My new feature film

[Scotness]

Thanks Nigel - I dream of the day where things are done sensibly and easily from the get go -- oh and I have a budget too LOL!

The reason for everyone not seeing the film is it was a competition on freelancer.com and I didn't really have the means (or the desire) to give a copy of the whole film to all these people I'd never met - before it had even been released. So I sent a whole lot of images that I liked and let them choose. But yes it would have been good to send the whole film and given the designers complete freedom. Now I've got a good relationship with this designer I might do that in the future with other projects.

About HD - my computers just aren't up to editing in real time with HD - but the reconforming should be relatively automated -I just have to point the project file at the HD clips instead of the SD ones and it rebuilds it from there --> that's the theory anyway we'll see soon!!

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[Nigel]

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What I'm saying is that having the competition was a bad choice.

How was using a competition advantageous? How is not asking graphic designers directly to see their portfolio more of a hassle? It seems to me easier to do a couple of searches online find three or four designers. Grab a coffee with them and flip through their work or if you are to cheap for that just look at their portfolios online.

If you only had $190 then just let them know that upfront.

It's not that you make it a contest. It's that you didn't need to and by doing so not only tied your hands but came back with lower quality than you wanted.

Good Luck

[Scotness]

I didn't actually come back with lower quality than I wanted - I actually love the winning design. The point is I can't get out much from home owing to other committments and it was much easier to have the people come to me - I had about 40 designs from maybe 9 designers to choose from and all I had to do was give them about a dozen images to pick from and a few guidelines. Not to mention the fact I couldn't afford to use anyone in my own country - so I was able to use the exchange rate to my advantage by doing it through freelancer.com and hence all the designs came from overseas - another reason why I couldn't personally meet the designers. So it actually worked out well if you ask me.

The advantage in the competition is choice -- I had a lot of designs contributed for free - and I just had to pick my favourite, and pay for only that one. In the course of the competition I was able to critique and request changes to the designs as well, which I did.

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[Scotness]

I've just put the entire film on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz68TozjmgU

We haven't had any luck with distributors so at least it's out there for people to see and we've got the chance of some ad revenue (after a squillion views and clicks!)

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