The BitterSuite Kickstarter has ended

So. We did it. 

We’re making BitterSuite.

One-hundred and ninety-one people have made this possible – and raised an astonishing £11,448. We’re humbled by your generosity, your belief in us, and the love BitterSuite has received. We’re going to do everything we can to make the film live up to the love that has gone into funding it.

There’s nothing more to say other than ‘Thank-You’ – from now on we’ve gotta speak through our actions…

…which means actually making BitterSuite.  Something we’re scheduled to start doing on the 12th August - eek.

As of next week we’re going to give blog posting privileges to every single member of the cast & crew, so hopefully you’ll get an fully rounded view of the production as it unfolds – it should be an interesting, and pretty candid, look into the DOG BUTTON process.

(Oh, and if you haven’t already please ‘like’ us on Facebook, and‘follow’ us on Twitter! There’s always stuff going on…)

In other reward based news we’re going to be filming the ‘Toast Your Generosity’ video at 2am on Thursday morning, so look out for that on Thursday evening – we have 101 people to toast, so we’re going to do a shot of beer for every one of them. It ain’t gonna be pretty, but hopefully you’ll see the love in it! 

Also, we still have 63 Vines to make, so we’ll be making those over the next week – keep your eyes out for them on the DOG BUTTON Vine profile page. 

With that, we’ll sign off – running a Kickstarter has been one of the most rewarding things we have ever done, every single pledge has made our tiny hearts skip a beat, and every day has been full of tiny struggles and victories. 

Thank you all for making it worthwhile, and making BitterSuite happen. 

Sam & Jan 

Ps. Breaking from the lovey-dovey nature of the post though, we’ve gotta be honest – it was also absolutely exhausting running this campaign. We got this photo snapped just as we hit the end of the Kickstarter – as you can see we're full of beans.

Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day, well, X

So then. Day X.

Why "Day X", you ask? The answer is due to a few reasons... Most notably that I've been so busy teasing a Kickstarter capaign that I haven't had time to write about it!

Between that, trying to pre-produce a film, work a "normal" job and trying to get all the behind-the-scenes organisation done for the Kickstarter campaign... I'm exhausted!

(Picture was taken by Jan when we were trying to open a bank account for BitterSuite - it's all been a bit too much!)

Since my last post we've deceived we're having a party to on Kickstarter launch day to promote it, so we've arranged, booked and planned that - it's happening at The Jolly Butchers (the pub where I hold my "normal" job) and there's a Facebook event page ( https://www.facebook.com/events/424426501033773/ ) you should come!

We've also had two more rehersals, and designed future rehersals so they will serve a double purpose and also yield a web series, called BitterSuite moments - head over to the DOG BUTTON YouTube page and you'll see two of them there already. All of them should be, if the plan works, be chronological and lead up to the events of the film proper - it's a pretty ambitious plan, so let's hope it pays off!

There's actually been so much work for Jan and I to do recently, that we've had to devise a new scheduling system on our office wall to denote deadlines, and move jobs around to make sure we hit them - I'm including a photo of it here, so you can see the purposefully low-rent, uber stylish, working method we now have (hahahaha!)

In addition to this chart, we've also redesigned, and rewritten, our script outline wall chart as we approach our new draft - it's pretty in depth and big already!

So yeah, a load has been happening, and something had to give - namely, this blog... but hopefully this will change. 

As we get closer to production more people are being added to the team, and I'm hoping that more people will wrote more and more on this blog as we go on - being the sole writer sucks!

We're almost at the launch of the Kickstarter campaign (3 days!) so hopefully the tangible monetary scale of donations will push us to carry on - it feels like we're at the end of the race, but really we haven't even started!

Gotta get back to work now, speak soon,

Sam

Ps. Oh! One last thing - Jan and I have now said we're making a BitterSuite cake for the launch day party... Let's hope there as good as these ones at the shop opposite The Jolly Butchers, or we'll look awful in comparison! THE CHALLENGE IS ON!