Our actors arrived ready to go, our make-up team from face2face set up a make shift green room.  Lights, camera, action!  It was on.  Despite the clunkiness of first day jitters, techincal curve balls, we got ‘er done, or ‘in the can’ to use proper movie parlance.  —bob humphrey

All systems are a go…we are ready for lift off!!!

Actor Joe Yoder is Frank in Jeff's World

My name is Joe Yoder and I am playing Frank in the production of “Jeff’s World.” I could not be more excited and grateful to be cast as this wonderful character in this excellent movie. I totally fell in love with Frank. He is the kind of guy I aspire to be. It seems like all the characters in this movie have great things to offer their community and fellow humans. Even though there are ups and downs, just like we all experience in day to day life, truth, goodness and the right thing to do prevail.

I was at first very apprehensive about being in this film due to the Christian nature of the plot. I soon found out, by reading the script that this is a character based movie in a Christian setting. You really get to know, love and identify with these people who are just like us, that just happen to be based in a Church setting. It was fascinating to me to find out lots of the inner workings of a successful Church. I was raised in the United Methodist Church and had no idea all of these things went on behind the scenes. It has given me a new respect for the way churches are operated.

I simply love the writer, director and all of the producers. This is a high-class professional, feature length “Hollywood” movie produced completely with local cast and crew. Once completed, I see it winning film festivals and getting a wide distribution with great success. Seriously, it is just that good! I guarantee you will love it as much as I do.

Anything you can personally do to support this project will help tremendously. Whether it be monetary, or coming out to be part of the crew or just deep prayer, we can use all the help we can get to get this excellent project completed and start changing peoples’ lives for the better.

Joe Yoder (AKA…Frank)

Make your donation to help produce Jeff’s World.  Click here!

After the preview is complete we will raise the money for the movie in segments.  We’ve already broken the screenplay down into five segments – 1. The church service / large gathering scenes. 2. The apartment scenes.  3. The flashback scenes / illustrated story scenes. 4. The church office scenes.  5. Annimated sequences.  We will raise the money to shoot each one of these segments seperately.  Then once all these segments are done we’ll raise the money needed for post production including, editing, sound design, and music.  This will break down the $75,000 needed to complete this movie into managable bite sized pieces.

We have also moved our fund raising efforts away from Kickstart and over to Indiegogo.  The reason for this is that Kickstarter doesn’t let us keep the money people pledge unless the entire fundraising goal is met by the deadline.  So that means we didn’t get a dime of the $3,300 we raised on Kickstarter because we didn’t reach our goal of $25,000 so nobody’s cards were charged.  Indiegogo, on the other hand, will let us keep whatever is donated.

We have launched our campaign to raise the money to shoot the preview.  We are looking to raise $2,700 by Friday April 20.  We’re off to a good start! If you previsiously pledged on Kickstarter, make sure to bring that donation over to Indiegogo.  Just follow the link.

How much will you contribute?

 Just trying to be helpful….

bob

After two main audition calls, and a few micro auditions, we’ve casted almost 60 roles for our movie Jeff’s World.  We’d like to thank Back 2 One studios for assisting us in this effort.  We’ve also made progress in selecting our crew and are now turning our attention to filling out the remainder crew spots that need to be filled.

Thank you for making your pledges to Jeff’s World on Kickstarter 

-bob humphrey

We’ve been getting a lot of questions from people regarding making pledges, so I’d like to take a moment to address those.  We’re raising the money we need to shoot this movie on a website called Kickstarter.  Kickstarter is a platform that was created for the very purpose of helping people fund their creative endeavors.

The way this works is a funding goal and a deadline are set.  In our case our goal is $25,000 and our deadline to reach that goal is March 24, 2012.  People go to our Kickstarter project website and click on the “Pledge” button.  Then they enter the amount they would like to pledge.  But, their credit cards are NOT charged until March 24, IF the fund raising goal of $25,000 is reached.  So people can make pledges at anytime.  They don’t have to wait for payday, as long as they know they’ll have the money by March 24.  However, if the goal of raising $25,000 is not reached by the deadline, their cards will NEVER be charged and we won’t receive one cent.  It’s all or nothing.  We either raise ALL the money by the deadline or we receive NOTHING and the movie goes on hold.  (This is why it’s crucial that people make their pledges now.)

The pledges are all made through Amazon.  So making a pledge is simple, fast, and secure.  If you already have an account with Amazon then it’s a total breeze because you can use your account to make the pledge.

Now that these things are cleared up, why not make a pledge today?  Click here.

We will now being reviewing tape, our notes, and making our decisions for the roles, so stay tuned to our Jeff’s World blog for all of our updates.

We sincerely appreciate the effort everyone made to be there last Saturday and today. We do not take this process for granted. We will contact every person who took time to audition to let them know the results. You folks are pursuing your dream just as much as we’re pursuing ours.

Thanks. -bob humphrey

It’s a very fast and slow paced life that requires both the ability to go from 0 to 100 MPH in a split second and the ability to be extremely patient, take a deep breath and slow down.  It is an interesting life.  But because movie making is in our blood, we wouldn’t trade this journey for anything!

Help make Jeff’s World!