Closed Captions

We have a few projects that are living on external hard drives, now that the digital revolution is here we can now distribute them online. Our project called "It's Complicated" is being prepped for distribution on Amazon. As I began the upload process, Amazon required closed captioning. Dangitt!! "How do I do that" I asked myself. I was kind of pissed. I mean you work for years on projects and they have all of these rules. So I found a resource on youtube of a guy creating closed captions inside of premiere pro, the same software I used to edit this project. Here is a link if anyone is interested. CLOSED CAPTIONS

So my wife goes to work looking at the movie and typing the dialogue on her computer and I'm in the editing program on my computer copying the dialogue and making sure it matches with the actual movie. 

This may take us a few days to finish. Also, There is a possibility that I have to get new keyart re-created to match the specifications required by Amazon. $$$

I have to hit up my old graphic designer like "hey guy, remember that movie poster you created for me 2-3 years ago? Well yeah I need you to find those files and change the layout and dimensions for Amazon. Can you do that today?"

So these are the things you have to do when you are the distributor of the movie. Everything costs money or you have to do it yourself and hopefully pay yourself later. The goal is to have two of our movies online in the marketplace as we go to AFM this year. 

We should be documenting this...

The Grind Over Matter Films crew has a weekly meeting on Tuesdays at 7:30. We talk about life, personal goals, and film goals. We have a core group of people, but periodically we invite a random filmmaker friend to our mastermind. This has been going on since 2013 and is the key principle to how we get projects done, both personally and professionally. Yesterday I  invited a filmmaker friend by the name of Jamie. At the end of the meeting he was blown away about how we work together. He was like "dude this is a legitimate team!" I never really gave it much thought  but he is correct, we all take what we do seriously and we fight to get our projects complete. Thank you guys for being awesome. Also, it occurred to me. We should be documenting this!

We meet at different locations but currently we are at random BoomerJacks in the DFW metroplex.

Salvage

So about 2 months ago from today one of our hard drives with our movie footage gave me this error.

My heart sank because I knew the hard drive had failed. The heads wouldn't spin and there was a dent on the top of the case I hadn't noticed until the message appeared.  "Hmmm, this is going be expensive" I thought to myself.

Fast forward to today. Producer Casey G. found an investor to cover the cost of the damaged hard drive and we are officially back to making a movie!

Here are the pics below. 

Outside the building in Dallas Texas.

The old drive was cheap and I should have known better. Look at it, all pitiful. Shame on you Toshiba for making this abomination!

I grabbed this beauty up the road at the micro-center in Dallas. Check out the specs here.

Protect your hard drive son.