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This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 9, 2010.
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Connected as Kevin Michael Johnson
Kevin has been living and working as an actor and musician in New York City since early 2005. He has a profound appreciation for the generosity of live performance and a fascination with the magic that happens between art and audience.
Kevin is the founder of Blue Loon Films, and is currently working on the company's first full-length documentary entitled, "The Raid."
Donors be sure to check the most recent update or your email for a chance to see the final edit!
Hey Kevin
Great to here the preview will be during Blizzcon, we live 15 minutes away but unfortunately cant make it due to daughter's wedding that weekend :). Look for ward to the DVD. Great to be on the ground floor with your much anticipated documentary.
aka
Gobø LvL 80 MM Hunter Endzeit, Malorne
LvL 66 in the game of life
Hey Scott! Sorry for a late reply here...if you still want to donate towards the film we'd be happy to have you! You can find a donate button at the bottom of our homepage at http://www.jointheraid.com.
Congrats on the funding! Much anticipated film.
Is it done yet xD
Jking. Hope you got some teasers up real soon!
Can't wait!
-Leroy aka Darkmos, Amethist Defias Brotherhood
@Kevin ~ subject to your response I do want to pleage $25. How can I now do this as you have now reached your goal.
@Kevin ~ Im from Wales, UK. Can you have outside of US backing?
Congrats to Kevin on the Official funding of this film and TY for everyone who pledged.. This is going to be epic.
Nice, Mike! Thanks for the share!
found an interesting read, http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/31/f-forbes-women-gaming.html
"Many find gaming helps them increase their comfort level with technology and assist their career advancement. "The average age of gamers in the U.S. is 35,"
"it's estimated that by 2015, 1 in 5 of the U.S.'s biggest companies will be investing in games for training and development. Already Innov8, developed by IBM's Serious Games Group, is used in more than 1,000 universities' business programs globally to teach process management in traffic, customer service and supply-chain scenarios."
"Role-playing games help with job training"
and not sure if I buy this last one but
"Consider "World of Warcraft," developed by Blizzard Studios, which holds the Guinness World Record for the most subscribed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), with over 10 million players worldwide. "We see grade schoolers managing guilds of players from around the globe, participating in teamwork, assigning special tasks," says Steinberg."
Anyway I hope you all find it as enlightening a read as I did.
Hey, Laura! Welcome aboard. You can find the TS info here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theraid/the-raid-promo/posts/5479
I'm really looking forward to this. I would love to have something to show my family and non-gamer friends to explain what I see in the game I love.
P.S. Could you send me the TS info too?
Hey big...sent you a mail about it!
Anyone know how to get your donor status with Tankspot if you pledged enough?
Hey Kevin hope this all goes well this is a sweet project and i anticipate a good film. Keep it up ^.^
@Iretehshizz- To answer the first question...absolutely. All the extra funds will go into the making the production of even higher quality. In fact, I'm putting up a little update video soon that will go into more detail about all that.
To answer the second: Yes! Of course. Anyone who donates here on Kickstarter (or Paypal) while the campaign continues (15 more days) will get the gift rewards. It's the least we can do to thank you for the support!
One more question to add. If we happen to donate $25 AFTER the $12k Goal was me will we still be allowed to download the film?
Will the extra money that you received be automatically funded towards the actual film?
(I apologize if this was posted somewhere else, I was unable to find it).
sure thing, Cas!
KMJ once this project ends on kickstarter will you post on how much you got through paypal maybe :) Just interested :D
Late to the donating but still had time to spare, cant wait to see how it all goes :)
I hope you take this as far as it can go.. Grats on making your 12k goal.. Give your people a little extra :P
Thanks, everybody! You all are a fantastic support!
good job man, and to all of you as well! *leans back in chair* I'm intrigued by all this
Kudos Kev, let me know if you need something.
Wonderful, wonderful!
Totally Sahweet!!! Congrats Kevin. With 27 days to spare :)
Congrats, Kevin!
Glad to see that the goal has been reached and I hope that number continues to grow over the next 27 days.
As always, I'll help out however I am able to although that is limited with my somewhat hectic schedule at this time. Just drop me an e-mail if you need anything!
~T
Really looking forward to this ! The "teasers" seem awesome :D Good job!
We Reached the goal!!!
Congrats keep going!
Gotcha. Just another thing to look foward to from such an awesome project. Congrats!
Hey Nathan! I did actually release it for a short while but then realized that it wasn't quite timely to release it. I still plan on incorporating it in the future. It was just all in the timing!
I just thought of something... What ever happened to "The Raid: 101"? I haven't seen anything regarding it outside of the pictures and notification that it was in production. Is that still going on? Or has it already been released, and I'm missing something?
Well...gosh...look what just happened!
$150 to go! Whoo!
Only $800 to go! We can do this, guys, even if 200 of the current backers just jack up their donations by four bucks.
Ooh! Less that 1K left! We can do it! I just threw in $10 to the cause (all I can afford at the moment.)
I really hope this gets funding! Just donated to it myself. I think this is a great idea and I can't wait to see the finished product! Found out about this through Tankspot.
Best of Luck!
Bandi
Azuremyst
Just $1,299 to go(What's that in pounds? A fiver?). Good luck mate.
Wuhu! $1944 left almost there! Though BluePlz listener failed!
Good luck, Kevin, Really hoping this gets off the ground. After hearing about your project on Blue Plz! I wrote up a little something on my own piece of the web to hopefully get my guild/server in on the kickstarter program.
Again, what you're doing is great, keep up the good work!
http://borsked.com/2010/03/01/join-the-raid/
Over 10 000!!!! OMGOMGOMG
Blue Plz listener here. We're up over $10,000 now.
Let's go, I want this film to be made.
Greetings form another BluePlz listener over on Cynical Brit
just dropped in a pledge, will up it if i can afford to before the end.
Hope you hit target :)
Grettings from a part of the listener-base of the Cynical Brit!
Dropped in my contribution, what I can spare for now, I'll see if I can up it a bit before your deadline because this project definetly sounds worth it.
Best of luck!
Nappa: Vejita what does the scouter say about the money pledged?
Vejita: ITS OVER 9000!!!!!
Hey guys what's up!
I would like to tank this chance to thank everyone who watched the interview and has taken the time to message me either on tankspot or in game. Thank you for all the support and know that even if I do not have a chance to reply to your tells (usually I am afking or tabbed out reading tankspot or to busy in a raid of my own and the only thing I see in my tells window is "tricks gave you x damage" 100 times over) know that I read all the messages I get. I have also received several in-game mails from people who are not even on my server (as well as a few from those who are which I appreciate also thank you), I appreciate the effort it took to farm that 30 copper to send a mail and the walk to the first mailbox (which is actually rather time consuming for a level one believe it or not)
Thanks for the support and keep it coming.
Mike/Darksend
p.s. Hey kev give me a few days and check your email, I am working on a project that I realized mid-way through might be able to help you out (do you have word 2007? if so shoot me an email and I can send you what I have so far)
KMJ, just to back up Joel here, I would also like to thank you for the your work here and the level that it is being produced on. I think the the more serious wow players are stereo-typed and hated on a lot to the point where we as players are almost embarrassed to 'admit' we play this game at a serious level. Thanks so much and keep up the good work!!!!
Brian
KMJ, glad to be able to pitch in some and help. I love the teaser videos and interviews so far, and appreciate you approaching this project with a level of respect for the game and players involved.
I'll be keeping my eye on the funding level, and will toss some more funding your way if needed to ensure this project happens. Keep up the awesome work. Cheers!