evilzombie20
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Re: Automaton Transfusion 2?
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It's wonderful that you can call someone a friend whom made you a free poster to do with what you'd like but couldn't be bothered to consider giving them a t-shirt you used the design on and when asked about getting one got told there were none left at that point and they stopped making them.
I'm sorry but most seem to be in agreement with me that if someone does you a favor by making you a free poster, that you used everywhere to my knowledge, and you print it on a shirt - the right, and friend-like thing to do is to send the designer a free shirt. Not offer them tickets to the premiere of the film as compensation when they live thousands of miles away.
Anyways, that's not my point, but I find it interesting you could call me a friend after that and furthermore not even apologizing after the fact when it was brought to your attention. Despite the fact I do understand you personally were not printing the shirts, but someone in the UK whom you gave permission to was - and you were making no money off of them for the love of your fans, the right thing and again friendly thing to do in that case would have been to offer me a shirt and not have me at some point have to bring it up.
I will point out that after I did address the issue, Mr. Miller offered to send me a shirt which I'm pretty sure I said I would take and to this day - have never received.
Moving on.
I rented the film to give you the benefit of the doubt and also to confirm what you said was true. Now it's a possibility the version I rented was the "retail" version, or someone accidentally opened the "retail" version for rental instead of sale - the truth is I don't know what the circumstances surrounding it are. HOWEVER I do know I rented it, compared it to the retail version I own, and they were identical in terms of picture quality and special features. Even if the discs were not identical and there were less special features on the disc, the picture quality on the rental version more than likely would have been better due to the abundance of space that would have been on the disc providing they didn't use up a whole layer for a commentary, a short film, and a few minutes of deleted scenes. Judging by most single layer DVD standards, even going back to when DVDs first came out, I do not think that was the case. Both transfers were identical, and the discs had all the special features.
Again I cannot confirm the possibility I rented the "retail" version by fault of an employee there, or just miscommunication on Mr. Miller's part or hell even a misprint on the back of the DVD cover for the rental version but I can confirm the two discs I had in my possession were identical.
Now, onto whether or not it would matter if it sold or rented. Well if there was a miscommunication on your part with Dimension in terms of the rental version being different, you're right, it's not your fault if you told people that with that impression and you were unintentionally incorrect in your statement so the blame wouldn't point towards you - it would shift to Dimension. However, I may not have directed and sold my own film to a distribution company but I would imagine the film selling well over renting well would have a better chance at getting you either the chance to do a sequel or another film in general. Which to my understand is what has happened with you at this point.
Millions, upon millions, rent films from various avenues - Netflix, Blockbuster, etc. - however you don't have many that buy on a film, especially if it's a low budget feature they've never heard of. So obviously if a studio sees a low budget zombie film is selling just as much, if not more than renting, I'd imagine you'd warrant yourself some additional attention. That to me just makes much more sense because you can look at the statistics, about 66% will rent before buying when it comes to unknown films and again I'm sure a studio would look at a film selling more copies than renting as a positive thing and would encourage to have you do another film so they could sell that one as well and hopefully see the same numbers, if not greater, come up.
To myself, it just makes sense that way.
I'd really like to be done with this discussion as it's getting old and tiresome, and as many of you can see is just about over a year old, but I feel as if my credibility was questioned and granted I'm not a regular member on here I'm sure some can safely say I'm not a bad guy, not one to start trouble, and generally speaking have a good idea of what I'm talking about when it comes to horror films and the industry they're in. However when I see someone who made a film saying to people, "Buy, don't rent my film because the retail version has more features and a better transfer", and when I confirm this to be false based on my own study - I don't mind calling bull shit on that and letting those know.
I'm a fan of supporting indie features and that would more than likely be why I make a lot of free posters for filmmakers, and on that note I'd like to point out that if anything I did make for any of them was printed on a button, poster, t-shirt, whatever, I was offered the item for free and never once had to ask; up until AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION of course, so I don't mind if someone says, "You know, if you guys buy my film instead of renting it, I'll have a better chance of making another film so please support me so I can give you a bigger, better film". Granted it's not the best thing to say but you know what, it's honest. Now I cannot guarantee I will go out and buy someone's film with that statement but I would certainly consider it, especially if it looks like a good film.
At this point I feel like I'm trying to kiss someone's ass just to be nice so I'll leave it on the note that I didn't appreciate the lie I believe was told, and I didn't appreciate having to ask for a t-shirt using the free design I gave the studio when up to that point EVERY poster I have ever designed for anyone to use in anything I was given whatever it was used on. I don't think that in any sense is unreasonable.
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