Campus Party: by the minute
In this post we'll update what we're doing as it goes. Important things will be in a different post.
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| July, the 26th
1:06< We've just finished preparing all the packages. Tomorrow at nine we will meet the 9 of us who are going, in order to spread ourselves out between the different cars and leave early.
The people commencing this adventure are:
-Bruno T., Carola R. and myself. We're representatives of Riot Cinema Collective.
- Miki Ávila and Jaime Asensio, representatives of our production team and of all the assistant scholars in the world.
- Ezequiel Romero, as invited postproducer, with Jordi Roca's invaluable help.
- Altea Alcalde as our official PR.
-Alex Rodrigo, our special guest who will promote Pendiente de Titulo.
| July, the 27th
At last, we've managed to settle down after being ALL evening taking things from one place to another, connecting computers and putting up the banner. Right now our tent's been put up and every now and then, we explain to curious people what Cosmonaut is and the music is playing full-throttle. WELCOME to Campus Party...
Watch live:
-Getting supplies for a very long first night: http://twitpic.com/bui7w
-Accredited at last: http://twitpic.com/bu901
- It's 3:13 in the morning and the DC++ is already working to its limit in all the computers.
As an example:
The guys from Riot and Ártica: they're editing, watching old TV shows from the 60s, fighting with the DC, writing next Thursday's conference and so on, and so on.
11:41| A wonderful marketing idea: Selling Filipinos' holes. Epic simplicity.
| July, the 28th
After the hangover from our first full-throttle Internet night, we go back to work. The
PDT (Title Pending) guys are putting up posters while they wait for a miracoulous call from Jarabe de Palo's head of marketing. They never get it.
Thinks seem to be going better than the first day for our merchandising stall, and campus people lose their fear to ask what the hell is that thing call 'Astronaut', and why do we feel so cool. The number of visits increases, friendships multiply and so do the credits.
Meanwhile, untidiness piles up on some tables:
... and we behave silly, a little bit:
-It's 00:18 and this is still on fire!
| July, the 29th
11:00-12:00 Bruno and Jaime find out which bus takes you to Malvarosa beach from CP. It's number 19.
12:00- An interview with elmundo.es: Carola arrives these people's stalls feeling a bit zombie and finds herself surrounded by journalists.
14:00- A conference about social networks. We talk about widgets with Altea and Facebook's representative ('600 producers and friends in two months? Wow! That's not too bad!') and we say hello again to Ícaro Moyano ('Are you preparing interviews? I'll come by later and give you something to comment!'). He remembers Bruno even though he's wearing a moustache now ('Sure! How's Cosmonaut going?).
This is an answer which has started to be scary each time we present the Project:
-Well, it's a film distributed and financed on the Internet, with Creative...
- Sure! You're talking about Cosmonaut, aren't you?
14:47- To hell with social media. At CP it's really easy to know what campus people want: they're shouting it. Right now, there are 1,000 people shouting at the same time: 'Fresh aiiiiiiiiir!!'.
16:40- An interview with Cristina Fuentes, from Reuters.
Our videodiaries are now available on Youtube!
18:30- Álex and Ezequiel have finished Title Pending's last episode... Amazing! We'll be able to watch it soon.
22:00- We talk for forty-five minutes about Creative Commons and contents exclusiveness with Francisco Asensi, Business Development Director for RTVE.es. RTVE are actually updating. And really well.
22:15- Wow! You can now read Cristina Fuentes' beautiful article for Reuters. In her own words, 'for now, the article will definitely be on Yahoo's news section, and maybe on The Economist website and in Madrid's free papers'. 1,000 Thx!
- 2 pieces of news which, if they turn out right, will give a turn to our projet (we can't say anything about it yet)
-We've been given a full page in Ciberpaís and we've done interviews for Punto Radio in Seville, Principado de Asturias radio, Nueva España newspaper and finally, for a Crowdfunding feature in FOTOGRAMAS.
-More exciting news about new projects for our production company keep coming in.
- They haven't signed yet, but we have two new investors which will give figures between 1,000 and 2,000 euros.
And after this busy morning, we're gonna get ready for this evening's lecture J
16:15- As fucking always, we're going to the lecture, we've hardly prepared and we've no ide about what we're going to say J (Thank goodness they turn out alright afterwards!)
18:10- We start the lecture with a bit of delay. There aren't many people (we can still hear 'bukakeeee' shouts). Let's do it.
19:00- We're nearly finishing and there are more people now. What's going to happen? At this moment is when we relax, we start to make jokes and we recruit people to become producers.
19:10- We find out who's giving the next lecture: some guy from Pixar, hehe. But we've been given compliments for our lecture, we've been proposed for an interwiev here and we've added up more producers.
21:08- It is clearly exhausting being at Campus Party recruiting producers. And campus laziness gets a little into all of us.
23:55- After realising that we're getting crazy, we decide to go to the beach to have dinner with a portable stove and some towels.
|July, the 30th
13:10- Mmmm... Good morning, Friday.
15:18- Pablo Larguía, Red Innova's director, pays a visit at our stand in Campus Party to say congratulations about our film again. We profusely thank him for organizing Red Innova, because we had the time of our lives and me met lots of interesting people.
'Nuit' time: We've been to see Pixar's Up. Some of us are shocked, others feel pletoric... What's for sure is that the short film which goes with it (Partially Clouded) is a brilliant conceptual imagination exercise.
| August, the 1st
The first thing we find after landing is this:
Sent from David's iPhone, from Tractis. 1,000 thanks! J
1:00- And with a bit of delay, we proceed to the prize draw for a cosmonaut's costume. We won't lie to you, there isn't much expectation... Half of the Campus Party people are still excited about invading the lake in Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
This is reaching its end. People start to pack up and lights are turned down, the computers use their last connection hours to download stuff and we start to pack up little by little, as if we were a bit hungover and lazy.
It's been an amazing week full of good and bad things. We've had a lot of presence in the Media. We've run away to Gijón to give a lecture. We've spoken to our producers and met very interesting people.
We'll be posting conclusions in a video in a little whille: all the good and bad things J
Good Bye Campus Party and tank you.
PS: We have arrived in Madrid at 1:30 in the morning since it took us some time to pack up and our van ran out of battery. We left Valencia at 20:00... Let's sleep and have some rest!
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