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Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 15:48:45
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| Whatever hapened to the Viva Amiga documentary film, which raised nearly $30,000 on Kickstart over 1 year ago? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vivaamiga/viva-amiga-the-documentary-film
A quick glance at their Kickstarter page & their web site doesn't show any obvious recent news.
Are they posting status updates anywhere? Did they have a timetable & are they sticking to it? Or were they over-optimistic about costs, and fail to produce what they planned? Have they just take the money and run?
$30,000 is a lot of money (although it pales in comparison to the $350,000 being asked for by Cinemaware for a Wings remake). Last edited by ChrisH on 20-Aug-2012 at 03:49 PM.
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 15:52:19
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 16:01:23
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 16:23:51
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Updates from July also the Facebook page.
I really look forward to getting my hands on it
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 16:32:31
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Me too, I think it will be an amazing success - from what I have seen of the updates from Zach. _________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 16:35:26
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Initially the film was hoped to be released this year but it has now been scheduled for release early in 2013...
You can keep up to date with how things are progressing on the VIVA AMIGA Facebook page if you didn't donate/ pre order to the fund. Zach also sends out email updates to people whom donated to the project and right now the movie is in the cutting room/ early production stages...
https://www.facebook.com/viva.amiga.7
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 20:51:43
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maybe zach could drive up to sacramento and give us an update at amiwest this year?
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 21:20:19
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| It be great if we could arrange a Amiga show in uk for a special screening of this film once it's complete.
Actually just did a quick check and it can be as cheap as £200 to get a odeon cinema screen hired, I think that would be awesome. Last edited by amigang on 20-Aug-2012 at 09:31 PM.
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 21:42:23
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Aug-2012 23:39:47
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eliyahu wrote: @thread
maybe zach could drive up to sacramento and give us an update at amiwest this year?
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Just what I was thinking. If he can't make it to the show, maybe someone can contact him and obtain a 10 to 15 minute movie trailer of it to show during the AmiWest Show?
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 21-Aug-2012 1:39:30
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| eliyahu wrote: Quote:
maybe zach could drive up to sacramento... |
Well, that would be quite a drive, because he'd have to go 3,000 miles.
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Sep-2013 17:32:15
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Initially the film was hoped to be released this year but it has now been scheduled for release early in 2013 |
We could use a new estimated date of release, no?
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Sep-2013 21:43:11
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This looks like a neverending project. I suspect that as the Kickstarter money has been spent, motivation / time is getting thin on the ground. |
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Sep-2013 21:56:08
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This looks like a neverending project. I suspect that as the Kickstarter money has been spent, motivation / time is getting thin on the ground. |
As Kickstarter backer, I am pleased as long as RJ Michael is working on it. There has been an July update, and its too early to say its dead.
at the end of 2012, his comment was it will take a lot more of 2013 to complete it
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 20-Sep-2013 22:07:41
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This looks like a neverending project. I suspect that as the Kickstarter money has been spent, motivation / time is getting thin on the ground. |
Given that an Amiga film is rather unique, I always believed the release would surely be in conjunction with some event or product release. In fact, it would be completely silly to NOT take advantage of such a coupling of endeavors, since the opportunity won't arise again.
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 21-Sep-2013 6:27:03
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Indeed they should coordinate this with the companies behind todays amiga hard and software. Who knows if they could use it in a marketing plan or something.
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 21-Sep-2013 7:24:38
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| I would be very surprised if this project ends up in the recycle bin, they've done some great interviews at least so they say. I think the focus now is on getting the film cut and pasted together in a professional way. As someone said they only get one shot at this so the result better be professional if they want to earn more money from the project. _________________ AmigaOS or MorphOS on x86 would sell orders of magnitude more than the current, hardware-intensive solutions. And they'd go faster.-- D.Haynie |
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 21-Sep-2013 21:48:44
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 22-Sep-2013 1:27:00
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Heh, that's what the producers said for Starship Exeter: Tressaurian Intersection!
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Re: Viva Amiga documentary film - whatever happened to it? Posted on 22-Sep-2013 11:22:54
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I have to say I'm a little surprise its taken this long, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen it looks like they have more and enough material to make some kind of documentary out of it so I just wish we got a bit more of update and idea of where the film is currently at.
This reminds me what ever happened to Commodore the Amiga story book it looks like that failed to be published or something. Shame. ----actually just did a quick search online and the Book Depository is reporting November 30th 2013, so maybe it still might see the light of day. http://www.bookdepository.com/Commodore%3A-Amiga-Years-Brian-Bagnall/9780973864991?b=-3&t=-26#Bibliographicdata-26 Last edited by amigang on 22-Sep-2013 at 11:34 AM. Last edited by amigang on 22-Sep-2013 at 11:33 AM.
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