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Lie Assignment

I have tried a variety of lottery systems but I will share the most recent one. The most recent one was trying to raise 140,000 to make an independent film. I shot a proof of concept, pitched to hundreds of people and when I say hundreds that isn’t an exaggeration. I have pitched everyone from prostitutes to doctors and lawyers. I even hired an assistant from Fivver to pitch to people for me. I tried to build a crowdfunding team and interviewed over 100 people to be on my team, hired a crowdfunding coach etc…

I did have one investor who wanted to invest 10,000 dollars in my film. He told me today he is no longer interested, he is going to invest in Italian Ice. I understand it has been close to three years now. I understand him wanting to move on. That burned. I re did the budget of my film and got it down to 37,500 and then I thought I will make it as an animated film for 10,000. The only problem is I don’t have 10,000 and don’t want to go into more debt than I already am.

My biggest takeaway

My idea was kind of right and the reason I aimed high because I was on oxygen for three months and I thought I was going to die from Covid. I thought I am getting older and I thought I may only get one shot to make a movie, and I read that if you don’t spend at least 140,000 your film will be amateurish. People told me that I could and should make it for cheaper because they did. I thought $37,500 is as low as I could go for this script and that it wouldn’t be hard to raise but for me it has been.

I had fun making the proof of concept and made some creative connections and I like the idea of taking some of my horror stories and making animated films of those stories for 10,000 - 20,000.

But I don’t have that. What I do have is 1,000. I have some woods behind my house and a creepy story idea to film in those woods. I have three iPhones. I have an iPhone 8 and an iPhone 5 and an IPhone 16 Pro max. Those are some things I have to start and make to make my 1,000 film.

Now I just have to write the script and get started. I will use my proof of concept as a short film and the script I wrote that I have been trying to raise money for, can be my third or fourth film.

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