#preproduction — Public Fediverse posts
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In 2011, Kickstarter was getting a lot of hype, and I thought maybe I'd try crowdfunding. I also recognized that my own attempts at character design were sadly lacking. I remembered Daniel Fu, who had worked on a previous project, and I thought I'd approach him with an offer to commission the designs.
This would be the bulk of the funds from the Kickstarter we'd set up. I would also work on the mech side of the Concept Art and continue developing process, storyboards, and direction. Rosalyn Hunter and I would finish writing the screenplay for a pilot episode (this evolved quite a bit after that).
So I started specifically producing video content to use in the Kickstarter campaign. I also did an initial commission for Daniel to create character concept pages -- the idea was to use these in the pitch, get funding which would then pay him for model-sheets and other "serious" character design art, which would then be the input for 3D character modeling.
Likewise, I would begin drawing up set and mechanical plans, as well as finishing the storyboards for the entire pilot episode. The final work product would be the concept art / modelsheet drawings, and a one-hour pilot episode storyboard animatic.
Of course, I reused the videos I had created for Free Software Magazine, but I made several new ones. I just re-uploaded these:
Georgiana Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/h8ac5KVezRxw9pNGsiSvyi
Lo-Fi Proxy of the Lunar Transportation System "Moon Shuttle"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/wxgFQnNa865wUBkD8LgQSZ
This model was entirely by me. My Blender skills were pretty basic at the time.
Hiromi Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/9YFUig9aeegbV6t9kk8uEy
Staging Spacecraft with Moving Camera
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/w76hb5yhqrDi77uBQZAipk
This was a technique test in Blender, using constraints to move the camera during a spatially complex shot. This was mainly to go with a Free Software Magazine article, but was closely related to Lunatics.
Josh Farmer Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/i5o4DVZvZgUFSZngrk7Y5p
Yes, it's a little on-the-nose that our agricultural expert is named "Farmer". All the characters kind of started out as satire, and gradually developed more layers during writing and production.
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
In 2011, Kickstarter was getting a lot of hype, and I thought maybe I'd try crowdfunding. I also recognized that my own attempts at character design were sadly lacking. I remembered Daniel Fu, who had worked on a previous project, and I thought I'd approach him with an offer to commission the designs.
This would be the bulk of the funds from the Kickstarter we'd set up. I would also work on the mech side of the Concept Art and continue developing process, storyboards, and direction. Rosalyn Hunter and I would finish writing the screenplay for a pilot episode (this evolved quite a bit after that).
So I started specifically producing video content to use in the Kickstarter campaign. I also did an initial commission for Daniel to create character concept pages -- the idea was to use these in the pitch, get funding which would then pay him for model-sheets and other "serious" character design art, which would then be the input for 3D character modeling.
Likewise, I would begin drawing up set and mechanical plans, as well as finishing the storyboards for the entire pilot episode. The final work product would be the concept art / modelsheet drawings, and a one-hour pilot episode storyboard animatic.
Of course, I reused the videos I had created for Free Software Magazine, but I made several new ones. I just re-uploaded these:
Georgiana Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/h8ac5KVezRxw9pNGsiSvyi
Lo-Fi Proxy of the Lunar Transportation System "Moon Shuttle"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/wxgFQnNa865wUBkD8LgQSZ
This model was entirely by me. My Blender skills were pretty basic at the time.
Hiromi Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/9YFUig9aeegbV6t9kk8uEy
Staging Spacecraft with Moving Camera
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/w76hb5yhqrDi77uBQZAipk
This was a technique test in Blender, using constraints to move the camera during a spatially complex shot. This was mainly to go with a Free Software Magazine article, but was closely related to Lunatics.
Josh Farmer Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/i5o4DVZvZgUFSZngrk7Y5p
Yes, it's a little on-the-nose that our agricultural expert is named "Farmer". All the characters kind of started out as satire, and gradually developed more layers during writing and production.
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
I have begun re-uploading early project videos. So, why not have a little "memory lane" posting, while I'm at it...
In 2010, I was not fully committed to doing this project, but I was playing around with it, and I had posted several experimental videos on YouTube, along with articles for Free Software Magazine, an online magazine devoted to FOSS topics, that I wrote for from 2005 to 2013.
The earliest videos in this set are from that period:
Soyuz Rollout Animatic (Using Reference Photos)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/grChLqTPPPTa6VXPy2PJPL
(I re-uploaded this one awhile back when the failure was first reported to me).
A Storyboard Animatic Using Inkscape and Blender
(I did two versions of this for some reason -- one has some color. Otherwise, no difference):
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5525fHVs7kYiQnkF1zDKaE
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/hqcWUSEFQuLPKVyL1XfcHU
This was the first incarnation of that shot at the beginning of the episode (it's actually the 2nd shot, after the cosmic zoom shot).
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
I have begun re-uploading early project videos. So, why not have a little "memory lane" posting, while I'm at it...
In 2010, I was not fully committed to doing this project, but I was playing around with it, and I had posted several experimental videos on YouTube, along with articles for Free Software Magazine, an online magazine devoted to FOSS topics, that I wrote for from 2005 to 2013.
The earliest videos in this set are from that period:
Soyuz Rollout Animatic (Using Reference Photos)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/grChLqTPPPTa6VXPy2PJPL
(I re-uploaded this one awhile back when the failure was first reported to me).
A Storyboard Animatic Using Inkscape and Blender
(I did two versions of this for some reason -- one has some color. Otherwise, no difference):
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5525fHVs7kYiQnkF1zDKaE
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/hqcWUSEFQuLPKVyL1XfcHU
This was the first incarnation of that shot at the beginning of the episode (it's actually the 2nd shot, after the cosmic zoom shot).
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
#Alien #AlienFranchise #AlienUniverse #Prometheus #AlienCovenant
#AlienParadise #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpaceHorror #CosmicHorror
#Screenwriting #Screenplay #WritingCommunity #FilmWriting
#SpecScript #IndieFilm #FilmCommunity #Fediverse #Mastodon#20thCenturyStudios #ScottFree #ScottFreeProductions
#Disney #FilmDevelopment #Development #PreProduction
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#Alien #AlienFranchise #AlienUniverse #Prometheus #AlienCovenant
#AlienParadise #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpaceHorror #CosmicHorror
#Screenwriting #Screenplay #WritingCommunity #FilmWriting
#SpecScript #IndieFilm #FilmCommunity #Fediverse #Mastodon#20thCenturyStudios #ScottFree #ScottFreeProductions
#Disney #FilmDevelopment #Development #PreProduction
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8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution
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8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution
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8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution
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8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution
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8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution
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My new story concept art pics for my upcoming project LEGO The Brick Syndrome! The story follows a variant of Batman, insecure about his identity as a hero in a sea of other Batman variant “better” than he is….what he does about it changes the fate of the multiverse (I know, cliche, but when done right….it pays 😁)
#lego #conceptart #story #batman #legobatman #dcmultiverse #multiverse #storytwist #plot #filmmaking #preproduction #fanprojects #fanart #stopmotion #brickfilm #dc #legodimensions
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My new story concept art pics for my upcoming project LEGO The Brick Syndrome! The story follows a variant of Batman, insecure about his identity as a hero in a sea of other Batman variant “better” than he is….what he does about it changes the fate of the multiverse (I know, cliche, but when done right….it pays 😁)
#lego #conceptart #story #batman #legobatman #dcmultiverse #multiverse #storytwist #plot #filmmaking #preproduction #fanprojects #fanart #stopmotion #brickfilm #dc #legodimensions
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My new story concept art pics for my upcoming project LEGO The Brick Syndrome! The story follows a variant of Batman, insecure about his identity as a hero in a sea of other Batman variant “better” than he is….what he does about it changes the fate of the multiverse (I know, cliche, but when done right….it pays 😁)
#lego #conceptart #story #batman #legobatman #dcmultiverse #multiverse #storytwist #plot #filmmaking #preproduction #fanprojects #fanart #stopmotion #brickfilm #dc #legodimensions
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My new story concept art pics for my upcoming project LEGO The Brick Syndrome! The story follows a variant of Batman, insecure about his identity as a hero in a sea of other Batman variant “better” than he is….what he does about it changes the fate of the multiverse (I know, cliche, but when done right….it pays 😁)
#lego #conceptart #story #batman #legobatman #dcmultiverse #multiverse #storytwist #plot #filmmaking #preproduction #fanprojects #fanart #stopmotion #brickfilm #dc #legodimensions
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My new story concept art pics for my upcoming project LEGO The Brick Syndrome! The story follows a variant of Batman, insecure about his identity as a hero in a sea of other Batman variant “better” than he is….what he does about it changes the fate of the multiverse (I know, cliche, but when done right….it pays 😁)
#lego #conceptart #story #batman #legobatman #dcmultiverse #multiverse #storytwist #plot #filmmaking #preproduction #fanprojects #fanart #stopmotion #brickfilm #dc #legodimensions
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Cyberpunk 2077 Reaches 30 Million Sales, Pre-Production Begins for New Game
#cdprojekt #Cyberpunk2077 #gamedevelopment #preproduction #videogames
https://blazetrends.com/cyberpunk-2077-reaches-30-million-sales-pre-production-begins-for-new-game/?fsp_sid=40666 -
Making a #ShortFilm — #PreProduction Workflow Step-by-Step
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/making-short-film-pre-production/
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Making a #ShortFilm — #PreProduction Workflow Step-by-Step
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/making-short-film-pre-production/
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Hello #fediverse who among you is using #ubuntustudio ? Or another music recording friendly #distro .
Looking for advise, tips for #MultiTrack band rehearsal recording and #preproduction
How is the driver support? Will i be able to install a #Tascam US18x8 #AudioInterface ?
Is 32bit float a hype or the way to go?
Thinking of using #Bandlab so everyone can access the tracks from home. That worked with previous phone recording during Covid.
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Hello #fediverse who among you is using #ubuntustudio ? Or another music recording friendly #distro .
Looking for advise, tips for #MultiTrack band rehearsal recording and #preproduction
How is the driver support? Will i be able to install a #Tascam US18x8 #AudioInterface ?
Is 32bit float a hype or the way to go?
Thinking of using #Bandlab so everyone can access the tracks from home. That worked with previous phone recording during Covid.
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#FilmNoir #PreProduction #AntiPiracyAD #ITCrowd #Music #Movies #Codecs #FBI #Cops #💩 #DHS
PreProduction step #1, before filming this AD....
Announcers Voice: "You wouldn't #ratelimit an #ADNetwork, would you?"
PrePreProduction Meeting in Germany: "Und now we give away ze codex." 🤨 😆
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#FilmNoir #PreProduction #AntiPiracyAD #ITCrowd #Music #Movies #Codecs #FBI #Cops #💩 #DHS
PreProduction step #1, before filming this AD....
Announcers Voice: "You wouldn't #ratelimit an #ADNetwork, would you?"
PrePreProduction Meeting in Germany: "Und now we give away ze codex." 🤨 😆
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Time for a quick #ProductionDiary Update! I'm basically back in #PreProduction, or more accurately in a hybrid preproduction/writing phase. Set up another jam last night and it was really flowing, sounded great. Going to do another performance of it tonight, then start another new one ... Finally feels like progress instead of treading water.
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Time for a quick #ProductionDiary Update! I'm basically back in #PreProduction, or more accurately in a hybrid preproduction/writing phase. Set up another jam last night and it was really flowing, sounded great. Going to do another performance of it tonight, then start another new one ... Finally feels like progress instead of treading water.
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I casually mention it in the blog post, but I am officially in #PreProduction for my next album. Expect some sound design related posts for a few weeks, then some jam stuff for a while after that.
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During the #Production phase this got a few #pads from the #KawaiK4r and a selection of #samples, from my #vinyl sampling in #PreProduction; some #Morphagene bits I had floating around; and a few horror movie samples to pull it together.
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But despite that, I knew I would be able to make enough material to do an album around this concept, and I started combing through notebooks for title ideas and running them through the Night Cafe's Stable Diffusion model and started planning the schedule for the album. I started #PreProduction officially like three or four days later I want to say.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#MusicProduction #Workflow #HomeRecording #HowItsMade #MyAlbum
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I did have two more quasi #InstrumentDays. One day with a couple of #Morphagene patches that absolutely pushed two tracks over the finish line almost single handedly, and a #SamplingDay where I finally went through one side of the #SamplingTape I made in #PreProduction and added #samples to multiple tracks. Those samples were the finishing touch for at least one of those tracks and it was nice to know the effort had been worth it.
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Back to my #PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary! After extensive coverage of #PreProduction, it's time to delve into the actual #writing and #recording of the #album. If you need to catch up on the previous posts before we get started, use the hashtags "PsychedelicGhostStories" and "ProductionDiary" together -- those are all part of this series. And hey, here's the album in question. #Listen along!
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories
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Okay, back from lunch ready to get going on this #ProductionDiary for #PsychedelicGhostStories . However, contrary to what I said before lunch, I want to stay in #PreProduction for now -- specifically, it's time to get into the #writing process, and the approach I used. Not going to lie, I am a touch concerned this is going to be #controversial because my writing and #inspiration process made *heavy* use of the dreaded... #AIArt *GASP*
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During all this, I was also working on charting out the #thematic and #musical elements, but I am going to go into that in a different post. It's definitely part of the #PreProduction but it's tied much more closely to the #writing and #composition than the #production, so I'd like to keep it separate for people who are only interested in one or the other. And also because they are separate in my mind.
#HowItsMade #MusicProduction #PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #MakingMusic
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Good afternoon! Let's pick up the #ProductionDiary for #PsychedelicGhostStories, shall we? Yesterday I went through most of the #PreProduction #planning; today we'll finish up PreProduction and move into the #recording process. For reference here's yesterday's thread, if you need to catch up: https://ravenation.club/@etherdiver/109826186359392195
And here's the album if you want to listen along as you read: https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories
#HowItsMade #MusicProduction #EtherDiver #HomeRecording #MakingMusic #MyAlbum #Workflow
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Well, this is now a very long thread so it seems like a good place to leave it for the night. I will start a new thread tomorrow (or very soon) with the same #PsychedelicGhostStories and #ProductionDiary tags. I'll wrap up #PreProduction and get into the #recording of the album.
In the meantime, here's the album in question, for reference:
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories
#HomeRecording #MakingMusic #MyAlbum #Workflow #HowItsMade #MusicProduction
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Starting from the top: This is an #MPC album. I am committed to the DAWless thing -- though the MPCs are more like a DAW in a Box, really -- and wanted to reaffirm that commitment and focus my brain on the possibilities of the machine, so any time I wasn't sure I wanted to do something a non-MPC way, I did it the MPC Way. Ultimately I decided to mix and master entirely within my #MPCOne. The album you hear came out of the MPC that way.
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In terms of #TechnicalPhilosophy, I wrote down three #guidelines (I developed/realized/formalized two more later, once recording was in process; I'll talk about those as part of the recording process). Those were:
1) This is an #MPC album. We will write and assemble it in the MPC.
2) Record it by bit, layer by layer; writing is a process of accretion/sedimentary.
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Even the simplest thing, like "I'm going to use this tape recorder and this tape for the main recording process" ended up being clutch. I only had to make creative decisions, not technical ones, and the creative decisions were so shaped by my underlying #philosophy that I'd spelled out, they were often quite simple as well.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #ProductionPhilosophy #PreProduction
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One of the less obvious, most useful things I did in this phase was make a bunch of decisions about the process/direction of the album. These, along with the material I was using to generate and shape my ideas for writing (a whole separate thing I'll get into at some point), ended up #streamlining the process considerably.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
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I made a list of stuff that had to be done to make this work. From basic stuff like a plan to #update all my #firmware and clean my #tapeheads to working out #sample sets, #drum sound palettes, and #synth patches to writing out my #themes and #charting the #influences I wanted to incorporate. (I have PAGES of notes generated during this process. Would be good to get #feedback on how deep I should go here.)
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #PreProduction #Planning
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Also, my #mind like neat, clean sets and lining up with major events/calendar changes to work with, so it was easy to settle on three months of actual album work, with the remainder of September, two weeks officially though it was more like 19 days when I started, reserved for something I wanted to try out: a #PreProduction phase. Basically, time to get everything cleaned up, set up and ready to go to make the writing and recording process go smoothly.
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I've managed projects of up to a year before! But that seemed a bit excessive for an album. My two proper albums (meaning they were created together time wise with the intention of being an album) were both done for prior #RPMChallenge so they were done in 28 days. That was exhilarating and both times I think the results were excellent+ for the time constraints, but that some more time would be better.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #Planning #PreProduction #ProductionPhilosophy
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At that point I had a handful of tracks I had started and stalled out on on the #MPC, an ever evolving master story for my work and a small handful of musical/sonic ideas I wanted to pursue. First off, I wanted to take some more time on this album. Due to my #ADHD I can really only do things with a pretty serious #structure and hard #deadlines. Lucky for me, I can honor my own deadlines, but only with a constrained time span.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #Planning #PreProduction
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This album got its genesis in early September of 2022. I had been promoting my album #TalesOfEtherspace for a little over six months at that point and I was kind of over it. My 50th birthday was six months away, and realization of one's #mortality starts to become a companion of sorts. I knew it was time to make a #NewAlbum.
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-etherspace
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #PreProduction #Inspiration
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This album got its genesis in early September of 2022. I had been promoting my album #TalesOfEtherspace for a little over six months at that point and I was kind of over it. My 50th birthday was six months away, and realization of one's #mortality starts to become a companion of sorts. I knew it was time to make a #NewAlbum.
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-etherspace
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #PreProduction #Inspiration
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Producing an independent horror film on a low budget. Great script, REALLY great location. We're in pre-production. Suddenly, we have a number of fantastic - FANTASTIC - names from the acting world interested and suggesting it to their - again - great friends. Now it looks like our budget may have to change. Not sure if this is a good problem or not! #indiefilm #producer #preproduction #horrorfilm #horrormovie #indiefilmmaking #investment #filmfinance
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Producing an independent horror film on a low budget. Great script, REALLY great location. We're in pre-production. Suddenly, we have a number of fantastic - FANTASTIC - names from the acting world interested and suggesting it to their - again - great friends. Now it looks like our budget may have to change. Not sure if this is a good problem or not! #indiefilm #producer #preproduction #horrorfilm #horrormovie #indiefilmmaking #investment #filmfinance
