Much progress on the film has been made since June when I returned to the US from Peru.
Editing has been going extremely well even though the release has been delayed until th Spring of 2014. The delay has worked in the film's favor. In prior blog posts I talked about two key people who have joined the Path of the Sun Team. They are Dennis McKenna PhD a leading authority on medicinal plants and Shawn Hocking a visionary artist who will be providing visual content for the section on the visionary experience of an ayahuasca journey.
Additionally, I have been granted a license from Noise Industries for FX Factory an incredible set of special effects plugins and creative tools for editing. This package will come in handy to give the film some pizzaz.
At this point in time there is a rough draft completed of part I of the film and the rough draft for part II will be completed this week. As a reminder, part I focuses on the mystical practices of the Q'ero and part II focuses on the use of ayahuasca as a healing medicine. I am also putting together a screening of the film for a number of industry profesionals - these are people who work in in both film and post production.
The next steps to be completed to get the film in shape for festivals are the following:
- Create two animations - one explainging the Andean Cosmovision and the other describing the visionary experience of an ayahuasca journey.
- Create and introduction for the film, a middle transitionary section and a conclusion.
- Create tiles for the introduction and credits section
- Color correct the film.
- Work on the audio to make it sound great.
- Finnish the film by producing a variety of output files.
I am estimating that this process will be complete by the end of April.
Now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel I can focus some time on delivering the promised Kickstarter rewards. I sincerely apologize for the lengthy delay so I am setting forth the following rewards distribution schedule:
- By the end of February 2014 I will deliver the following rewards:
- $5 Pledge: A digital photo of a Peruvian Shaman with a message of wisdom.
- $10 Pledge: 12 stunning digital screen-savers of Peruvian shaman and the beautiful environments in which they live.
- $15 Pledge: a "Digital Download .mp3 CD" featuring the songs of the mountain shaman and Icaros of the curanderos of the Amazon that were recorded while filming the documentary.
All other pledge rewards including photography and hard copies of the film will be deliverd by the end of May 2014 after the film is released.
You may contact me personally regarding your reward at sgershberg (at) gmail (dot) com
Best,
Seti Gershberg
Filmmaker
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