Back again! Okay, it's been a little while since I last updated but yesterday, my Dissertation was submitted (and completed two days before that) so the pressure has died a little and I have the opportunity to take a breather for a moment!
As of late, there hasn't been any recent news in order to make a new screening but now that our recent bulk of a 10 000 word essay is out of the way (to put it lightly), we'll be able to think about a screening much more closely.
Yesterday, I recieved some feedback of my film - much needed I have to say - and the verdict that it was very well told. The painted in tail didn't fail to impress, the camerawork and focus was praised and generally was considered to be a well made piece of work.
More importantly, the negative feedback was enough for me to work from. The narration was considered a bit flat and maybe should have been played down a little more and the gaps in between the scenes went on a little too long.
The latter will be the easiest to sort out as there are a few outstanding gaps in some of the shots but the narration will be a little more difficult. Since I have to cut out the phallic-spade-handle shot for the museum, other editing tweeks can be done. I could possibly leave the narration as it is for the museum's copy and cut it down for the other cut. Alternatively, I could follow on from a suggestion mentioned in feedback and test a few voices over the next week to see how they sound, considering as to whether they would be suitable or not.
It's difficult to say where it will be shown now but I suspect in the College's media centre. It would be good to show it at the courtyard but I don't know the likelihood of that happening. I
t's not impossible as there were talks of such a thing happening on the day things went wrong. I'm certain that it won't have anything to do with Borderlines film festival - bit of a pity as its a decent outlet but Gilliam's behaviour was completely out of order.
Anyway, keep watching this space!
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Borderlines...the aftermath...
Right. Yesterday was the Borderlines film festival showing of the HCA students films, including Jack O Kent. For those of you who don't know, here's how it went;
The first and second year films were shown and all of them got a good reception from a packed audience. George's exploitation film in particular got the most laughs so it clearly achieved what it set out to do. By en large, things had gone well! David Gilliam, the general manager of the event took time in the pauses to give criticism to the films which people were generally nonplussed by as it wasn't his place to do so. Despite this, things had gone well as had been hoped.
However, when it came to the showing of Jack O Kent, Kaz Szostak's film of "Brownie" and Dave Jones's - justifiably - hyped film "Farises", there was a technical problem. The DVD with them on (which had been recently burned along with two other short photography films) didn't work on the courtyard DVD player and Dave connected his laptop to the projector as a substitute. Unfortunately, the DVD was eaten up by the laptop and it wasn't possible to play. Unfortunate and disappointing incident but nobody's fault.
However, when David Gilliam told the audience of the technical problem that was occurring, he took time to behave in the most appalling way possible and place the blame on us (Kaz, Dave and myself) for "altering" our work. Jo defended us, stating that we had worked hard and how wrong he was. The audience as a consequence broke into applaud and it was both satisfying and heartwarming?...yeah, heartwarming! to see how everyone was on our side. Everyone was extremely angry with the conduct of Gilliam and it was also satisfying to see him give everyone a wide berth afterwards.
Dave has consequently dissasociated both wind up world films and "Farises" from Borderlines and plans will be drawn up for another screening to take place.
The event wasn't a total write off mind as all the films that WERE shown were brilliant and got some great audience response. It was also good to see everybody on the same side.
over and out for the time being, watch this space...
The first and second year films were shown and all of them got a good reception from a packed audience. George's exploitation film in particular got the most laughs so it clearly achieved what it set out to do. By en large, things had gone well! David Gilliam, the general manager of the event took time in the pauses to give criticism to the films which people were generally nonplussed by as it wasn't his place to do so. Despite this, things had gone well as had been hoped.
However, when it came to the showing of Jack O Kent, Kaz Szostak's film of "Brownie" and Dave Jones's - justifiably - hyped film "Farises", there was a technical problem. The DVD with them on (which had been recently burned along with two other short photography films) didn't work on the courtyard DVD player and Dave connected his laptop to the projector as a substitute. Unfortunately, the DVD was eaten up by the laptop and it wasn't possible to play. Unfortunate and disappointing incident but nobody's fault.
However, when David Gilliam told the audience of the technical problem that was occurring, he took time to behave in the most appalling way possible and place the blame on us (Kaz, Dave and myself) for "altering" our work. Jo defended us, stating that we had worked hard and how wrong he was. The audience as a consequence broke into applaud and it was both satisfying and heartwarming?...yeah, heartwarming! to see how everyone was on our side. Everyone was extremely angry with the conduct of Gilliam and it was also satisfying to see him give everyone a wide berth afterwards.
Dave has consequently dissasociated both wind up world films and "Farises" from Borderlines and plans will be drawn up for another screening to take place.
The event wasn't a total write off mind as all the films that WERE shown were brilliant and got some great audience response. It was also good to see everybody on the same side.
over and out for the time being, watch this space...
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