The Surrounding Game: A Documentary in Progress

[Jedo]

Hey everyone. I've been a part of L19 for awhile, but for those of you who don't know me, I'm David Glekel, a college student from New York. I'm making this post to announce something that I think is really exciting. I'm part of a team that's making something called the Surrounding Game. This is the go documentary that my friends and I have been dreaming of making for some time now. With the American pro system launching this year, all the pieces fell into place to finally put this plan into action. We've been covering the pro qualifiers all year, and will be at the Congress. Afterwards, the plan is to go to China and Korea for the ing cup as well as to check out insei schools. But we need your help! We have the team and we have the passion, but we're short on funds. You can find our trailer and much more information about our project, as well as the opportunity to support it, here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/175 ... ntary-film.

This has been a dream of ours for a long time, and we hope this could be our big chance to finally get go the exposure and attention it deserves. Please help!

[gogameguru]

Hey Jedo, great idea.

The short film you guys made for your Kickstarter page is really good and the timing does seem to be right. I hope you guys are successful.

We've just donated some money and sent you email asking if you'd like to write something about this for Go Game Guru. Please think about it and let me know.

[jts]

Wow, great progress so far.

[Phelan]

I have been unable to view the short movie on the Kickstarter page. I've recently been having problems with other flash videos, so I'll have to find the problem and fix it eventually, but could you upload it to youtube? I seem to be able to watch youtube videos when othher flash videos fail.

Edit: Hmm, nevermind, seems it was a problem with flashblock. I think I've fixed it now.

[Josh Hatch]

I think this is great. I hope this will be successful.

[Javaness2]

It looks pretty well made to me, although I didn't quite get why you need $15,000. Maybe I missed a link though.
Hope it works out

[hyperpape]

They probably have quite a bit of travel expenses, if they're filming onsite in China and Korea, they mention film equipment, there are some promotional things related to the kickstarter project (which kickstarter expects you to do, afaik), though I guess those aren't that expensive. Then there are promotional expenses once the film is made.

If I set my mind to it, I'm sure I could guess their budget and make them prove to me that it's really $15k, but I also doubt they're mentioning every conceivable expense. It's a cool project, it has some obvious expenses, and that's enough for me to put some money down.

[Jedo]

They probably have quite a bit of travel expenses, if they're filming onsite in China and Korea, they mention film equipment, there are some promotional things related to the kickstarter project (which kickstarter expects you to do, afaik), though I guess those aren't that expensive. Then there are promotional expenses once the film is made.

If I set my mind to it, I'm sure I could guess their budget and make them prove to me that it's really $15k, but I also doubt they're mentioning every conceivable expense. It's a cool project, it has some obvious expenses, and that's enough for me to put some money down.

Yeah, filming on site in China and Korea is a big part of our budget. Even aside from that though, buying all the film equipment we'd need (we've been renting so far) is expensive, as is hiring a cinematographer as we plan to.

[shapenaji]

Looks great, can't wait to see more!

[Jedo]

Thanks for you help everyone, we just broke 10k! We're almost to our goal, just a little more push. We still have a lot of great prizes offered, so check it out!

[aokun]

I fell for the "Associate Producer" credit on IMDB. That won't get me a Bacon number though; they'd have to interview me for that. Dearly like to have a Bacon number, a Shusaku number and an Erdos number. Only got the middle one so far.

[hyperpape]

Is there someone with a verified Erdos-Bacon-Shusaku number? John Nash might be a candidate.

[Solomon]

This looks amazing and I look forward to its development! Backed and sharing.

[daniel_the_smith]

I chipped in a bit

[Jedo]

Hey everyone, we just hit our first goal today! Thanks so much for all your help. We just updated our page with a new video featuring yours truly; we've set our goal a little higher and are offering new prizes! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/175 ... film/posts