I'd appreciate the support: https://www.patreon.com/posts/11232789 I think you can watch it for free, but of course I'd appreciate any donations for the hard work. Let me know if you have any trouble watching it.
Awesome man! Congrats on the film. I'm a big fan of documentaries. Will check it out this weekend. How long did it take you to make the whole thing from start to finish?
so far so good!! unsolicited testimonial, good stuff so far, I'm about 20 minutes in. really well done, love the animations.
Can't watch it at work, but I look forward to checking this out. Congrats! I really am looking forward to it.
We got the idea in March and I started shooting some before mother's day in Austin, but the road trip where most of the footage was shot was a 5 day trip and editing, music, color correction, animation, sound mastering etc took 7 months. So the bulk of the work was done in 7 months.
Holy cow, that was fantastic. I know that often the challenge in a documentary can be to give it a story arch. I don't know how much you had to do, but it had an amazing story arch that drew me in, and it seemed completely organic, and like that part of it required no crafting. On the other hand, I know that going a road trip with buddies can be a haphazzard thing that might be very difficult to find a story arch. So surely there had to be some amount of structuring the footage, revealing your take on the clues etc. But it really did seem organic which is probably best compliment I can give a documentary. Excellent work. Congrats. I know you didn't ask for feedback, and you can ignore mine, but I really did enjoy it. Glad you shared it.
hey @don grahamleone , don't know if you have seen this piece in the Washington Post yet today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-pastor:homepage/story&utm_term=.5271237dfcbe
I wonder how many posters here have buried treasure. Would be fun to let your family know you buried everything in the will, and whoever finds it first. Leave all kinds of false leads. Good times. Set a trap for all future finders. Will review the documentary later.
Yeah, I heard that news. I hope my documentary didn't inspire him to be risky. I know I did some stupid stuff but it was all calculated and with people who could potentially help you out of a jam. He was pretty close to where I was during my doc.
OP, good idea and great education. I was interested and entertained anyway. Congrats! Probably about 10x the work any of us can imagine.
Man, I can't wait to watch this. I'm going to right now, since I'm off tomorrow. Much respect. Is this the documentary you mentioned to me a while ago? Edit: I enjoyed it a lot. I'm going to read into Fenn. There's no way there isn't any gold, but he just wanted people to adventure, is there? Four cards and a joker....
Eggzero, it's a different DOC. But there's definitely gold in New Mexico. I found a place and panned about 30 dollars worth of wild stuff in a creek. Happy to share the location if you'll pick me up and drive. It wasn't worth the gas but MAN...finding actual gold was a thrill. Again, it wasn't the real treasure, just friggin cool
I thought so. It's a pretty wild story. If I was able to, I'd love to search for it. I watched your film before I went to sleep last night and I had a dream about it. I was at some random dude's house in the middle of nowhere. He had all sorts of random junk strewn about his place, and it was a mess, but he seemed wise. Before I went to bed, I had read that Fenn has said, in real life that, as far as he knows, no one has found the treasure, buy people have come within 200 feet of it. So, I asked this random guy, without being up the subject, "Did you see the documentary?" He said yes. I said, "Were they the ones that came within 200 feet?" He got a big grin on his face and slowly nodded. Maybe the guy was my mind's interpretation of Fenn. I don't know. Didn't look like him, though. Looked more like Einstein.
