I’d like to announce a Kickstarter fund that we’ve started for one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever worked on. It’s a short film based around the song “Down Down the Deep River,” an expansion of the music-video format, set in the mid-1980s and filmed in my town, the town that our album The Silver Gymnasium is based around. I wrote it, directed it, and am working on an all-original period score based around the motifs in our song “Down Down the Deep River.” The cast is all local unprofessional child actors from the area, and it’s being filmed in remote locations deep in the New Hamsphire woods and on period sets we’re creating ourselves from scratch.
I’ve never done any kind of crowd-sourcing before, but I’ve never done anything this ambitious before and it’s simply not the kind of thing I can realize without outside help. As I’ve worked more on the Kickstarter rewards I’ve become more and more excited because I’ve started viewing this campaign as an occasion to be creative with the prizes and rewards we can create for fans. To that end, I’m designing collectors’ cards based on the spin-off trading cards tied-in to 1980s films, as well as a beautiful film poster, an original “Read-Along” book with all-new audio and artwork, and a copy of the original soundtrack and score enclosed in a vintage video game cartridge. The Kickstarter is also an opportunity to develop a closer connection with fans, and on the experiential level we’re offering everything from credits in the film to private screenings in your town, from props from the film to on-set Polaroids updating you on the shoot. I think that with you guys’ help we can make something really beautiful, special, and singular.
– Will Sheff
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