Went To A Movie Screening …
We went to the A3F screening last night. The theater for the HM was no where near filled. We saw 17 short films - mine included. I did not like the quality of the film on a large screen. I don’t know if they were compressed or what but on our large screen TV - the film was clear and crisp. Other than that, it looked and sounded pretty good. We then watched the Top 20. There were, in my opinion, only a couple films I thought worthy of noting. I felt many of them very poor quality in acting, filming, etc - and cannot figure out how they got the scores. That is something I really need to find out - voting criteria. If you can understand that - you can adapt. All in all though, I’m very happy with what we did. We learned a lot of things for our next films. We aren’t really in the film biz to be the hit of AZ. We want to see our screenplay come to life and that’s what we accomplished.
One other note - it seems like the A3F has found that trying to make a quality film in 24 hours is near impossible. They are thinking of extending their 48 hour challenge to 72 hours. This will insure that they get some quality films.