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Would you like to see 'The Divine Comedy' adapted to film?
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KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009
I'm working with Yellow House on an independent full length live action film adaptation of Dante Alighieri’s 'The Divine Comedy'. We have never used kickstater or created any other crowd funding campaigns before, and I was wondering what you all think of our first attempt. I know SA has strong roots in the independent film community and I look forward to any ideas or suggestions on how to promote a successful kickstarter, or constructive criticisms of our kickstarter video itself. Also, feel free to ask any questions about the film here. I will answer those that I can, and do my best to find the answers to those that I cannot. If there are any artists who would be interested in contributing to the film during the production phase check out our website listed at the end of the video and fill out an application.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875798282/dante-the-motion-picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjfmj2Uvsog&t=29s
For some reason when I play the video above it jumps to the 29 second mark. Does this happen for everyone else? I'm not a video expert so I'm not sure if it is happening on my system only.

KING BONG fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Oct 17, 2014

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KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

WEEDLORD CHEETO posted:

i appreciate your artistic goals but to be honest i think this was a pretty lovely xBox game that would be best forgotten.

This was a lovely xbox game. One of the main reasons why we want to continue with this film is because of all the horrible adaptations. It surprised us that no studios have ever seriously attempted to bring the poem to film.

KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

Dead Precedents posted:

Question. Do I get to snort coke of that chick's rear end after banging her? Or is it before I do it?

If you donate, I will allow you to do whatever you want to her, I just don't want to know. She's so dedicated to this project she'd probably smile through the whole ordeal.

KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

Iggy Koopa posted:

if you send me money instead of the op i will spend it all on weed and i will smoke the weed live on the internet for you

If you send me weed instead of money I will smoke it live on the internet for YOU.


Sir John Feelgood posted:

How are you going to deal w/ the fact that the Inferno is entirely dante walking around hell having conversations with people you need lots of background info to understand?

That's a good question and one that came up at a lot of the early treatment, outlining, and script writing meetings. A lot of information is going to be conveyed through the dialogue between Dante and Virgil as he witnesses different scenarios unfold in front of him. We must remember that Dante is witnessing most of these events from aboard a boat. Though Dante doesn't speak to many of the characters in the rings we are carefully creating interaction between them in a way that keeps the audience attentive and entertained. Most of these scenes will involve historical characters that most of the audience will recognize, for those that don't we will carefully nudge them in the right direction without taking up too much time and boring them to death. For those that still don't understand it, we will keep them entertained and hope that one day they pick up a book.

KING BONG fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Oct 17, 2014

KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

Snapdrak posted:

This movie loogk like a poo poo

It probably will be, but we'll give the :effort: to polish that little turd up the best we can.

KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

gnarlyhotep posted:

long stretches of exposition is really the only hope you have of doing this unless you're doing narration

either way it's going to be real hard to keep an audience's interest

There will be narration, we are currently trying to decide on who should narrate. Dante, Virgil, or an unknown? Currently; we have 10 different treatments, outlines and scripts, and we are taking the best ideas from all of the different versions. One suggestion was to have both Dante, and Virgil narrate at different points in the film, but most of us felt it would be too confusing and muddle up the presentation. Another suggestion, was to have the narrations be in the voice of Dante Alighieri, the author, but we feel that it would take a lot of time to set that up in the film. I will say that for one of the scenes we will have real life body suspenders and self mutilators. We found a group of performers that are very eager to contribute.

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KING BONG
Aug 6, 2009

Al Borland posted:

Also lol @ doesn't understand how youtube works but wants to make movie.

I'm not making this film as in directing or writing, I'm doing sound design and helping out composing some of the score. All of us here are pretty attached to it. I mainly created this thread to get feedback on the Kickstarter itself.

Al Borland posted:

two of them are definite woulds.

OP is right though we were big supporters of Swap.avi in the independent film community.

Perhaps instead of dante's inferno if you did Dana's Lesbian Bordello. We could get something going.

Have someone dress up as a big frog that says "get in" or "get out" as a stretch goal.

Oh Godz, swap.avi. Would that happen to be the South American poop tutor video?


Hat Thoughts posted:

Good luck King Bong!

Thanks.

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