Summary: Gratcast's latest season will follow our plan to make Just Drive Gratcast started out as a way to talk about what we were going to do before we did it, then sharing our efforts to do it. That philosophy took us around the country and beyond our wildest dreams, but we held back at times. We held back out of fear of the unknown, fear of being judged and a ton of other silly insecurities. The half-in, half-out approach bit us in the ass on many occasions, because were constantly in limbo between two counter philosophies. This time around we are more prepared and ready to do things right. So, once again only on Gratcast will we lay out our entire business model (Feb 4th), explain what our plan is and then share our efforts to execute every step of the plan. It has been a few months since we shared the adventure of our previous horror film, The Perfect House, and we are ready to invite you to join us on the road to our next film, Just Drive. The Perfect House is now available in almost all territories, more are added every quarter, and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD in the USA this year. What have we been up to since our last episode? A lot! Kris landed his first agent, which is good because he has been pumping out more scripts than we have time to shoot. He polished up Just Drive and Call Box, the next films we plan to shoot. Andrea was in a bit of a car accident in June and was stuck on the couch with broken bones for the past 5 months, so she edited a few novels and short stories over that time. We are currently in pre-developed production on Just Drive, and have been lucky to find a wonderful executive producer to join our team, Ryan Angel, with her production company Angel Baby Productions. This Season we are going to have a format to the shows where topics will be broken into segments. Netflix Nuggets will be about little treasures (movies or tv series) that we discovered and think Netflix is hiding. Madden Moments is a Recap of Kris’s PS4 2019 Madden season. The Making of Just Drive is the bulk of the show. This is where we will share exactly what we are doing to make our next film’s business model a reality. Netflix Nuggets: Hunger Games 2 This week our Netflix Nugget is actually a movie review of a recently released film, The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire. Kris points out the flaws with the franchise mentality of the films and how the rushed storyline lead to redundancy of the first film. They discuss how each franchise installment needs to be its own stand alone film and how the Hunger Games could’ve benefitted from other films’s methods of releasing epic stories. Madden Moments: 2018 Off Season Recap Kris discusses the parallels between his draft strategies and building Gratwick Films and Andrea recaps an off season that finds the Buffalo Bills rebuilding. Making Just Drive: An Introduction To Social Filmmaking We laid the foundation for social filmmaking when we started The Perfect House with our videos and pics on facebook during production and post, and then continued to build on it with the TPHtour, live Q&As, daily confessions, and tons of videos and pics. This time we know how to implement the technology that has finally caught up with our ideas and are ready to utilize our experiences and knowledge. Social filmmaking means sharing the story of what we are doing as we are doing it. Our business plan is based on a collection of ideas, platforms, and models combined and integrated together that make up social filmmaking. Our website is going to have content added to to it daily that will include “how to’s”, what we are working on, and how we are accomplishing each step of the plan. On Feb 4th we are going to release the complete social filmmaking business plan for Just Drive on our website as open source for other filmmakers to review and share. We will also have a special episode of Gratcast on the 4th where Kris will explain how we plan to execute said plan.
