September has been one of our busiest months to date!

I’ve been pretty remiss in updating our company’s blog lately.  To be honest so many things have happened in the last month, I’ve been a little too distracted.  I will try and recap them at least in some semblance of order:

We started out strong with a showing at West Point’s FALL Combat Classic.  We made some more sales, and I heard from many a happy player who called or emailed me personally to thank us for the production quality and let us know how impressed they were and pleased they had not just purchased “yet another paintball DVD.”  I can assure you all, I share each and every one of your comments with the rest of the company and for better or worse we listen to them all and take notes for both the next version of this film and the next film that I am working on planning.  That being said, I really can’t thank you all enough for your continuing support.

Next on our agenda was the Paintball Extravaganza trade show in Atlanta, GA.  At best, the week was tough.  Jay and I spent all weekend at WP.  Jay flew to GA Monday morning, I worked all day and flew down Monday evening.  Our booth needed to be completely setup prior to when the show floor opened at 9am on Tuesday morning.  The hours of the show were 9am-7pm with no breaks.  At least one of us was required to at our booth at all times to avoid fines, and to assist we brought two additional personnel.  For Monday-Wed we had Jay, myself and Jamie.  Thursday I was alone until about 4:30 when the infamous Mr. Tackleberry arrived.  Friday the show only went until 4pm, Tack and I were in a cab returning to the airport by 4:15.  The thing about a trade show (which I learned that week, this was my first and only to date -> so these observations may be specific to the paintball industry) was very little *big* business is actually conducted during the day.  It is expected that nearly anyone who is anyone (at least amongst the vendors) meet at the hotel bar between about 9-1:30 and conduct the days business over some well earned drinks.  That means our business day was going from about 8:30-1:30 Monday-Thursday, with really only a break for dinner.  Like I said before, grueling!  But TONS AND TONS OF FUN!  I met some amazing people in the industry, snapped a couple of photos and may have opened some big doors for Scenario Paintball Films.

Scenario Paintball Films has now officially begun to work on “our next version.”  There is a custom version in the works for a yet to be disclosed manufacturer.  One of the major marker manufacturers noticed the quality of our work and talked to us about the possibility of doing an OEM version of the film, complete with a few extras catered specifically to that manufacturer’s products.  SPF is pretty stoked about the project as its really something we had originally planned on doing for the first version, but unfortunately we ran out of time due lack of industry support.  Now the support is there, Jay and I have planned a very aggressive production and editing schedule and foresee this version will be printed and out the door in plenty of time for the Christmas shopping season.

In the middle of all these things our first major magazine advertisement came out!  Check out the December issue of Action Pursuit Games.  It hit most newsstands on 22-September.  We have the inside rear cover page, and I think it looks pretty awesome!

Lastly this week I’m bouncing between scripting and pre-producing scenes that will be filmed as early as this weekend, continuing to market our current product, and of course my “regular life.”  Those who know personally know all the crazy (but awesome) busy stuff going on there.

Hopefully it won’t take another month to update everyone, until then keep watching Basic Painting! and spreading the word about our new production studio and the very best scenario paintball documentary to date!