Premiere Day!

Greetings, one and all! All of our work these last few weeks, nay, years, came to fruition this last Friday, with the premiere showing of The Nine Isles: Chaos Crown. 

There was a good turnout, filling the country church that had so graciously hosted us. It was really good to see everyone again, and incredibly gratifying to hear and see the audience reactions to the movie. When you've worked on a project for so long, you forget what it was that made you decide it was worth pouring in all that time and effort in the first place. Hearing the laughter at the humorous banter and character reactions, the muttered "Ooo.." at plot twists, along with the collective sympathetic wince every time a character got clubbed, told us that we'd done well. The best review we received was an audience member calling it "thoroughly entertaining," which means we did our job, because the greatest sin a piece of media can commit is to be boring. 

Now... the digital release. Those who weren't there for the premiere will have a chance to see the movie once we get all of the necessary materials together and upload the film to the online store. What takes our rural internet 45 minutes to download could take us the better part of a day to upload, so we're aiming for a time when the internet usage will be lower. 
On top of all that, we're also working on finishing the designs for our Nine Isles merch. However, audience reactions to certain characters and lines have compelled us to design some new items centered around them. More details will be coming in the near future... Provided the internet cooperates. 

Lastly, the heartwarming reunion of multiple generations of the stunt team at the premiere was capped off with one of our veterans visiting for this week's stunt meet. The theme of the practice was a heroic last stand, so we threw him back into the deep end, and let the muscle memory take it from there.

Everyone worked really well together, bouncing ideas off each other, trying different thing out, until they had a suitably dramatic fight to the end, along with a creative final takedown. 

Well, that's about all for this week. Until next time!