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ThePactProject is a crowdsourced and crowdfunded film. Join us and make a horror movie. Contribute to the story. Download and remix the film. Support the project with a donation. Read more

Photobooth

Sat, 05/02/2009 - 14:35 — Henrik

My daughter Hedvig just loves Photobooth in my macbook. Apparently so do I. Apart from that I really haven't got much to say except that it's an early summer and I just planted some strawberries in the garden. How's that for horror? Well actually a garden is kind of like making a pact with a demon. You think it will make your life better so you say yes to something you do not fully comprehend and then when you realize it's really demanding, it starts to eat your soul. Everywhere you look there's unattended garden eyeballing you until you crack and start killing people. "it wasn't me, my garden made me do it" Yes my fellow horrorbuffs, that's my life in a nutshell.

Nice week coming up, I'm working on the animated storyboards for the launch of the site and the shooting of interviews with me and Anders (exec prod). Great fun.

Giving birth

Tue, 04/28/2009 - 14:48 — Henrik

Had a few beers and talked about the upcoming change in site-design. Very nice, everybody had good points and we learned alot. Irl definitely still has some advantages. The drumset is mine. Yeah I rock. And take pictures. I'm not in the picture. Pic 1 from left Linus L, Albin, Kami, Linus K, Artur and Carl-Johan. Pic 2 Linus L, Albin, Per, Linus K, Kami, Carl-Johan, Jerry and Anders. They are all watching one of the new conceptposters.

Posterheads

I'm in love with a Indie Film Icon

Sun, 04/26/2009 - 17:26 — Henrik

Went to a masterclass (a class of masters? A master teaching masters? Or a master teaching a class? The latter I think) with Christine Vachon of Killer Films. As you know she is the genius producer behind Boy's dont cry, Happiness and Im not there to mention just a few. Apart from being just delightful and bright as hell she was also very open about her work in a way that made me feel a kind of kinship. She seems to like transparency in moviemaking as much as we do! She doesn't seem to be that into horror as we are but with her pedigree, who the hell cares? I loved her. So much so that I got all awestruck and didn't talk to her at all at lunch or in breaks. Stupid. On my way over I had a lovely fantasy about making a small videoblog with her commenting on our project. I have to grow some balls to make this blog worthwhile to read for you guys. Anyway, the question about new ways of producing and distributing movies came up and as always she was on top of things. Killer Films are involved with a crowdsourcing-collegue of ours called Massify. It's a really cool initiative of finding a fun and provocative idea for a shortfilm through their site and then having it produced by Killer Films. If you want to pitch your idea the deadline is may 14.

Well it's sunday and I've got to fix dinner. Brita had kind of a heartburn, I wonder if I still can persuade her to open that bottle of red I'm so longing for:)

Talk to you soon, Happy horror. Henrik

Handle for Jerry

Wed, 04/22/2009 - 14:38 — EvilSpin

I need a handle for this project. I would like for it to have these three ingredients:

public realtions, the art of spin
horror, God/Satan, demons
crowdsourcing, crowdfunding

Any ideas?

Some traffic

Wed, 04/22/2009 - 14:29 — EvilSpin

I was about to compile a mail Kami, but what the hell. Here goes.

As for the final blog, I would like: Read more

Good deed of the day

Wed, 04/22/2009 - 14:01 — EvilSpin

Had to save the project this morning. There were some thoughts on having a closed members area on the (soon to be launched) The Pact Project site. Also, the project blog were to be placed inside this area...

Now that just fucks up my strategy (not that it such a strategy exists just yet, but still). Read more

Why me?

Wed, 04/22/2009 - 01:18 — EvilSpin

Now. I've got a title in this project; Communications Director.

Corny, you say? Well, my darling Clarice. When all this is said and done, you will stand corrected. I tell you it's my job to make sure this flick gets its fair share of web traffic, you see. Now that might not sound so hard. But imagine deliver on this without an actual movie to do PR around. Read more

Short and clear or long and confusing

Thu, 04/16/2009 - 21:26 — Henrik

Next week we're supposed to shoot some instructional videos where we explain the point of the project, our vision and what you can expect to find here. I am struggling with the words, it's hard being that short and precise. I thought I'd let off some steam by writing a long and confusing blog about how hard it is to write short and clear statements. But I just changed my mind, I'll just throw the first draft in y'alls faces and see what you think. Come on now guys, comment and improve! Love H

This is meant to be the THE "What is this" VIDEO

HENRIK Read more

Add to this

Wed, 04/15/2009 - 11:36 — Spiral Architect

Quite importantly the site now features a social bookmarking function. There's been a range of services to choose from: Add this, Add to any, Share this, Tell a friend and other permutations. Anyway, the benefits they all have in common is to allow users to spread the word on content that we put up, one-to-one or one-to-many using their own social networks and whatever means of communication are in their comfort zone.