Shenmue: The Documentary

[Jesse]

Cool looking forward to its release

[Ziming]

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[KX-5]

This will be something really nice to look forward to later on in the year. I can't wait ^.^. Also, congratulations to James on getting interviewed for the documentary!!!

[Ziming]

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[Supa]

Did anyone on Shenmue Dojo get interviewed? I mean, this is the the Shenmue site...

[south carmain]

Did anyone on Shenmue Dojo get interviewed? I mean, this is the the Shenmue site...

I know Shengoro did.

[Supa]

I saw that, I figured that was for the Facebook group. What about Yama or Ziming?

[Peter]

Best bit of Shenmue news to come out out in a long time. Good luck and well done to everyone involved. I'm really excited about seeing this!

[Peter]

B-Ren! Shit, good to see ya bud!

[Yokosuka Martian]

http://www.gamnesia.com/news/a-document ... SmydvnF_sQ

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[Peter]

Its a pity its a US based project. I would have loved to help out in some way.

[Yokosuka Martian]

He plans on visiting the UK and possibly Japan, so if you did want to take part in any way, then let him know!

[Peter]

Damn it. I wonder if he would be visiting before November. That's when I leave for Oz. I'd love to help out.

[Peter]

Hey everyone

Thanks for all the support/interest with the project so far. Sorry for not making an account here earlier, I just assumed that Shenmue 500k was sort of an extension of the dojo but I realize that not everyone uses Facebook. My bad!

I figured I would use this thread to keep you guys up to date as best I can. Here are how things are looking right now:

Voice actors I have interviews with Corey Marshall, Lisle Wilkerson, and Michael Naishtut. I've reached out to Deb Rabbai and Eric Kelso and they are both interested. I figure thats enough to go on for now and see how it develops.

Fans/youtubers I've filmed interviews with Amy Lei, James Reiner, Adam Koralik, and Mike Paprocki. I've spoken with Happy Console Gamer and Alpha Omega Sin and they both seem interested as well, it's just a matter of solidifying a time. They are both super busy so that might get pushed back until later in the year.

Critics I have one guy from Toronto who is a friend of mine that writes from various websites occasionally. The main one I got was Malik Forte who is the editor for Nerdist, he also has a bunch of videos on youtube. He had some pretty great things to say about Shenmue actually, really happy how that turned out.

Developers I have a long list of people I want to interview but I have yet to reach out to any of them. The project is still fairly new so I'm hoping to use the Facebook/twitter pages to gain enough buzz so some of the high priority people I want to talk to will agree to speak on camera. If I reach out too early I will just look like a diehard fan from Canada who wants to make a movie (which is 100% true) and they could easily ignore my emails if I don't look somewhat credible.

Luckily I am working with the guys from Fauxpop.com on this. We live in the same town and work together all the time; I pitched them the idea and they thought it was interesting, even though none of them knew what Shenmue was. They are the same guys that created Turtle Power: The definitive history of the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. That documentary had some pretty good success so I was able to go through them to initially reach out to people. They are close with some people at Nerdist so that's how we were able to contact Malik Forte, and they were the ones who first reached out to Cory on my behalf and got him interested. Right now Im doing pretty much all of the shooting/editing on my own but will collaborate with them later on and iron out some details.

I do plan on visiting the UK eventually, as well as China/Hongkong/Japan to get more interviews and shots of the in game locations etc. It's been all out of pocket at this point so I'll have to wait a bit longer.

Lastly I need to mention that I still do not have the rights to use in game footage from Sega (or whoever the heck owns the license at this time). The plan is to set up a meeting with them (Fauxpop should make that a little easier) once I have enough material to cut together a pitch package. The sad reality of it all is that there is a chance I might get shut down and that all of this will be for nothing. Im going to stay positive though, at this point it's all I can do!

One more thing: I want this to include as much work from fans as possible. I've talked to some people who are willing to translate the film in Spanish and German. I've talked to a few people about providing music, animations, and even doing some filming and sending me the footage. I want to include a bunch of fan drawn images scrolling alongside the credits at the end of the film as well. These are just a few examples so if you would like to help out in any way just shoot me a PM.


There is still not a release date for obvious reasons lol. Still lots of work to do. If you guys have any questions I'll try to answer them as best I can. Thanks!

[Peter]

Adam, good to have you on the site!

Congrats and awesome job on the documentary! I'm in work at the moment, but I will drop you a PM later on when I get to my laptop at home