I just uploaded the first trailer to the website: www.jamesarnett.com/aia/media.htm
It's around a 40mb download, so a highspeed internet connection is a must.
I've never cut a trailer before, especially overnight, so it's still a little rough on the technical internet aspects. I'll get back to that once I have another chance. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer!
EDIT**** Okay, I've got some of the rough edges ironed out and the download cut down to less than 30mb.
ugh, quicktime sucks.
youtube!!!
It's not Quicktime, it's our server. It hangs up sometimes when too many people are downloading the trailer at the same time, sorry.
If that happens to you, you can also find the trailer on TerrorFeed.com at: www.terrorfeed.com/index.php?id=thelastman-trailer
That should solve the problem.
Thanks for letting me know!
A Spanish language trailer is now online in addition to the English language version:
www.jamesarnett.com/aia/trailer-spanish.htm
James, if you need a mirror for the server, for future releases or what not, gimme a hollar.
Start your own fan site at www.aztekhosting.com.
Thank you, I appreciate that very much!
I'm back on the three hour per night sleep-cycle, helping my Producer Gabriele set up the screening marathon at the Tucson Fox Theater this coming Saturday night (23 February 2008), along with a dozen other films that are really awesome trailers, shorts and featurettes made here in Tucson by some very talented filmmakers, some are in English, some are in Spanish, and all unusually beautiful films.
At the same time, I worked around the clock to package and ship our deliverables to our first distributor. That's done, so audiences in Japan will be the first to see this film in home video! I'm not sure what title they will market it under, sometimes titles are changed, depending on the market. That's okay by me, I'm thrilled to see our movie sell in a market as cool and sophisticated as Japan.
But no rest until next Sunday... then 12 solid hours of zzzzzzzz
you know that mary shelley belonged to a futurist group that planned the future many years in advance along with aldous huxley h.g wells francis bacon and this piece by lord birkenhead which it may be of interest to you to look at
http://h1.ripway.com/vintagelucia/misc/img007.pdf
which brings me to this question
who commissioned you to make this film if i may ask?
That's interesting. I think all of those Victorian era writers must have been the intellectual rock stars of their time.
To answer your question, no one commissioned this film, it's as independent as it gets. We didn't have any investor at first, and that's the miraculous part. We started with just $1,200 in spare change and nothing else but a script. No camera, no lights, nothing. I do effects work for a living (without cameras) so I traded seven months of labor on another film to rent the camera, made the lights out of halogen work lights, built everything we needed, saved as much money as I could to survive a year away from work. I just started filming with what I had. But along the way, investors approached me because we filmed some pretty large scale scenes that were broadcast on the TV news. That was a big help raising money. Ultimately, we made a bigger movie than what was written in the script. We got everything done for less money than most short films cost but we paid in very intensive labor (seven months filming and six months of post, including VFX and audio). For the whole story with behind the scenes photos, it's all on the blog: http://blog.jamesarnett.com
It's selling now in home video but we've also been exhibiting it in theaters to raise money for charities that sponsor the arts in the community and charities that promote human tolerance, one of the main themes the movie illustrates.
Even though no one commissioned the movie, what it achieved locally to bring so many different people and entities together still blows my mind because the making of the movie embodied Mary Shelley's message in the book, just like in our movie.
Another reason why I love my job.