Well I don’t generally like to cross blog but sometimes it needs to be done I guess.
- Chapter 1 – Brad
On Valentine’s Day, I rather deliberately launched our first Chapter in a year long series of stories of the dumped. I’d come close to editing in a normal documentary style when its star “Brad” (not his real name) decided he no longer wished to be associated with the film. To say this caused stress and a sleepless night was an understatement. At first I was VERY angry about the whole ordeal but then instead of focusing on the anger I kept asking “what is the solution?” I know all too well that hidden in every bit of misfortune good fortune rests. I figure stuff always works out eventually and this too would be the case.
So I emailed Ziggy who’s done some of my previous SYBD Break Up Line animations and pretty much begged him to animate the story. This way Brad could remain anonymous and I would still be able to get the story out there.
Ziggy, the professional that he is, came through in less than forty-eight hours, bless him.
Here we are two days after launching the video and we’ve had around a hundred and twenty views. (I wish rather wish it were a thousand and twenty views, but a hundred and twenty isn’t too bad.
The feedback is good so far as well. My concern is that the valid, universal and often inspirational message may be lost in the lightness of delivery (via animation).
There are already a few other animations being created to launch over the coming months. The ones I am currently looking at were ones that didn’t make the film due to my incompetence at filming! (Or in one case because the person said they only wanted to do audio not video)
The stories are good and hopefully people find them compelling. There’s the fifty year old guy who’d logged on at the end of his 16-month rebound relationship. There’s the Texan gal who was dumped 1000 miles from home in the City By the Bay and there’s the young lad who was dumped by his first boyfriend.
Hope people enjoy them as we roll this out into a series.