$1499 raised on Indie GoGo Campaign

Well the fundraising campaign for our short film finished up yesterday and we successfully raised $1499USD.

This will cover the cost of Film Festival entrance fees, authoring DVD's, catering on set, with a little bit left over for props, location fees etc.

I would personally like to thank every single individual who contributed towards the making of this film. So many of my family/friends/acquaintances have shown that they believe in me and are willing to support in anyway they could. This experience has been very humbling.

If you contributed to our campaign you will be receiving an email shortly asking for certain details such as, What name you want in the credits? (correct spelling important!) and a timeline on how things will progress. We will also keep you up to date as the film goes into pre-production, casting, shooting and the festival circuit.

Thank you so very much for your support!

Honour Roll
John Grove
Norma Ross
Terri-Lea Phillips
Melanie Lindsay
Neil Lauder
Kelly Mounsey
Alison Cowan
Maya Wood
Rol Hirst
Catherine Rowan
Natala Crawley
Ryan Lindsay
Ryan Browning
Sharee Phillips
Annaliese Lindsay
Ben Lindsay
Matty Lindsay
Lucy Campbell
Jariah Gordon
Wendy Collins
Roz Kielly
Les Thomson
Noel Gordon
Adam Skinner
Marc Lindsay
Julia Cordie
Brett Stone
Eddie Uchekwo
Jeong Hyun Lee
Allan Georgee
Helen Brooks
Leigh Irons
Derek Jenkins
Brett O'Keeffe
The Cooper Family
(What an impressive list!!)


Sincerely

James Lindsay
Writer/Producer
Tight Spot Productions
soapshortfilm@gmail.com
@soapshortfilm (twitter)
www.facebook.com/soapshortfilm
http://www.mr-lindsay.blogspot.com/

Indie GoGo update/John Grove Fan Club

We are currently sitting on a healthy $742 raised on our Indie GoGo campaign after 2 weeks and although we are a long way from our 'dream' goal the money raised so far will go a long way towards covering the expensive film festival entry fees as well as authoring the DVD's needs to cover the pledges (13 sold so far) and the ones needed to enter said festivals.

We are truly humbled by the support we are receiving by friends/family and colleagues. Many see the passion Eddie (Madphat Productions) and I have to create an award winning quality short film and others are just plain generous.

We would like to give a shout out to our most generous contributor so far: John Grove

Not only has this vocal talent lent us his silky tones for the trailer voice over but he also dropped $100 of his own hard earned in the shared belief that we are onto something.

It was an extreme pleasure working with John and we would undoubtedly recommend him to ANYONE who was looking to have their product/concept enhanced by a voice over.

You can find John and examples of his work here:
http://www.voices.com/people/johngrove
http://www.bodalgo.com/voices/john-grove1
http://www.hawaiiactors.com/profile/John...
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001834122583&sk=info
http://twitter.com/#!/JohnGroveVoices

Thank you to all who have donated, helped spread the word or just given us an encouraging word!!! We appreciate it!

James Lindsay
Tight Spot Productions

Soap - Short Film raising $$ on Indie GoGo

The Short film SOAP which I co-wrote with Ryan Lindsay is now officially in pre-production and has launched a campaign for help raise money on Indie GoGo.

Tight Spot Productions and Madpat Productions are proud to announce that $640 has been raised in the first week. This is quite the achievement among Short Films on Indie GoGo.

We have already sold 11 pre-order DVD's which also includes a special thanks in the credits and on IMDB.

Don't Forget we have a week 2 sale on Perks

Our funding honour roll to date:

Brett O'Keeffe
Norma Ross
Alison Cowan
Melanie Lindsay
Maya Wood
Sue & Derek Jenkins
Kelly Mounsey
Leigh Irons
Helen Brooks
Neil Lauder
Allan Georgee
Jeong Hyun Lee

And our biggest contributor so far:

John Grove.

Yes the voice on our trailer is also generous with support.

It's not too late involved, check out the website here: http://www.indiegogo.com/Soap-Short-Film?a=307003

Keep in touch

Until then hail to the Special Suds Edition!

Indie GoGo fundraising hits $200 in the first 24 Hours

We are happy to announce that the fund raising campaign for Soap - Short Film found its feet in the first 24 hours.

We have been lucky enough to raise $200 so far and sell:

The Soap DVD x1 to Norma and Dave Ross
The Soap Special Suds Edition x 2 to Brett O'keeffe, Alison Cowan and Ben & Matty Lindsay
Special Thanks incl IMDB credits x 1 to Melanie Lindsay

Thank you all for your support and we're looking forward to a real celebration when we hit the magic $1000 mark.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Soap-Short-Film?a=307003

James Lindsay
Tight Spot Productions

Trailer and an Indie GoGo launch for Soap - Short Film

I am proud to announce that Eddie at Madphat Productions has completed the trailer (looks awesome) and it is available for viewing at:

Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/37661937


Youtube

And MOST importantly on our Indie GoGo campiagn home page

http://www.indiegogo.com/Soap-Short-Film?a=307003




Let us know what you think and if you have the spare change sitting around feel free to donate or spread the word (twitter/facebook etc).

Thanks also to our first funder Brett O'Keeffe!!!

James Lindsay
Tight Spot Productions

Indie GoGo Here We GoGo!!!

As mentioned in a previous blog "Soap - Short Film Announces an Announcer" we have the vocal stylings of none other than John Grove - voice over extraordinaire for our mini trailer for our Indie GoGo fundraising launch.

I have now added my Aussie "not so talented" voice and my director Eddie at Madphat Productions is in the middle of finalizing our intro video.+

To whet your appetite check out the Music video my man Eddie has whipped up and imagine what he is capable of with my quality script.

Check in soon and find the perk/package that suits you!!!

James Lindsay

Tight Spot Productions



Soap - Short Film Announces an Announcer!

As we draw closer to launching our campaign on http://www.indiegogo.com/ we are finalising perks and making sure the Pitch best represents us and shows what we are trying to achieve and how we are going to do.

Eddie and myself tossed up a few ideas on how we wanted to the introduction video to sound and look like and we both agreed that a quick introduction of us and our production companies would be followed by a short and sharp teaser trailer.

And where would a good trailer be without a kick ass voice over? Unwatched that's where!!!

So we are proud to announce that we have secured the whisky smooth dulcet tones of none other than -John Grove to be the narrator of our introduction video. We also hope to secure him for the official trailer.

John has used his audio talents for such world names as Dodge, Chrysler, Buick and hell check out his website at http://www.johngroveartist.com/ and if you are in need of a professional who will give you what you need you can find great examples at:

http://www.voices.com/people/johngrove
http://www.bodalgo.com/voices/john-grove1
http://www.hawaiiactors.com/profile/John...
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001834122583&sk=info
http://twitter.com/#!/JohnGroveVoices

So stay tuned for the announcement of the launch for Soap on Indie GoGo!!!

James Lindsay
Tight Spot Productions

Pre-Launch Readiness!

We are very close to launching a fundraising campaign on the Indie GoGo platform. Most of the bells and whistles are in place but I'm still tinkering on the best perks and how much they should be.

If you were going to donate money to a short film (and we hope you do wink wink;) what would entice you to part with your hard cash and how much would you part with?

Oh and here is Soap - Poster mkII.

Drop us some knowledge in the comments below.

Clean as a Whistle!

The Writers behind Soap - Short Film

Soap is a short film script we are hoping will become a short film. It was co-written by James Lindsay and Ryan Lindsay after Ryan had written a short story about a man afflicted with OCD who has to wash his hands every hour on the hour. It ended with the man standing in a queue at a bank and just before the hour is up the bank is held up.

Over beers, I (James) was intrigued by the story and thought it had good comedy and dramatic potential for a short script. I went home wrote a very quick 1st draft and quickly sent it on to Ryan for thoughts and ideas. I was originally going to write it alone but the quantity and quality of Ryan's notes made it evident that this was to become a joint venture. We back and forthed it for a few months and decided to send it out to producers.

I had previously been lucky enough to have a very talented Brisbane based production company, Lav Productions make one of my shorts. The Pessimist went on to screen at several national and international film festivals and even won 'Best Film' at the QNFA (Queensland New Filmmaker Awards) in 2009. Well I sent the script onto Lav and his team first but they had a fully booked slate and passed. I then sent it onto a couple of production companies around the country and again struck gold with a South Australian production company, Thunderstorm Productions headed by producer Matt Pearson. Soap even went as far as pre-production but fell through at the last minute and Soap was once again without a home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5NOT4Lj3Z8


Soap then sat on the shelves for a year while work, kids and other commitments took the forefront. Then one fateful day, or it might have been a night I was fiddling on Twitter and looking at different production companies and the logo for Madphat Productions caught my eye. I had a look at the website and was very impressed with the quality of work and took a chance and sent it through.

I'm a shocker when waiting for feedback so every hour spelled, Thanks but no thanks. Then about 3 days later Eddie replied with positive feedback and we eventually got the ball rolling to where we are now.

We are about to launch a fund raising effort on http://www.indiegogo.com/ so keep your eyes and ears to the grindstone!

See ya around!