The Charlies.

Just wanted to make an official announcement that on Thursday April 19th 3x took home first place at the Charlie Awards along with merits for direction, editing, and cinematography. Congratulations to the cast and crew (and all the friends who put up with everything!). All that hard work finally has paid off.

Three of the Finest Student Filmmakers in Waterloo Region
(and the greatest teacher on the face of the planet!)

Surprise Screening.

Well today we were in for quite a surprise. I had been editing in the Radio room first period because I was too lazy to get off my butt and move into the editing room, and so when period 2 rolled around I decided to see how crowded the video editing room was and go move in again.

When I got there I was told by Alex that Douglas was showing his grade 10 class 3x and that Nate was in there as well.

Naturally we ran over to see what was going down.

We were only a few seconds late, and we sat down and watched the film… again.

When the film finished, once again, no one did a thing until the film was completely over.

We then had an incredibly constructive discussion with the whole class. I was shocked with how well this grade 10 class managed to grasp the film and were able to deconstruct it. The most shocking thing was how all the women in the class understood it completely and the only people who had real troubles with it were the boys… who all wanted action movies. When I thought about it I wasn’t all that surprised, but I never thought that these young 15 year olds would fully understand the film.

The general consensus was the class was confused, but not in the same was as Douglas was. They all thought (or at least said that) everything came together in the end and the film was wrapped up.

It also gave us a real fresh look at where the film is flawed and where we need to go back and fix things.

Special thanks to “Mandy” who offered a lot of insight into just what exactly was going on inside of people during the film, even if she hated Paris with a fiery passion.

We also had Charlie selections today. The two films that will be going are 3x and The Day After the Night Before (Martina and Alex’s film). We both have a lot of work to do, but I think it will be a good showing. Congratulations ladies.

Oh and for the record: I do feel bad for Paris.

A Success.

Today we showed the film to the class.

We were all so incredibly nervous. We didn’t know how people were going to react.

When we got to the end credits and no one said a word or made a sound until the film was finally fully completed (and the title rolled up) that’s when I knew we did it. We pulled it off.

Alex and Kay had tears in their eyes. My heart was pounding so hard I thought I may go into cardiac arrest.

We still have a lot of work to do before next week but all in all it was an incredible success.

Congratulations.

Thanks to everyone who made the film a success. We couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help.

But alas, I have to run as I’ve got some editing to do…

I will try and post the soundtrack as soon as possible for everyone’s listening pleasure.

Deleted!

Well you won’t believe it. I accidently rebooted my computer with my hard-drive still plugged in and managed to delete ALL of 3x… everything is gone. And to make matters worse I can’t find all the tapes.

Looks like we have a few more re-shoots ahead of us.

Man, what a day.