Exclusive sneak peek of our crowdfunding video! (Patreon)

This morning I approved the final cut of our crowdfunding campaign video, and I want you to be the first to see!

Please DO NOT share this video... yet. It'll be public on our Indiegogo page as soon as the campaign launches on Saturday. Until then, this private preview is for the AniFem team and patrons ONLY. 

Just click on the link to go to our private video on Vimeo, and enter the password "patron" to see the video that took a week to make. 

A week is actually pretty good - at least four days of that was spent encoding and re-encoding the eight takes I shot so they could be sent from Scotland, where I filmed them, to Tokyo, where our editor Callum lives! 

It took about 24 hours from outlining the script to finishing shooting. It was a pretty stressful 24 hours for me - I've not appeared on video for fandom before, and certainly not in a video I expect to share widely. Internet randos can be cruel to women on their screens, and I couldn't escape the feeling that I'd be judged for my face and body as much as my ability to connect with viewers and present a compelling case. 

Vanity and fears of trolls aside though, the script needed to be TIGHT. Three minutes, the time limit you aim for with a crowdfunding video, is really not long. As it is, I went about 15 seconds over, but that was the result of about 10 hours of trimming every millimetre of fat on those words... only to realise I'd missed out a vital point, and that adding it in would mean trimming another 20 seconds from an already lean script. 

After all that though, I love the professional quality our camera operator brought to the video and audio, and the layer of creativity Callum added to a plain talking head. (At one point he even made me laugh, at my own script!) 

I hope you enjoy the video, and that you agree our team did a great job on something so important to a crowdfunding campaign. If you're planning to contribute but haven't yet signed up on our pre-launch page, please do so at https://www.animefeminist.com/crowdfunding now!