We’re not for now, about £170 to go before the end of the year. And what an amazing year it has been, going through some of the past blog posts. It seems we have been on a fun and sometimes scary rollercoaster ride. To get to the point it has been fantastic and we couldn’t have done it without the help and support of the fanbase. We have seen the filming through, had clips and previews. Yet this is just a small part of the journey, we’re about half way there now. The edit is locked, the music is underway, and the sound is getting there and the CGI is being planned. Yet without you we couldn’t even be here without you, so a big thank you goes out to everyone who has helped, and always remember you are supporting independent film and creativity.

Yes there is still a journey left, once we have the post production underway, we need to start really digging into what festivals we can and need to enter. As we start looking around we will be looking out to fans to help research and promote at local festivals. We’re also hoping many of you can come to a festival, as we will keep a guest list for all those who have helped so you will get to see the film at a festival. Then as we have done each festival we can find independent cinemas for screenings, before we make Casimir Effect available for general release.

So in the New Year, we still have a fair amount to auction off, there is the soundtrack and the making of book. Also if we can get our head around any legal ramifications we may do pre orders on a limited run of the DVD, to be released after each countries premiere.

So for now let’s get that last £170 in the pot and move into the new year with big ambitions and the passion to carry them off.

Well the talk went resoundingly well; at least I hope it does as I’m writing this before everything starts so I can quickly get everything on-line including the much talked about Scene 15. I would like to thank Lynnette and the staff of Chicago TARDIS for giving me this opportunity to speak about this film. And I Bananas for taking notes so she can do a write up about everything. Keep your eyes peeled on Live Journal for a few posts.

At this time I hope my sore throat isn’t going to be an issue other than I may sound like Tom Waits, which on the whole isn’t a bad thing.

Anyway enough babbling you’re here to see the Scene 15, remember to hit the like button and tweet about this till your friends want to kill you.

Funding Update

Also remember that were close to our end of November target a few sales in the store and bids on eBay should help things along. At last check we were £96 short.

All things considered we have done well; we have the plan in place to get post production sorted quickly and on time. We have planned where the money needs to go and how much we need and when, the only sticking point is our producer has said that if we cannot reach these goals on time we will lose our post production team. Essentially shutting the production down indefinitely, because we can only really tap the people we have for these three months so we need to hit the ground running and move fast to get roughly £1250 a month for the next three months. I’ll be selling off everything left over from the film, also a lot of books and other stuff taking up space in our flat.

We will be ending the Casimir Effect Logo apparel at the end of October, the main reason is we have been have issues with screen printing and they are wanting us to put in bigger orders. So to this end were looking at bringing in embroidered apparel as we can order them one at a time, also we can offer a wider range of items.

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We all know there are ups and downs of filmmaking, most of this is cleverly hidden behind a veneer of PR and marketing. Problems are covered up, smiles stuck on and all the time there are people at the back getting no sleep trying to find solutions to problems, they never knew could happen. It has always been our aim to show you the highs and lows of film making.

With this were letting you know were going towards a low. The edit is nearly locked and were about to start post-production, though we have cheap good quality solutions to this there is a financial cost. Our aim has always to have the film finished by May 2011 so we can have it at Cannes of that year. However due to unexpected delays we are running about two months behind schedule. Luckily the schedule was built with two month slack. Now we have used up all our slack and any delays jeopardise Casimir Effect. If we miss the May 2011 window we have to sit on the film for another year (we don’t want that to happen), as Cannes has to be our world premiere. I don’t want to delay the release as everyone who has helped and donated so far wants to see the film. Now we have a rough teaser out there you can see that things are moving forward and that you can reinvest your faith in the project.

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I’m typing this in advance, so I hope the first half of the day at SWA3 has gone well. I just say it’s been fantastic and have done with it.

Anyway this is the official post that will give you the link to the much talked about and never appearing Casimir Effect Teaser. It’s been a while but this is hopefully going to give our supporters something to squee about. And in their Squeeing they will squee loudly enough so everyone knows about this. Unlike Time Life this Teaser won’t last forever it will be gone in seven days. To be replaced by the proper teaser trailer, I know many of you will want more, but at the moment the proper teaser is the one we want the world to know about and the one we will open up for you to download and share.  However this one should be the one to tell everyone to watch and push a great influx of people to take a look at what’s happening.

The scenes in this teaser haven’t had any post production work done to them. Which is the main reason for the limited window, and why were asking you to show this to your friends but please don’t copy try to stream or get a copy by other means just use the link below. The reason is this the unfinished scenes could be detrimental overall, but as a boost and something to keep you going until the real stuff hits, this is our gift to you even if it’s only for a limited time period.

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