Clowning Around All Over The Place!

As our Indiegogo funding campaign has gone along, we’ve had tremendous support from all sorts of quarters, and it’s so nice that so many people are taking an interest in what we’re doing. The feedback on our work and planning has been edifying and encouraging and I am so proud of everything our team has done so far. I’m really working with an amazing bunch of people.

We’ve got some awesome support too, in terms of people interested in helping us talk to a wider audience about what it is we’ve been doing and share our experience, and we’ve there’s a couple of fun things happening that are putting word of the project out into new areas too and just generally making things more exciting and interesting.

Firstly our Poster Design Competition is out there and we’ve got an amazing team of judges from the film & design world, and a number of participants already. We're uploading them all to our facebook page so that all the entries can be seen and 'liked' by the public before the judging takes place. Do head over to the page and take a look!

Only time will tell who the winner will be but it’s really exciting to see what people will do with the images we give them. As visual people, we’re thrilled by the prospect!

Secondly, musician Alex Bloor, who makes Parody songs, is going to record one for Clowning Around! How awesome is that! I've seen some of the lyrics already and I can imagine we'll all be singing the "Clowning Around" song before long!

Thirdly, the very awesome Karen Worden and David Brannin who run the Film Courage radio show and website hosting indie film interviews that inspire, invited Damien and myself to write an article for their site which you can find here and that shares what we’ve learned about preparing a project that people want to support.

Next, the fantastic guys at Media Pulp recorded a podcast interview, again with Damien and myself to talk about our work on Clowning Around and how the project came about. They are just charming to speak to. Really nice guys and it was an absolute pleasure to talk to them. The show goes out on iTunes and can also be found on their website. Do check in and give it a listen.

Then this week the chaps over at Livestream show, Film Snobbery Live, chose Clowning Around as their Indiegogo campaign of the week, praised our work so far on the project, the way we'd set out our page information and suggested people backed us. That was nice of them!

And last, but by no means least, the fantastic people at MUBI Garage have published a production diary I wrote about Producing.

With these cool things all happening alongside our regular Indiegogo updates, social network interactions, checking in with cast & crew, updating the blog, video diaries, website updates etc. etc. etc. it feels like there are clowns all over the shop! And that makes me very happy! And with just 7 days to go, quite busy!

We certainly hope you find something to make you happy too! *:o)