Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day 6

13 DAYS UNTIL KICKSTARTER LAUNCH

After the release of all of the posters for BitterSuite, today is the first day of the "teasing" campaign that didn't have a image to go along with it; instead Jan and I had planned to release an overview and synopsis.... but it looked pretty damn boring, and didn't really work so well on Twitter!

Instead, I decided to take one of the major pieces of the project's visual identity (the wall from the first 'sofa' poster) and put the text we'd written over that. I think it looks a-ok.

As a bit of an experiment I made the image a 9x16 ratio, so that if people looked at it on their phone it would fill the frame entirely when held in portrait mode. I'll be interested to see what people make of it.

One thing I didn't expect, was that close friends already seem to be eager to help - the final poster, and this synopsis, were both shared without any prompting by us. I reckon this is a good sign as we approach the campaign... but I really want us to hit the magic 30% mark within the first 48 hours of our launch - that means, £3,300 so we're all gonna have to push hard to bring the sofa home!

That's all for today, smell ya later,

Sam

Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day 5

Today is the final poster release, and it's the group poster of all three of our leads; Sarah, Myles and Cordelia.

The final Bittersuite poster

We imagine that either this poster, or the more motif 'sofa' poster, will be the face of BitterSuite throughout production and release - of course, we could be completely off base, and find that the project has another identity after release, but that'll be another blog post!

Today we also publicly announced the launch of the Kickstarter campaign, and our goal - on Tuesday the 17th of June we'll launch our campaign for £11,000.

I'm getting pretty obsessed with tracking other feature film campaigns on Kicktraq, and preparing for the campaign is already shredding my nerves; I can't think what I'll be like when we actually launch!

That's all for today,

(a worried... but excited) Sam

Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day 4

Today's tease is the final character poster release - Sarah.

The fact the 'tagline' ends on the word "sofa" was no accident!

Sarah is going to be played by Sarah Barker, who also featured in 'room for two', along with Myles - if you've seen 'room for two' I'm sure it'll come as no surprise.

Here's all three together, just so you can see all three of our leads together...

Awwww bless!

With that done, we're all done for today!

See you tomorrow sofa-surfers!

Sam

Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day 3

As promised here's day two of our character posters for BitterSuite - the is Myles.

When the posters are put in 'order' Myles is staring at Cordelia on yesterday's poster

Jan and I have worked with Myles before on 'room for two', you can see the trailer for it below, and the full film, for free, when our Kickstarter page is officially launched.

(I have to dash to work at my other job so I can't wrote more here today - sorry!)

Sam

Teasing a Kickstarter campaign... Day 3

Today we're showing off our individual character poster for BitterSuite.

We've designed all three so that they work on their own, but also work as the basic plot setup of the film when viewed as a triptych - you would not believe the amount of arguments Jan and I got into about wording of these!

The concept took weeks to come together (a downside of being a democracy of two!) but when we struck on the idea of having the characters lying on the grass with broken bits of sofa around them we knew we had come onto a winner of an idea.

I'm especially happy with the way the 'sofa' motif is understated and literally a background to the issues the characters are dealing with - just as they will be in BitterSuite.

Gotta say though, I think they work together pretty nicely - without any more preamble... meet Cordelia!

Note the "Bit-ter-Suite" stamp - we're all about branding at DOG BUTTON!

Cordelia really stuck out in the auditions, and had a wonderful ability in improvisations to speak harsh truths to other characters without coming across as harsh - she's naturally incredibly charming, and is pretty disarming because of it.

In person, she's a trooper and we're positive that she's going to make BitterSuite a fun and affecting viewing experience - I love her expression in the poster, it's like Mona Lisa's smile; what's she thinking? Is she feeling remorse for the actions in the text? Or does she not give a fuck because there's something else going on? SO MANY QUESTIONS! (Hopefully they'll be answered when you see the final film though...)

Another character reveal tomorrow, but that's your lot for now!

Sam