As promised, here is an official update on the documentary as of 20/03/16
The rough cut of the documentary is almost done. This would not have been possible without the editing talents of Callum Macdonald who was able to pick up the project and run with it. Despite it being in all sorts of pieces when he came on board and myself being a skittery wreck, he was able to take what I had and work with me to turn it into a coherent, watchable story.
There's still a way to go, we need to make opening titles, closing credits, do a colour grade, a proper audio mix, sign off on the music and insert the historic photos and video as they came to us. We're going to try to get as much of that done as possible in the next week, but it's no easy task. It may be that we don't get everything perfect, but I can now confidently say we will be releasing the documentary in one form or another before the Ice Blacks begin their tournament in Mexico on April 9.
Anyone who donated their time to the project or money to the PledgeMe campaign will be able to view documentary for free and before the rest of the world. Everyone else will be able to view the documentary for a small fee and we hope you will all share the link far and wide.
The reason we'll be charging a small fee is two-fold, firstly because it would be nice to get back some of the money I've ploughed into this project and secondly because if we make it freely available, no television broadcaster will then agree to show it. We don't have a broadcaster lined up yet, but we are going to try and find one so we can reach as many people as possible.
Eventually the documentary will freely available to everyone through the NZ Film Archive and nzonscreen. We will also donate the film to the hockey hall of fame to accompany the NZ exhibition.
The NZIHL AGM was yesterday and at the end of the day we showed a portion of the film to those in attendance, I am mighty relieved to say it was well received. Public screenings may be organised in the future and you should look out for them as a way to support both our sponsors and the ice hockey community.
As for the rest of the AGM, I glad to say Slapshot Productions will once again be carrying the live streaming of the NZIHL season and there will be more announcements about that soon. I tabled a discussion document about forming an NZIHL second division and we discussed a number of marketing, merchandising and entertainment objectives for this season. It all sounds great.
It may just be time to get excited.
The rough cut of the documentary is almost done. This would not have been possible without the editing talents of Callum Macdonald who was able to pick up the project and run with it. Despite it being in all sorts of pieces when he came on board and myself being a skittery wreck, he was able to take what I had and work with me to turn it into a coherent, watchable story.
There's still a way to go, we need to make opening titles, closing credits, do a colour grade, a proper audio mix, sign off on the music and insert the historic photos and video as they came to us. We're going to try to get as much of that done as possible in the next week, but it's no easy task. It may be that we don't get everything perfect, but I can now confidently say we will be releasing the documentary in one form or another before the Ice Blacks begin their tournament in Mexico on April 9.
Anyone who donated their time to the project or money to the PledgeMe campaign will be able to view documentary for free and before the rest of the world. Everyone else will be able to view the documentary for a small fee and we hope you will all share the link far and wide.
The reason we'll be charging a small fee is two-fold, firstly because it would be nice to get back some of the money I've ploughed into this project and secondly because if we make it freely available, no television broadcaster will then agree to show it. We don't have a broadcaster lined up yet, but we are going to try and find one so we can reach as many people as possible.
Eventually the documentary will freely available to everyone through the NZ Film Archive and nzonscreen. We will also donate the film to the hockey hall of fame to accompany the NZ exhibition.
The NZIHL AGM was yesterday and at the end of the day we showed a portion of the film to those in attendance, I am mighty relieved to say it was well received. Public screenings may be organised in the future and you should look out for them as a way to support both our sponsors and the ice hockey community.
As for the rest of the AGM, I glad to say Slapshot Productions will once again be carrying the live streaming of the NZIHL season and there will be more announcements about that soon. I tabled a discussion document about forming an NZIHL second division and we discussed a number of marketing, merchandising and entertainment objectives for this season. It all sounds great.
It may just be time to get excited.
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