I wanted the documentary about
The Sunday Alternative to be of a higher
quality than the rest of my filming projects that are going to be made freely
available. Apart from the free screenings and publicity fanfare I was hoping to
use the film as something of an advert for the show. Anyone who has listened to
the show will wonder why it languishes on a small local radio station (despite
the worldwide audience), the same is true of a lot of the shows on Trent Sound
but we all have the freedom to play what we want.
The crowd funding campaign on
Indiegogo hasn’t raised a penny so far, and I am managing to resist all the
offers that appear in my email inbox offering me help in raising awareness as I
imagine they will be less than legit. By a weird twist though, contributions to
my PayPal account (the donate button is above this blog) have risen slightly,
so maybe people prefer the anonymity of the donate button although I don’t know
if Indiegogo give me the names of contributors. If you can’t spare the money
then a share on Facebook or a retweet on the better site is contribution enough
for me as it at least raises awareness of the campaign. I’ve been tweeting it
from my own account and the Twitter accounts of The Sunday
Alternative and Trent Sound, it has been getting a fair amount of
retweets but they aren’t converting to donations. The film isn’t due out until
September so I may have to sideline it a bit (it’s mostly written for my part)
and get some other things out of the way first. If this campaign doesn’t take
off at all I may leave it until later in the year and bring the target amount
down, and lessen the price of the rewards and see what happens then.
Please don’t forget that in
return for a small contribution you get free videos and podcasts, you also get
365 blogs a year.
Once again I am full of cold
and dealing with it in my usual way, Lemsip (other powered cold cure drinks are
available, unless Lemsip want to sponsor me), tablets, layers of clothing to
help sweat it out. I had no recollection of recording my American show this
evening and woke up having fallen asleep on the sofa in a blind panic as I
couldn’t remember doing it so had to check my sent emails to make sure.
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