. I'm very happy and all of the feedback was completely in line with what we are going to work on over the upcoming weeks. Right now, I think that the first 20 minutes are still a little dark and slow. This is the first major thing we are reworking. After the first 20 minutes, it really kicks in and the pacing and interest level I'm very happy with.

Within a month, we'll have a number of the changes done that I want to make and we're going to have some more test screenings. If everything is working, then we are going to start locking things down and start on doing the audio polishing and design.

Great screening.. Next test screening coming up..

Saturday night's screening was fantastic and it was great to see the movie with lots of music in a larger space with great audio and a crowd.

The comments of what we should change were pretty much in line with the next few things that we were going to work on but didn't have time to do for this screening. We should have enough time to make the changes that I want to make by the time of our next screening which will probably be the first or second weekend of May.

It was great to hear that people thought that the film was much closer to being finished and polished than they expected for a first test screening. Steve (editor) and I were able to drop a lot more music and clean up the audio the week before the screening and this really helped.