A couple of months on...

After an excellent first month or so, things have tailed off on the downloads. Overall the experiment has been successful - the technology worked, people were generous - but it seems the flaw in the system is quite simply exposure. Being as we made a stand-alone payment system (no-one else could offer a pay-what-you-like service), people just don't chance across us while generally browsing or by accident. Of course there is always the potential to be picked up by other blogs / sites etc, but after the first 8 weeks or so and the news becomes old news, this hasn't really happened to any great extent.

One factor not helping us was my own time, which has been divided between having to get paid work and another exciting project, which has meant I've not chased things up as well as I might have. Another is that, this being a brand new expriment and all, there is no mechanism in the press or media to review downloads - only cinema or (at a pinch) DVD count. Inevitably this will change, but we may be a little ahead of our time on this one.

However, the film is still there, and it doesn't take much for a mention here or there to start another little flurry of interest. We have a rating of 9.2/10 on the Internet Movie Database, and I should be able to tell you all about another form of distribution for the film very soon. I'm so proud of what everyone working on this film acheived, and getting feedback from people who have seen it and been engrossed by it has been the greatest thing.