We’ve been busy preparing and producing video footage for our trailer. We were aiming to create a mysterious, somewhat cheesy, and slightly funny video experience. When writing our script, we looked at other videos for inspiration and in the end, we settled with something heavily inspired by Escape the Dark Castle by Themeborne (by the way, they have a campaign for their next project on Kickstarter) and the Age of Empires II intro scene. NOTE: All newsletter subscribers will get an exclusive copy of our script and exclusive behind the scenes photos from our shooting day. Subscribe now.

The shooting day was quite an experience. I arrived at the church at 10-ish with over 60 kilograms of monk robes. After the initial setup and a first walk around the set, I selected locations for filming our scenes. And then some magic happened. We took 2-3 shots per scene on average and were finished with the first pass after like 4 hours. We repeated and added a few scenes after checking the footage. We had planned for two full days of shooting and were finished in 6 hours total. Amazing!

Here are things I learned:

• Everything looks different from the camera’s perspective
• Being silly sometimes brings the best ideas
• Marble church floors are really cold, especially when walking them barefoot for 6 hours
• Monk robes are heavy but quite comfortable to wear.

A friend of ours is already involved in cutting so that we hopefully have a trailer ready soon. So excited

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Note of shame: Guess who managed to write a blog post over a month ago AND forgot to publish it. Yes, it was me. The good news is, there will be another blogpost shortly

It is astonishingly difficult to plan a video trailer for a board game. First there was the logistic challenge of finding all the actors and the equipment. Then, someone needed to write a script. We needed props, to build a mood. Finally, we had to find a location.

And as always we are ever so thankful for our network. Within the last 2 weeks…

• we found an actual church, that allows us to film there.
• we had 6 people agree to help us out as actors and helping hands on set
• we can borrow clothing from a friendly LARP association. Big thanks to Engonien e.V.. Check them out for (German) mid-/high-fantasy, mid-power LARP conventions.

So everything is ready, right? Wait, someone still has to write the script …. and this is how I decided to procrastinate writing the script with writing this blogpost.

It is written:

All smirky comments aside, we thought about it more than once to just abandon the project, to save time, to save money, to save effort. But we never really could accept that, so we started meeting weekly in mid-2018 to go one baby step at a time.

And here we are. With a brand new website, with an extremely polished prototype print run and plans to start a kickstarter campaign for production costs in the 3rd quarter of 2019. If the chronicle above holds true, you will hold your copy of Habeamus in your hands before Easter 2020. Subscribe now to our Newsletter, so you are the first to learn about our Kickstarter campaign and catch the attractive early bird or one of the limited “your face in the game” tiers.

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