As I wrote earlier, on what would have been my mum’s 76th birthday, I was poking around on Meetup, which led me to this film festval. It also led me to the Movie Makers Unite meetup where Mr. Hell Goes to Frogtown received its first public performance.
The group’s leader posted to the Meetup today, that they should show up and support me. This is after actually seeing the thing. I am humbled by the generousity of spirit that would do this.
For those who were there, well, the web mix doesn’t quite work on the big screen, I do concede. And the subject matter is what it is. One of the other film makers watched Mr. Hell on the web and liked it. I’ve also gotten some posititive feedback from women about the piece, so someone’s watching and liking it enough to write me. (It would be nice if they wrote something on the site itself, but whatever. I’m working at staying positive about the blogging and software side of this contest.
One question which made me almost laugh and cry was a comment, “too bad you didn’t green screen it.” Truth be told, I shot this before the switch from Blue Screen to Green, Digi-beta may have been around, but this pre-dates digital video by several years. Final Cut was still a dream on someone’s PC. Kennedy is timeless, always topical and in the news, it confuses folks
Anyway, I had a great time at the film festival and look forward to making movies with these people.
