Excelsior BTS - The Music

A BIG thank you goes to Benjamin Dawson for composing the great music for Excelsior. He really portrayed the right emotion in each scene. We would definitely recommend Benjamin to other filmmakers looking for a composer!

You can contact Benjamin here, or go to his website: http://www.composerbenjamin.blogspot.com/

Here are a few of pieces of Benjamin's music:

Excelsior - Opening Scene by benjamindawson

Doug's Decision by benjamindawson

Check out Benjamin's Sound Cloud page to hear more of his music: www.SoundCloud.com/BenjaminDawson

Also, here's a short clip of his interview from the Behind The Scenes Featurette:

Excelsior BTS - The Logo (Video)

In this video, Andrew Bartlett explains how he made the Excelsior logo.

Exclesior Giveaway Winners

Now that the Excelsior DVD Giveaway has officially ended, it is time to announce our winners.  Since we must declare a draw for first place, free DVDs will be mailed to both:

Aubrey Hansen

Lulu Maggie

Congratulations! Please send your mailing addresses to info@excelsiorthemovie.com.

Our Second Place winner is Andrew Bornemann, who will recieve $0.25 off when you order the DVD.  Thanks for participating, Andrew!

For everyone else, you can still see 8 minutes of the Behind the Scenes Featurette free with the post of the Excelsior trailer once or more.  See below for details. 

To purchase the DVD directly, send a check for $10 (including s/h) to:

Excelsior the Movie
6200 230th St S
Hawley, MN 56549

Get Free Exclusive Online Access to BTS

NEW: Any person who posts the Excelsior trailer at least once will receive exclusive password-protected online access to the first 8 minutes of Excelsior's Behind the Scenes (BTS) Featurette!  Just send an email to info@excelsiorthemovie.com after posting your link on the Giveaway blog post.
Enjoy!
-The Excelsior Team

DVD Giveaway and NEW Trailer!!!

The Excelsior Special Edition DVD is now available for sale! Praise the Lord for His faithfulness throughout production. In addition to the actual 15 minute dramatic short film, we have also included a detailed 30 minute Behind-The-Scenes featurette, a revealing commentary on the entire film, outtakes, deleted scenes, and an instructional video on how to make your own camera dolly. 

To celebrate, we decided to host a DVD giveaway.  Here's how it works:

1. Watch the NEW trailer (below).

YouTube


Vimeo


2. Copy the html code and post this trailer in as many unique locations as you can: blogger, facebook, twitter, your website, etc.

3. For each place you post the trailer, comment on this announcement with a link to where we can find it.

4. The person who posts the trailer in the most places by October 10th wins a free DVD!  (A $10 value)

5. The two runner-ups will receive a $0.25 credit toward the DVD for each place they posted the trailer.

To purchase the DVD directly, send a check for $10 (including s/h) to:

Excelsior the Movie
6200 230th St S
Hawley, MN 56549

The Excelsior Production Team

Excelsior Road

When my dad and I were traveling to Baxter, MN last week, we just HAD to stop and take a picture of this road sign!

Also, I wanted to announce that we have an exciting giveaway coming up, so be sure to keep an eye on this blog! :-)

Behind the scenes of the Behind The Scenes

Lately I (Andrew) have been busy working on editing the Behind the scenes for the Special Edition Excelsior DVD.

Me working late...

A screenshot.

Filming Peter's interview.

I'm in the "Cutting" stage. It is about an hour long right now, but we are going for a half hour. So that means something has to go!

Andrew