That's right - I'm preparing to film my next short: "Chatty Cathy Goes to Yoga". I am so excited about this project that I may wet myself. It's scary and exciting at the same time; I'm taking this very modest little short that I wrote almost a year ago and turning it into a short film for the web. "Chatty Cathy Goes to Yoga" (CCGY) is a more ambitious undertaking than my last short, Chugging Gone Wrong for many reasons: it's longer, I have to rent a yoga studio to shoot at, I'm using union actors so I have to go through the union, and it's also dearer to my heart. I'm lucky though, because I have some really dear friends helping me to produce it.
The funds I need to produce this short are modest, but I've decided to use Kickstarter to raise funds for my project. Kickstarter describes itself as, "a funding platform for creative projects". Basically, I set up a page for my project with a financial goal, and then offer various rewards if people donate. My goal is $250 (like I said, modest), but I'm hoping to raise more. The catch with Kickstarter is that if you don't meet your goal, you don't get the money and no one is charged. So I wanted to start with a small attainable number that I knew I could reach. If you visit the Kickstarter page you can take a look at all this information, and donate yourself.
It's hard for me to tell you everything about this short concisely, because I've been working on it for so long. It was born out of this blog, and my journey over these past two years, and my love of yoga. Making Chatty Cathy Goes to Yoga wouldn't be possible without you, Readers, and so I want to thank you. And I also want to give you the opportunity to be part of my process. If you can find just $5 to donate, it would make a world of difference to me, and then you can see for yourself what happens when your awkward heroine (me) ventures into the world of yoga.
In case you didn't get it above, here's the link to the Kickstarter page. Please check it out and share it:
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