£20,000 for a Presskit?

Ladies and gentleness, I present to thee, our presskit (the link is for a screen version of the presskit. For a print quality version, please use this link)

Designed by the one and only Hawzers, this is our secret weapon in the war against lack of finances. As our movie is built around a message of peace we have reasoned that our best bet at making our budget would be by targeting charities and organizations that work to promote pacifist solutions and reconciliation through dialogue.

The presskit itself is designed to shed some light on the nature of the project, our histories, our planned expenditure, contact info- but mainly it's to make it clear that we are professionals and not just a bunch of students let loose with a film camera.

Ideally the kit will be printed and accompanied by the poster and sent out to said organizations in the hopes of gleaning some kind of help. Our hope is that people will jump on board simply because it is an issue they're concerned with.

There were many thoughts about what to put in there (a short history of the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians? Our bios? Does it really matter who we are? The actual script? Storyboards?) and in the end we settled on going for the stuff that would be convincing and necessary. I'm still not sure about five pages detailing the history of the crew but the idea is that if someone is actually interested, then this information becomes necessary.

What is still missing from this pack is the animatic. A scene that exemplifies the mood of the film was storyboarded and then taken out of the pack because of an animatic I saw by a friend of mine. Storyboards make the film clearer to people that you are working with but by turning the same boards into an animated clip the whole thing comes to life with a faint smell of celluloid. This is what you need for fundraising; elements that draw a clear line between a dog-eared, courier-fonted script and a finished film.

But I'll speak about the animatic when it's done.