Screening

Screening went great - audience liked the flick - particularly the women. Saw some other short films that have won awards and crap at other little festivals and was not very impressed. Once was decent, but all the others were trash....a couple were truly awful. It made my 508 look good, amongst a suburban, inherently un-arty, crowd. All were shot on digital, had terrible sound, pretty good music, and for the most part, atrocious acting. But it felt like a mini film festival, people asked good questions afterwards - how many takes do you do? How long was the shoot? How long did it take to edit? How did you shoot it? What was the hardest element of making a short film? How did you come up with the idea?

It's funny, the black and white, shot on film thing of 508 really made the film stand out amongst the other ones. Not something I would have thought of. I suggest anyone semi-proud of their 508 should submit it to short festivals and get it seen. They sort of fly under the radar and can really stand out. It made me glad to be at USC because the peeps at USC are way more talented than the folks out in the real world. Please don't jump all over me on this point, I'm sure there are people not as USC that are very talented, but as an average, mean, type of comparison....there's a reason people got into the damn school.