So... how'd they convert your video to film? Or do they just have one of those projectors now that can hook up to a DVD player?

This is pretty much how David Lynch got started, so this could be the first step towards becoming a big time director!

Most excellent, TheReelTodd! It deserves publicity; you deserve recognition for it. It's very cool!! Let us know how it goes!!

Thanks, guys!

Well, I enjoyed the short films presented last night. Their projection system was very good quality. Only when I looked really hard and the conditions were just right, could I notice any signs that it was a digital projection. For the most part, the image quality was excellent!

There were other films with animation and composite imagery in them too. I thought that was really cool.

The theatre was almost completely packed with only a few scattered seats remaining empty. Not sure how many people it holds, but I would guess about 300 or 400. It is one of the smaller theatres there.

One thing I found odd, is that no one clapped when each production finished. It was just silent. I did not attend the showing of Just Turn Around last summer, but those who did attend told me that people generally clapped after each production. Hmm. The ONLY applause last night was following the showing of the cruelty to chickens documentary. There were a lot of activists and friends of the people involved in that production, and you could tell exactly where each of them were sitting following the documentary - they were the ones scattered about clapping.

The crowd there was pretty much the artsy type. I could tell that immediately because of the general atmosphere, the kind of audience The Little Theatre draws (they play mostly independent films) and just by watching people fill up the theatre. Yep - that was an artsy crowd... with several activists in there. There was a buzz about the chicken documentary even before the show started. I didn't care for the chicken documentary much, but on the technical end, it was produced with superb and absolute professional production quality. I told that to one of the producers on the way out of the theatre too - they really did an excellent job with it technically.

Well, the other films were generally artsy. There was very little dialogue, a lot of symbolism, strange imagery (loved that!), and unique presentations. I was actually worried about how an artsy audience would react to my very light hearted, silly, and just plain fun animated video. I mean, On the Cutting Room Floor of Oblivion is hardly the kind of thing that artsy folk care to see.

To my delight, the very quiet and motionless crowd laughed and chuckled during my production! Woo hoo - mission accomplished! They laughed! I hope it was for the right reasons!

As great as their digital projection system was, my production did not play with the quality I put in to it. The sound separation was messed up. I could clearly tell that the left audio channel was doubled to both left and right, and that the right audio channel was lost. My recording on miniDV is not like that so I'm not sure why they played it like that. It bothered me because I spent so much effort on specific right and left audio mixing and it just looked and sounded stupid when things on the right side of the screen had no sound effect accompanying them. Grrrrr! And for some reason, I looked VERY grainy during my intro stop-motion dance sequence. I mean I looked like I had dirt peppered on me! I was very embarrassed by that. I hoped that the audience thought that was on purpose and part of the look. The source video file is not nearly that grainy. On the computer, and when played on a TV, I do not appear very grainy at all. Their system really made the graininess stand out like a sore thump. Bummer.

Like an excited kid, I took some quick photos of my production playing with my communicator's built-in camera. Unfortunately, the camera quality is not very good and the photos look really bad. You can hardly even tell that it's taken in a theatre. Oh well. I'll share them anyway.

That red dot on the left is actually the emergency exit sign. Great image quality my com-cam has, eh?
This image is just as the words "On the Cutting..." were about to fall in to place - my tongue

KiaPurity Wrote:Your picture urls have the tag stuck in them. ^^; Taking the tags out, it still didn't show up for me. x_x Edit-- Oh, you fixed it.

He he - yeah. You must have seen that just as I posted it. Yep, quickly fixed it. Thanks though. I appreciate it!

yeah, congratulations on getting your work on the big screen. good job!

i've been shownig a few of my friends some of your movies, they all love them.

so, your crowd of fans has just grown some more.

Sketch Wrote:Many congrats on the showing Todd.

Thank you!

Prankster bit Wrote:yeah, congratulations on getting your work on the big screen. good job! i've been shownig a few of my friends some of your movies, they all love them. so, your crowd of fans has just grown some more.

Hey - thanks! Mighty cool of you to show my productions to others! I'm so glad your friends enjoy them!

dctron Wrote:Great Video. I really enjoyed it. Must have been great to see it on the big screen.

Thanks! And yeah - it was really cool to see it on the big screen, in front of an audience!

Kudos to you, Todd!!!

I know the feeling of having something you've made being shown on the big screen. It's a great thing and something that not EVERYONE can say they've done!

I thoroughly enjoyed your video and would love to have been there in support!

Way to go! Maybe one day we'll get to work together!

Just remember us here at the Sector when you move onto Hollywood!

Hooooorayyy... forrrr.. Holly-wooood!!! doot-doo-doot-doooot-doot-doo-doooooot

Yes, sir! A splendid 'ole production! Would've been cool to see it on the big screen. Next time it will be on Dolby Digital/THX equipped auditorium, on a screen 6-stories high. Oooh, the IMAX!

Thanks for sharing the tidbits of what went on there! Was a fun read.

Yes, you hold regular Anti-Formatting riots and have a 200-acre sanctuary where you take all the discarded PCs you can find and boot them back up.

Or you could easily protest and go get a bucket of KFC chicken.

MMMMM.... with gravey potatoes and biscuts. Yummie!