Success Stories: AUG'27 Subconscious goes to the distributors!

Georgia, did this happen through Stage 32?

Congrats Georgia, I hope RB asks you to write a start to finish Story on the Blog here. How you put it together; what appears to be being your own producer with the help of a second producer. Whom may have been the one to hire the casting director, etc. Kickstarter or word of mouth? on the Exec producer funding etc.

Congrats Georgia - are there any Stage 32 collaborations from this? Any of your cast or crew or production team?

I love a good success story, Georgia. Congratulations to you and your team.

Hi Julie - I think a few of the crew /cast are on Stage 32.

That is so cool. Can you explain to me what exactly this means? Thanks! "all in of $70K with a valuation of $500K based on overall work involved"

I think she meant that the actual cost was $70k, whereas to have paid for services would've bumped that figure up to $500,000. Congratulations, Georgia - I love these kind of mystery-action-thrillers and would like to see this when it becomes available.

Congrats. Well done.

congratulations Georgia, cast & crew, i just watched the trailer, http://subconsciousfilm.com/trailers/ great build in tension. i will definitely see it when it's released. IMDB listing: no release date and you need to get your trailer and photos on IMDB. well done :)

Congrats, Georgia.

@C.D. correct. we spent $70k all in to write, produce, shoot , post and deliver Subconscious. I did all the editing, color, CGI, most of the VFX, I got a couple sound guys who are friends to help with the Sound. My friend and I mixed the film at a dubstage that we knew the owner of so we got a 1/2 price deal... just using available resources to increase production value. We did the same thing in production. Got a bunch of friends who do WW II reenacting to get their friends (around 100 people ) for extras to create a busy WW II ship yard, Army fort, and a U-boat crew. We're donating a share of the profits to Battleship Cove in return for an amazing reduction in location cost for use of a real Battleship, Destroyer and the USS Lionfish - an actual WW II diesel Submarine. We got a lot of people to work for a very small wage up front and some backend. YES... my project is making a decent backend since we shot it for so little. Its all about writing a script that the distributors are looking for utilizing the available low cost resources that we had on hand. I'm ex NAVY and did Sub comm and Anti-Sub warfare so I already had a lot of military connections. As a last note. I sent out 6 surface water shots for bid to small CGI teams in NYC.. they all came back with numbers for just 6 shots at around $35,000. There are probably 50 CGI and 400 VFX shots in the movie.. so do the math. :)

We deliver Tuesday to Lions Gate and other distributors.

Congratulations on the production value achieved for the cash budget and nice of you to clarify for the masses that the in-kind / equity value was $500K.. I am explaining this constantly to people who do not quite understand what really goes into a quality indie. I also notice no DP credit... did you shoot it as well or is that " one of those things we don;t talk about " ? lastly, in your budget range, did you not consider at least one name actor ? I am always interested in casting decisions more than anything ;)

Four friends shot it together. we ran between 3 and 7 cameras on any given take.

our cast had 5 professional actors and approx 95 non-actor actors.... Of the 5 pros, 2 have been in various TV shows NCIS, The Glades, SOA, etc... Normally the trick in low / no budget is keeping the actors local as much as possible. n our case we spent more on flights/hotels than the actual cost for the actors. One from the UK, Mike Beckingham (Simon Peggs' Bro ), one from Miami, Tom Stedham (The Glades, Ardennes Fury, Hazmat), TIm Abell from LA (We were Soldiers, NCIS, SOA, etc ) and two local NY'ers Aleisha Force ( Chase) and Dominick Mancino ( Life on Mars, The familia, etc) . The rest we're re-enactor and friends helping fill out the extras. Thankfully all the principle actors are personal friends.

I just watched the trailer. Impressive production values! It must have taken an incredible amount of dedication and connections to pull that off. Thanks for sharing your success story.

Georgia, thanks for your further sharing. I am very very impressed.

i'm looking forward to completing the real trailer as soon as we finish shipping the basic deliverables.

The narrators voice is great. Trailer looks good.

Congrats, Georgia! I went to the site to watch the trailer, but... somehow the framing is off, at least for me. All of the action appears to happen just off frame right. Not sure why. I'm on a Mac, if that helps.

Thank you so much for explaining. That looks unbelievable. That gives me and I'm sure everyone else some hope!!!

@Shaun yeah.. we've heard that on a couple of versions of a browser... you can also see it at http://tayloranddodge.com/screeners/subconscious.html

Looks great, Georgia. Even at the valuation, that's quite an accomplishment. What software did you use for VFX and CG? Best of luck with it!

We did all the CGI / VFX with a mix of Cinema4D, After Effects, various plugins, and Premier with additional plugins.

Wow - congrats! Impressive and inspirational. I look forward to seeing it.