Posts tagged jade empire
Posts tagged jade empire
Why is this such a big deal? Why should anyone care about this movie? What is so special about “Sins of the Dragon” that anyone should donate their hard earned dollars to it?
Well, this is the movie. Let me phrase that again. This is THE movie. The movie we have been talking about since the four of us started making movies together. Every time we would hang out, or not pay attention in Ninjutsu, or be working on another movie, THIS was the movie we were always talking about.
This movie is so important to us. We’ve been tossing around ideas for this film for at least 4 years now. We would spend warm summer nights sitting on Kale’s back porch, writing down cool scenes or bits of dialogue on ratty notebook pages. And slowly it started to come together.
The first few drafts were atrocious. They were epic, on a scale we could never do with such a small cast and crew. So we cut it down. And then we cut it down some more. Until finally we came up with something manageable. Something possible for us to shoot.
And we couldn’t be more proud of it.
Most of our other movies were goofy, stupid, and pretty crude. They lacked anything resembling a plot or character development. But now we have that stuff. And we are so excited about it. We want to tell everyone! We want to show the world what we can do.
Because we’ve had time to master the basics. All the technical stuff. But we have never had an audience, because our films were too silly and vulgar.
But now we have something that we are really proud of. Something that we want to show anyone and everyone who will listen.
Because when it comes down to it, our favorite part of making movies is watching other people watch our movies. And it was something we were missing out on for a while.
But then we premiered FANG in our basement. We have this hilarious picture sitting on all our dressers, of our first premiere; 20 people, all dressed in suits and dresses, crammed into 3 mismatched couches and a handful of random chairs in some dingy basement, watching our movie on this little 30 inch TV screen.
But we wouldn’t have traded that for the world. Me and Kale stood at the back of the crowd (there weren’t even enough seats, so we just stood by the steps) and watched our friends. Would they laugh at the right spots? Gasp when they were supposed to?
That’s kind of when it all meshed together for us. After the movie was over, we had a great party, and everyone was cracking up, telling us their favorite parts of the movie.
We couldn’t wait to do another one. But we couldn’t have another basement premiere. So far, every movie had been a step forward for us.
Now it was time to step forward again. We needed a bigger premiere. We needed more people to see our movie. But we wanted to be seen as more legitimate, not as crude and vulgar. We wanted to make a movie that everyone could see, and it had to be EPIC.
And we had the perfect movie. We’d been talking about it for years. “The kung fu movie.” That’s what we called it all that time. But now we’re ready to show the world.
We’ve done all we can. We set up our own production company (special thanks to my dad for helping us with all the legal paperwork). We got a bank account. We did everything we could.
But now we need help. We don’t have enough of our own money to fund this movie, so we are reaching out to you guys. We don’t intend to come off as selfish or greedy. We don’t want to be annoying, constantly harassing people for money.
We just want people to see our movie. And we need your help to make that movie. So seriously, if you have even $5 that you could donate, it would be a HUGE help to us and we would be really grateful.
Every contribution helps bring our movie closer to a reality! And remember: with Kickstarter, if we don’t raise ALL the money, we get NOTHING!!! No funds will be withdrawn from your account, no money is transferred.
Thanks for all your support!! We really appreciate it!
-Joey, Kale, Shannon, and Aiden
so yeah, this is our new production company. we’re really proud of this and if you guys want to be a part of something awesome, you should donate. we will send you a free DVD even if you only donate a single dollar and leave a message saying “i saw this on tumblr”
Jade Empire, Bioware
Day 2: Your favourite game
This is my absolute favourite game ever. I’ve played it a million times and its probably one of the first few games I played on an XBox which I absolutely fell in love with. It started my love for rpg games <3 Now thinking about it makes me want to play again, except its sitting back home in Malaysia..end of the year, time to bring back fond memories :)
