We’ve got several exciting things to announce on the progress of our documentary. The biggest news is that Jeromy Barber from 12th Street House has agreed to join the project as our director! We’ve already had several creative meetings with Jeromy and have crafted a rough vision for the film. We’re lucky to have such a talented and creative artist leading this production!

Part of that rough vision includes spotlighting three independent Alternate Reality Games from three different producers. Obviously, the Remix Fiction game will be one of the three, but there are so many people doing amazing and innovative things in this creative space we wanted to use the film to showcase some of that talent. To that end, we’re proud to announce that Jim Babb’s Socks Inc. and Pistolsniffer Industries‘ (formerly known as Funnel Productions) as yet unreleased ARG will be prominently featured in the documentary.

That’s it for now. We will write periodic updates and post them right here so you can track our progress. As always, if you are interested in following the behind the scenes progress of the film we encourage you to visit Wreck-a-Movie where you can contribute your opinions and creative talents to the project.

We are excited to announce that Jeromy Barber has signed on to be the film's Director and principle Editor. Jeromy is the owner of 12th Street House, a film production company operating in east Texas that has developed and released several transmedia storytelling webseries properties - most notably the Alternate Reality Game "Maddison Atkins".

We’re probably more than a little crazy to attempt such an ambitious project considering we have zero experience creating documentaries. Of course, we’ve never claimed that sanity was our strong suit. If you noticed, the title of this post is “We’re making a documentary” – The we includes you too because there is no way that we could do this by ourselves. This will be a community-driven film that will be released for free under a creative commons license in October 2011.

The film will document the next year of transmedia storytelling and will include a behind the scenes look at Remix Fiction’s flagship property. It will also contain several other story threads that follow other projects, companies, organizations, alternate reality games, or transmedia campaigns. The Remix Fiction story will be the anchor, but what else is included in the final cut will be left mostly up to the community.

The most common question I’ve gotten about the Wreck-a-Movie production so far is “what am I supposed to do?”. We fully acknowledge that this film will succeed or fail based on whether or not we can build a community of people to help make this vision a reality. So, we’re going to take on a large share of the workload and will try to make it as easy as possible for you to contribute. Here are a few things you can do to help…

Join the production team:

The easiest thing you can do to support this project is become a member of the production team. To do this all you have to do is hit the “Join Now” button and create a free Wreak-a-Movie account. Even if you just complete this one task and contribute nothing else it demonstrates your support for the project and will enable us to send you an occasional email to let you know how things are going.

Ask questions:

Another simple way to contribute is to help us out with the Frequently Asked Questions. To add a question to our FAQ all you need to do is click the FAQ tab on our production page and use the “Give it a Shot” button. “Shots” are how members on Wreck-a-Movie contribute to productions. In the case of the FAQ, shots are used to ask a question and a comment holds the answer to that question.

Take a shot at completing a bigger task:

The entire production is organized into more manageable chunks using “Tasks” that are created by the production leader. These challenges could be things like; soliciting ideas for the film’s structure, creating DVD cover art, contributing video content, editing the film in Final Cut Pro, remixing raw footage into a trailer, and any number of other creative or administrative tasks. Again, you can “take a shot” at accomplishing each task or just vote on which shot you like best. Members who contribute the most shots that are incorporated into the final product will be recognized in the film credits.

I hope that answers some of your initial questions about the project. If you have any questions please add them to the production FAQ page.