The Thirteenth – the film based on The Judas Inheritance
Today, I was going to tell you about my riveting visit to the cardiologist in Rhodes last week, but that can wait a day – there’s nothing to worry about, so that’s fine. Instead I will share the news that Kickstarter backers, who put money into the film, should already know. That the post-production team are hopeful that the final cut should be finished by Friday this week. This is the film based on the book The Judas Inheritance which I wrote a couple of years ago now. It’s inspired by the ruins and village on Symi, though Symi is not actually mentioned in either as the location, as the story is fictitious (though the history of the island is explored, in context, in the novel). You can find a copy of the book at Amazon, The Judas Inheritance, where there is also a Kindle version. You can also search for it on Amazon.com.
The thing is that there are, appropriately, 13 backers who are eligible to have their photos shown in the end credits who have not yet sent in suitable images. I’ll put the text from the studio below in a moment. You may have received an email or update and replied to it and had an ‘okay’ back; your spam folders on your emails may have spammed the email for some reason and you’ve missed it, or you may not want to have your photo put up – in that case, just let them know. If you’re not sure then you can contact them through the Kickstarter update you should have received yesterday. And if you are really not sure, email me or contact me and I will let you know if your name is on the list.
The next thing is that if they don’t get a suitable image (which must be high resolution so it can appear on a large screen without you looking like a Picasso) by Friday, then your image will not appear. Once the end credits are done, then it will be too late to change them. So, check your spam if you know you are one of those (who put in over a certain amount) and send an image if you’ve not already done so, and if you’re unsure if the one you sent was good enough, contact them through that update to check.
The pertinent parts of the most recent update are: “We are currently in the process of putting in the photos of backers as part of the end credits. You will recall that last year we asked you all to send in your head and shoulders photos for this, and many of you did.
We have had to get back in touch with a number of people as our post-production people said they needed higher resolution copies of certain of these photos. You have to bear in mind that when projected on a full sized screen these photos could be as large as an A3 sheet of paper.
We have heard back from most of those we emailed but there are still 13 outstanding. We suspect it is possible the emails may have gone to junk folders and not been seen.
So we have today re-sent emails to those 13, using a different address. Hopefully this will reach them.
But if you have sent in a photo and you haven’t heard from us recently that it is okay please get in touch with us to check. And if you have not yet sent in a photo at all, but would now like to do so, please send it now. This is absolutely the very last chance.
Just to re-iterate: we need something like a passport head and shoulders photo (it can also be a couple together if preferred, but basically the same kind of close cropping of a passport photo). This photo needs to be at least 1 MB (megabyte) in file size. Larger is even better. If you don’t understand what this means, please get in touch. If you are scanning a hard copy photo, then please scan at 300 dpi (pixels) resolution or higher. Please contact Nigel on nigeledwards@1066productions.com with any questions about the photos, or to send in photos.”
Thank you, and more about our Rhodes trip, Symi updates and other matters tomorrow.
