Self-Aggrandizement: helping hand

Ed. Note: Due to insanity at work over the last few days, I'm committing the faux pas of all faux pas: cross-posting between my own two blogs. This appears also on Cyan's site, but as it's a plea for outside opinion, including opinion outside the film industry, I thought I'd re-post it here.

About two years back, I coined Newman's First Law of Filmblogging, which got written about a bit on a number of film-centric blogs. The law, essentially, states that a filmmaker or production company's ability to blog at a given point is inversely proportional to how interesting things are at that point. In other words, when progress is cranking ahead, there's almost never time to actually sit down and write about it.

That's been the case recently, with several Cyan and Long Tail projects all surging ahead at once. I'm blogging briefly, however, to ask for your help with one of them:

The DVD of LT's first film, This is Not a Film, is nearly ready to head off to the duplicator; before it does, however, I'd really love some outside opinion on the box design and the trailer. In short, I want to know whether you'd be likely to rent, buy, or head out to the theater to watch the film based on either of them. So, if you'd be willing to volunteer criticism, shoot me an email and I'll send both your way. The first ten to pitch in will score a free copy of the finalized DVD.

helping hand Filed Wednesday, February 23 2005.

helping hand
Filed Wednesday, February 23 2005.