October 30th newsletter wrote:Shipping Physical Copies - DVD and Blu-ray
Digitally at least the film and the 2.5 hours of special features as you know are finished. However much has happened over the last couple of weeks since our last newsletter, the main one being the creation of the subtitles has thrown everything back by 2 weeks. The film is much longer than the subtitlers originally thought compounded by their own build up to Christmas workload. In addition to this the company handling the pressing of the discs now need a clear 10 working days from taking delivery of the glass masters to produce ready to ship copies. We are right at this moment in the heart of the Christmas product run so games, films, TV shows are all being pressed and our film cannot be given any special treatment and turned around any faster. We are now being told it will be the last week of November before we take supply of all our DVD’s and Blu-rays. Once we get them we just ship them out to you directly.
Take it from us we have no reason to sit on physical copies, when we get them they go out it’s as simple as that. This is an extremely complex and long project and I’m sure if you’ve learnt one thing about us by now, we may not be the fastest but we will get the job done and to the very best quality it can be. And by that we mean the very best possible picture and audio encoding, huge care taken with menu design, packaging etc so that every deliverable element of this project received by you is the best we can make it. The subtitling company are pretty much regarded as the best in the world, the same goes for our authoring and pressing companies. We have done our part in giving them the assets, there really isn’t anything more we can do other than let these professionals get on with what they do best. What we can do before this first batch of DVDs and Blu-rays comes in is make sure that everyone at least has access to a digital link allowing for both streaming and downloading of an HD link.
Perks
We are working on fulfilling perks right now, as we said before we are writing individually to people expecting perks, we won’t just ship blindly and we have decided to start shipping prior to getting physical copies so please bear with us. Even though we uploaded digital copies in October and it may seem our work is done, there has been a huge amount of work getting the assets sorted for the physical copies, we’re still putting in the same hours we were putting in during the main editing phase so we can’t work any harder or faster, but the idea of getting our spare room back is a big incentive and it is a big relief to feel we are coming to the end of this project. We will get there and honour all our obligations on every single perk and we wish we could go faster but as we’ve probably said too many times now, it really is just the two of us.
The Future
A lot of you have been asking us what we plan to do next. Well obviously we have a responsibility to get the final bits of this current project finished, but we do have a huge amount of footage leftover covering so many stories and extra sequences. The thing for us is whatever we do it needs to be of the same quality as the main film. This takes time to make but we do have the footage and a lot of the required material ready to work on right now.
Two things we are considering, firstly doing a second bundle of extras as there is still loads of game makings of and extras we can edit together. Secondly we have thought about doing a 1 hour documentary on the 16-bit era, kind of as an extended addition to the main film, perhaps even shooting a couple of extra interviews, so please let us know your thoughts as we can keep creating new content if people support us by buying what we produce, if people want to see more of what we can do then we’ll make more it's as simple as that. Therefore it would be wonderful if you like the film then please tell others to just go to
http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com where they can buy it as we really do want to go on and make more content for all of you!
If you have purchased a digital copy of the film and would like the 2.5 hours of special edition content you can buy this by clicking here
https://frombedroomstobillions.vhx.tv/b ... 2436815053
And Finally...
Thank you, all of you for being with us every step of the way on this journey, a little longer than I think we all expected, but with a now completed film and phyiscial copies and perks soon to ship I think we can all feel very proud of what we have achieved together.
