Showing posts with label go-kustom films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label go-kustom films. Show all posts
Monday, June 3, 2013
Go-Girl Pin-Up Trading Cards Series 3 Shipping Today
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
New Rat Rod Rockers! Logo
Finally got around to updating the Rat Rod Rockers! logo to a still from the Drag Race Scene in the film. for the last year, I have been using a still image of Chris Darland's '33 Plymouth that was actually from Hot Rod Girls Save The World. I just hadn't taken the time to update it. Figured with all the new pre-press the film has been getting, I better get of my arse! I also used the new logo to make some merch (coffee mugs, shirts and small posters ) for our RRR! pages on CafePress.com. Yesterday I completed the Opening Credit sequence for Rat Rod Rockers! Looks tight! Also realized I gotta pull a little bass from the guitar track of the title theme. It booms (not in a good way) in spots.
Monday, July 5, 2010
July 4th and Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Completed Scene 8 of Rat Rod Rockers! yesterday- just in time to head out for some fireworks in Edmonds, WA. Took the family out and sat by the waterfront waiting for the show. It seemed a bit scaled back this year. I hear many fireworks shows were suffering cutbacks, like everything is nowadays. Moneys drying up.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Signed Stills Series
Added some new stills for the Signed Stills Series I am doing for Rat Rod Rockers! which feature various actors signed scene stills from the film. We will sell these at car shows, online and at events.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Finished up Scene 39 of Rat Rod Rockers! It was a short one with only one cut. Instead of shelving it as I progressed through the films scenes breaking apart takes, I just went ahead and edited it.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Been culling through the Scene Lists of Rat Rod Rockers! breaking takes apart on each scenes timeline. A bit time consuming but necessary. I also just picked up (or should I say down loaded a copy of) Evan Pazners Vintage Breaks Drum Loop Disc (and yes I bought it- no pirating here). Great breaks for uptempo big beat and hip hop styles. I used a 145 bpm loop to start a music bed for Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 50 in which two rat rod gang members chase the story's heroine into the woods.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Pirates Download Over 84,000 Copies Of Hot Rod Girls Save The World (Press Release)
Pirates Force Go-Kustom Films to Pursue New Release Strategies for Second Feature Film "Rat Rod Rockers!"
Go-Kustom Films loses big money with over 84,000 illegal downloads of their last film Hot Rod Girls Save the World.
Seattle, WA - It’s late at night and a young man is finishing up his last minute pirate activities. He sees an underground film on a peer to peer site that he has heard about in a psychobilly/horror pop webzine. Its called Hot Rod Girls Save The World. He squints- the file is not too big and he has plenty of disc space. He quickly klicks his mouse and slides back in his chair- the damage is done. Not to him of course, but to one of the many fledgling indie-film companies around the world. In this scenario it is Go-Kustom Films.
Hot Rod Girls Save The World was made on a miniscule budget of less than $3,000. D.A. Sebasstian, the films writer and director, was able to keep costs down by doing most of the work himself. Everything from the soundtrack, set design and construction, special effects, audio mixing, make-up design and editing were all done by Sebasstian. This took him nearly five years of hard work to get from the films inception to it’s completion. Sebasstian also runs Go-Kustom Rekords & Films and sometimes thinks more like a film company owner, than a film maker.
Without shopping the film to a distributor, Hot Rod Girls Save The World was immediately pressed to DVD and made available on Amazon, IndieFlix, Go-Kustom and various other websites. Says Sebasstian, “Looking back- going directly to DVD may have not been the best answer for this films release. We did some initial private screenings, four wall events and then a few festivals, but we really worried about our limited advertising budget and initial DVD sales, so we pressed Hot Rod Girls right away.”
Nowadays making a film available on DVD, also means making the film available to potential pirates. With modern ripping software, almost anyone can de-encrypt a DVD, rip it and make the file available on Peer To Peer sites for anyone else to gobble up. Initially Sebasstian didn’t think this was such an issue until a random internet search of the films title proved otherwise. Recently a Google Search of Hot Rod Girls Save the World (on 04/19/10) came up with the following-
Download Cave 1,107 downloads
Download Archive 26,471 downloads
Torrent2Crazy 21,024 downloads
DARelease 36,066 downloads
That is a whopping 84,668 downloads from just four sites in one year! At the standard $4.00 per download that's an estimated loss of $338,672 in potential revenue! Now- granted many who download the film for free would never buy this or any other film and how accurate are those website counters anyway? But taking into account that this was not an in-depth web search by any means, 84,668 downloads is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Says Sebasstian, “While it is flattering to see Hot Rod Girls Save The World is an underground hit- it is impossible to sustain a film company if people just flat out refuse to pay to watch it. This is really effecting the small guys like us- disproportionately so when compared to the bigger Hollywood Company titles. I mean we’ve sold over 1,300 Hot Rod Girls DVDs and had hundreds of paid downloads but come on- this is crazy!” By comparison the most popular single scene from Hot Rod Girls Save The World (Scene 77) currently has just 26,286 views on YouTube (as of 04/19/10).
This whole experience has led Go-Kustom Films to reevaluate their films release strategies. Says Sebasstian, “Our next film, Rat Rod Rockers! comes out summer 2010 and we have already decided not to go straight to DVD. We also don’t want any full length versions of the DVD being sent out as promotion or to film festivals. We just don’t want to risk it. We are also talking about touring Rat Rod Rockers! around the U.S. with some of the Actors and Hot Rods from the film in tow. Mostly playing it at Car Shows, small theaters, drive-ins and music events. We have also looked into possible stream only websites and doing a payed mobile device release that would make the film available for viewing, but not look good on a bigger screen (i.e. DVD or Blu-Ray quality). We are still in the planning stages for the initial release of Rat Rod Rockers! Eventually though, it will have to be on DVD. We even thought about hiring a Gypsy Witch to curse all who pirate the new film...just kidding. ”
Go-Kustom is worried about loosing early sales of the film without a physical DVD available, but has some creative ideas to overcome this. One possibility is selling Director Signed cases at shows and screenings minus the actual DVD. Each case would be given a tracking number with the purchasers mailing information. When the DVD of Rat Rod Rockers! becomes available, Go-Kustom would then mail out the DVDs directly to the case holders. Although this sounds elaborate, it could generate sales and interest in the film without the film suffering from initial release pirate buzz kill.
About pirates and the anguish they cause the DIY film maker, Sebasstian says, “Please Don’t Pirate- Buy Indie!”
For more information about Go-Kustom and it’s music and film releases-
please visit www.go-kustom.com or contact gokustom@gmail.com
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Go-Kustom Films loses big money with over 84,000 illegal downloads of their last film Hot Rod Girls Save the World.
Seattle, WA - It’s late at night and a young man is finishing up his last minute pirate activities. He sees an underground film on a peer to peer site that he has heard about in a psychobilly/horror pop webzine. Its called Hot Rod Girls Save The World. He squints- the file is not too big and he has plenty of disc space. He quickly klicks his mouse and slides back in his chair- the damage is done. Not to him of course, but to one of the many fledgling indie-film companies around the world. In this scenario it is Go-Kustom Films.
Hot Rod Girls Save The World was made on a miniscule budget of less than $3,000. D.A. Sebasstian, the films writer and director, was able to keep costs down by doing most of the work himself. Everything from the soundtrack, set design and construction, special effects, audio mixing, make-up design and editing were all done by Sebasstian. This took him nearly five years of hard work to get from the films inception to it’s completion. Sebasstian also runs Go-Kustom Rekords & Films and sometimes thinks more like a film company owner, than a film maker.
Without shopping the film to a distributor, Hot Rod Girls Save The World was immediately pressed to DVD and made available on Amazon, IndieFlix, Go-Kustom and various other websites. Says Sebasstian, “Looking back- going directly to DVD may have not been the best answer for this films release. We did some initial private screenings, four wall events and then a few festivals, but we really worried about our limited advertising budget and initial DVD sales, so we pressed Hot Rod Girls right away.”
Nowadays making a film available on DVD, also means making the film available to potential pirates. With modern ripping software, almost anyone can de-encrypt a DVD, rip it and make the file available on Peer To Peer sites for anyone else to gobble up. Initially Sebasstian didn’t think this was such an issue until a random internet search of the films title proved otherwise. Recently a Google Search of Hot Rod Girls Save the World (on 04/19/10) came up with the following-
Download Cave 1,107 downloads
Download Archive 26,471 downloads
Torrent2Crazy 21,024 downloads
DARelease 36,066 downloads
That is a whopping 84,668 downloads from just four sites in one year! At the standard $4.00 per download that's an estimated loss of $338,672 in potential revenue! Now- granted many who download the film for free would never buy this or any other film and how accurate are those website counters anyway? But taking into account that this was not an in-depth web search by any means, 84,668 downloads is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Says Sebasstian, “While it is flattering to see Hot Rod Girls Save The World is an underground hit- it is impossible to sustain a film company if people just flat out refuse to pay to watch it. This is really effecting the small guys like us- disproportionately so when compared to the bigger Hollywood Company titles. I mean we’ve sold over 1,300 Hot Rod Girls DVDs and had hundreds of paid downloads but come on- this is crazy!” By comparison the most popular single scene from Hot Rod Girls Save The World (Scene 77) currently has just 26,286 views on YouTube (as of 04/19/10).
This whole experience has led Go-Kustom Films to reevaluate their films release strategies. Says Sebasstian, “Our next film, Rat Rod Rockers! comes out summer 2010 and we have already decided not to go straight to DVD. We also don’t want any full length versions of the DVD being sent out as promotion or to film festivals. We just don’t want to risk it. We are also talking about touring Rat Rod Rockers! around the U.S. with some of the Actors and Hot Rods from the film in tow. Mostly playing it at Car Shows, small theaters, drive-ins and music events. We have also looked into possible stream only websites and doing a payed mobile device release that would make the film available for viewing, but not look good on a bigger screen (i.e. DVD or Blu-Ray quality). We are still in the planning stages for the initial release of Rat Rod Rockers! Eventually though, it will have to be on DVD. We even thought about hiring a Gypsy Witch to curse all who pirate the new film...just kidding. ”
Go-Kustom is worried about loosing early sales of the film without a physical DVD available, but has some creative ideas to overcome this. One possibility is selling Director Signed cases at shows and screenings minus the actual DVD. Each case would be given a tracking number with the purchasers mailing information. When the DVD of Rat Rod Rockers! becomes available, Go-Kustom would then mail out the DVDs directly to the case holders. Although this sounds elaborate, it could generate sales and interest in the film without the film suffering from initial release pirate buzz kill.
About pirates and the anguish they cause the DIY film maker, Sebasstian says, “Please Don’t Pirate- Buy Indie!”
For more information about Go-Kustom and it’s music and film releases-
please visit www.go-kustom.com or contact gokustom@gmail.com
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 34
Spent most of the day working on our Arts School Campus- cleaning the parking lots and moving beauty bark around the front campus flower beds. This place is massive and more than enough for a small crew of grounds keepers.
Later I started digging into Scene 34. A pretty straight forward scene, not a whole lot of cuts are gonna be needed.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 11
Finished Scene 11 for Rat Rod Rockers!. In the scene Harold Milldue (Aeon Black) is suffering writers block. At first I was gonna go straight with the cuts and then I noticed that for half the shots I had left the camera on a tripod, which is great for showing jumps in time (i.e. character jump cuts, but the room stays as is). So I went with a disjointed "writer blocked" Harold Milldue bumbling around the room with his tape recorder. Works well I think. I am starting to love this film!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Got a little editing done on Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 7 today as well as updated the Hot Rod Monsters Film Festival applications for film submissions. My seasonal allergies are still slowing me down. Taking Claritin which makes it feel like a bad head cold. Arggghhh. Also did some monthly taxes for our Arts School. The fun never ends.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Finally- with all other projects completed or set aside- I am jumping into the Rat Rod Rockers! editing. I had already laid out all scenes with correct footage, so now its snip snip cut cut time. Lets see how long it will take me to get a finished movie from this! Also today was my Birthday. 46 years old people! Feels good tho. My wife and kids got me Reason 4 music software (upgrade from Reason 3), some summer shorts and a set of Dremel attachments for my Dremel Tool. Score!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
3/4ths Of The Milldue Family
This is from last Saturdays wrap party. Aren't they a happy family?
Today buckets of rain in Seattle. Love the rain. Got some trailer DVDs for Rat Rod Rockers! ready to send out as promo.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Rat Rod Rockers! Filming Dec. 7
Aeon Black who plays Harold Milldue in Rat Rod Rockers! came by the studio today to do a few quick pick-up shots. The remaining scenes to shoot are just a handful now. We need to shoot the second ending sequence and little ambient shots and that is all.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Rat Rod Rockers! Pick-Up Shots
Cameron Black came over to do a few quick close-ups for Rat Rod Rockers! Only two scenes left to shoot!
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