April 2005I'm happy to say that my second short film, "E-ruption" won the "People's Choice" award for at the second annual "Kinetoscopic Wonderment Film Festival." Last year I took home "Best Film" and "People's Choice". The pressure is on for next year.
Following the patter of punny awards, this year's were "The Oscars". Mine was a golden hot dog with little arms holding a sword (as in an Oscar Meyer Weiner), while the two other awards were a golden trash can with eyes poking out (Oscar the Grouch) and a golden Oscar Fish (Last year's were the "Palm D'or" like Cannes, except they were actually door knobs on palms.)
I may add a picture at a later time when I'm not so damn tired!
For the moment I've moved just this page (the "Human" section) back to Movable Type until I work out a few things with Wordpress. My home page will remain on Wordpress as it is much simpler than this section.
I have finished my second short film. As with the last one I am both proud of it and embarrassed by it simultaneously. The complete lack of budget, equipment, and the tight time deadline again make the production values pretty much non-existent, but hopefully the content and the experience will hold enough value to get the viewer past that.
This year was a bumpy ride. I wasn't as organized I should have been, and there were 2 scenes that had to be re-shot. One was because the cameraman apparently forgot to turn the mic on, so there was no sound, and the other was because the cameraman thought that he could not find one of the scenes anywhere on any of the tapes. For the latter case, I re-shot the scene myself (my cameraman had a previous engagement) just days before the deadline, and edited it all together. As I knew would happen, he then later found the footage in an odd place on a tape.
The one thing I've learned is that I'm just going to have to edit my own films. This isn't because of any deficiency with my cameraman/editor, but more because I'm a picky bastard, and since no one is getting paid, I can't really expect too much time and effort from people. With both of my films, I ended up taking the "final edit" and doing quite a significant amount of additional editing only to realize it would have been much easier to have just done it myself from the beginning than it is to try and tweak or band-aid an existing full edit.
We got home from my band gig at around 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and I edited until 3:00 a.m. I then awoke at 11:45 .m. and edited until about 7:00 p.m. I was mostly finished at that point with just a few more tiny tweaks.
You can view it here.