Showing The Film (To The People In The Film)

Hey Everybody,

Last week we took a quick trip to Montreal to visit Phil Fish and Renaud Bedard, the designer and programmer (respectively) of FEZ.  With the film pretty much all but done, we are ready to start showing this thing that we’ve spent the last 18 months working on.  

However, before we began to think public, or even casual, showings of the film.  It was incredibly important that we personally show IGTM to the people directly involved in it.  The thought process being:  We were exceptionally privileged to capture some incredibly raw, emotional moments while filming this movie.  Moments that (we think) make for a very powerful, very true and very inspiring film.  

But on the flip side, these are moments of openness and relative vulnerability on the part of the people we were interviewing.  We know how nerve-wrecking it can be to have shared so much with a film crew, and have no idea how its going to turn out.  In the time between filming and the finished product, tons of scenarios naturally start to play out in your head.  Worries can begin to build up.

We wanted to alleviate these worries as much, and as soon as possible by showing Edmund, Tommy, Jon and Phil the film before pretty much anyone else.  Above all, we really wanted to avoid them hearing about the film’s content from someone else. 

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Q: What did we use to do the subtitling?

Since posting the subtilting news, a number of people asked what program / method we used for doing the subtitles. So, rather than write multiple emails, we thought we’d do a quick follow up post with the information.  

After some looking around, we decided on using a program called Annotation Edit.  The website is not the most user-friendly / market-ready, but the program is really solid and does the job well.  It’s definitely one of the more pricier options, but the feature set and ease of use make it worth it.  We found this article over at Creative Cow really helpful in our research.  There isn’t a huge selection of Mac-based subtitling tools, and the creative cow article seems to hit all the ones worth considering.

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English Subtitles & 'Clean Version' will be available.

English Subtitles Available:

Hey Everybody,

Just wanted to share some news.  Indie Game: The Movie will indeed have English subtitles.  

We've recieved a lot of requests and inquiries for this, so we're glad to be finally able to announce it. It was always in the plans, but we always held off confirming it until it was 100%.

Subtitling is a new process for us, we wanted to make sure there weren't any hidden 'gotchas' or surprises.  Turns out, it is relatively straight forward, and we were able to get it done.  English subs will be included.  Stay tuned for news on other translations.

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IGTM Inspired Art ... Well, Edmund inspired art, actually

Here's a very cool piece of art (by gadevoi) inspired by Edmund's childhood art in the original IGTM pitch piece.  We were super excited to see this happen.  When we first saw Ed's original drawing, it was one of the most touching things we had ever seen.  Slightly amusing, slightly heart breaking, fully compelling.  So happy to see it struck a chord with someone else as well...

The original artwork from a 6-7 year old Edmund Mcmillen:

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Official Poster!

Hey, we have a poster!

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