Successful Screening

Last night's screening of our wee short film went pretty well. At least, the second screening did. Somehow the disc we had (DVD) had gotten really badly scratched between 8am and 6pm, so at the first screening there was much skipping in the second half of the movie. Luckily we had a back-up disc, so we swapped it out (with a short delay), and the film finished OK. We still don't know how the disc got so badly scratched, given that it was in a cover all day, but at least we had a backup (3 backups actually). The second screening was to about 50-55 people (in the 60 seat cinema I was in - there were also people watching it in the 30 seater), and there was a very positive response. People laughed at (most of) the jokes, and even seemed a little creeped out by a couple of the death scenes. It was a great way to finish a project - with some positive feedback - and I'm very, very glad that I no longer have to work on that film. It ended up being 46 minutes long - we cut it back quite ruthlessly to get it as fast-paced as possible. We even cut out a whole scene at the start, just to get things moving more quickly. Anyways, I am much relieved to have that over and done with. I am looking forward to watching some of the cast and crew interviews that some enthused students recorded last night, and deleting the ridiculous 170gb project off the hard drive. Oh, and I've changed the blog to black, since Mundens wrote about Blackle. Small steps, but positive ones.