With so many great stories we wanted a way to visually tell them without having to watch a talking head for minutes on end or just resort to the standard doc tropes of just cutting to old photos and videos (we will have some of that too, of course).
Turns out Jennie Cotterill is not just an amazing musician and one of the lead singers for Badcop/Badcop, but she is also a prolific artist. One of the many things she does is make puppets. When she made the suggestion of having her make some puppets for the film our heads exploded. I knew I had to see a Fat Mike Puppet reenacting some of the better stories we were told. Plus don't all of us want to see a Muppets-Style Fat Mike in bondage?
So some of this money will be going to pay for the materials and labor to create several amazing original puppets.
Check out some of the mock-ups
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After the puppets are complete we will use them to shoot cinematic re-enactments using narrative filming techniques as a final layer.
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For a particularly interesting story in the film, we felt to tell it correctly, we would need to have a certain amount of animation in the film...
We are very excited to be teaming up with COREPOPS for the animation portion of the film. COREPOPS has been featured on ADULT SWIM and has made "animated bumpers" for MTV2
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An important final step to any film is the final color and sound mixing. Think of these things as the final coat of wax that makes your car shine and look complete after a detail!
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In order to get this thing into theaters and on major streaming outlets we have to have permission to use any songs, photos, videos or artwork that is in the film. Sometimes this can require financial compensation to the creator / writer/ photographer of said media. To work out the deals and agreements takes time and sometimes a skilled entertainment attorney,
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We want this film to be seen in the theater by as many Fat fans as possible. In order to do that we need funding to setup screenings around the world and submit the film to be in film festivals.
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Besides getting an amazing film about something you care about we also have a few A FAT WRECK rewards/perk for helping us get this thing finished up and in front of your eyeballs!
Check out some of the really rad and unique perks we have set up for this campaign
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A FAT WRECK T-SHIRT designed by COREPOPS
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Over the past year we have conducted over 70 interviews! Here are a few highlights
Fat Mike /Co-owner of Fat Wreck Chords | NOFX | Motor Studios
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Erin Burkett /Co-owner of Fat Wreck Chords
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Laura Jane Grace /Singer of Against Me | Host of AOL’s TrueTrans
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Chris Shiflett /Foo Fighters | No Use For A Name | HBO’s Sonic Highways
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Ryan Greene /Producer | Engineer | Validus Studios | Motor Studios
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Joey Cape /Lagwagon | Bad Astronaut | Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies
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Chris Hannah / Guitarist/Singer of Propagandhi | G7 Welcoming Committee Records
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Featuring interviews with band members From acts such as:
NOFX / Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies / Lagwagon / Propagandhi
StrungOut / Good Riddance / No Use For a Name / Foo Fighters
Swingin Utters / Pennywise / The Vandals / Bad Religion / The Bombpops / Less Than Jake / MXPX / Protest The Hero / Ten Foot Pole / Wax / The Implants / A Wilhelm Scream / The Flatliners / Masked Intruder / Get Dead / BadCop BadCop / Teenage Bottlerocket / Red City Radio / Wizo / Tilt / Goober Patrol / Bracket / The Weakerthans / Hi-Standard
Other Ways You Can Help
Beyond contributing directly, you can help the most by helping spread the word about the film to other Fat Wreck Fans! Tweet it, post it, Instagram it, Periscope it, Snapchat it, Do smoke signals, send a telegram, strip-o-gram, share it on Facebook, make a thread on a web forum, make a Facebook group, start a subreddit, print your own fanzine about it. However you feel the best course of action to get the info out would be a HUGE help! Thank you
-Shaun
Director Dude A Fat Wreck
#AFATWRECK
