Recent content by DickMays

I was surprised to discover I was already a member of this group, as it has been so long since I networked. Spent six years making Hubcap, now on Prime! What is next?

Thunder Road. Won SXSW Grand Jury award. Great indie film.

Btw, the story behind that first trailer is interesting. We used a doctor's office and he became very enthusiastic about the movie. He as also a musician, and wrote a song for the movie, when he thought it was a comedic horror film. Well the music didn't fit the movie AT ALL. But we wanted to...

I don't know how to make contact outside this board. Do you have email? I'm dick.mays@gmail.com

Then I would love to run our distributor trailer by you for feedback when it is done! Thanks again for the advice!

Thank you for your feedback!

I read somewhere that you should have a distributor trailer, one that tells very accurately the story of the film, giving away plot points, etc. Not as a public trailer, but for movie insiders who want to know what the film is accurately, in as little time as possible. We are going to make one...

Well, I've seen trailers that tell the whole movie. We get pretty good feedback from the trailer, but we certainly don't tell you what you are going to see in the story.

It's actually not horror at all, but the trailer masquerades as a horror film. It is a dark comedy, with a bit of romance. We got the first trailer out quickly, and will have one or two others. The little snippet of a scene at the top is more indicative of the movie than the montage.

If the scenes don't fit, then don't submit.

Trailer:

We are still in post production, because I keep seeing things to improve. We also decided to make it Covid aware and BLM aware, and that necessitated adding some footage. The movie had a TWO YEARS LATER portion of the script, and as it turns out, we actually took two years to wrap the picture...

Thanks for the greetings. I made my first short film in 2005 and kept making 4 or 5 a year until I thought I was ready, but nothing really prepares you for that first feature. We got 80% in the can when a Hurricane threw a wrench in the production schedule and we needed to raise more money to...

Hi, I studied acting and film making to give myself something to do when I retired from the computer industry. Only my corporate career fell apart in my early fifties, and I didn't have the resources to make a film. When I had the money to make a film, I didn't have the time, and when I had...