Woody Cavenaugh

Tonight's teams learned a great deal from last night's teams. Tonight's teams learned the lesson of swag. "Use any gimmic to Put your work into the audience's minds." Hundreds of Hershie kisses each one has a flag glued to the old one; "vote for Foil".

We saw T-shirts, Crew IDs, the whole 9 yards. I have to hand it to them. It was a brilliant idea. The crowd seems smaller tonight, though its sold out Just like last night. It's a good feeling to know that there is so much interest in indie film in this area.
Our direct competition, the other mocumentary is, last tonight. This could be bad for us, especially if their entry is good. I'm glad I figured out how to dim the screen, the Acer did that automatically.

Later that night...

We came into Wednesday night feeling like we had a real serious shot at winning it all. Of the 12 we saw tonight we feel like we have a real shot against all of them except one. Some of the real contenders missed the deadline so they aren't competition at all. The other mocumentary wasn't all that. It started strong, became a narriative, and ended badly. We felt like we could take the guys who had access to an airplane for their action adventure, fortunately they didn't qualify for the judging. We thought we might still have a shot against the two muscisians who happened to draw "musical". Fortunately for us, they didn't make it in time to be judged either. If there was a second place (and sadly there isn't), it would be ours.

Yes, I know that I am letting a team's flash and giggle distract me from the truth of their piece. However if you work in the computer annimation and visual effects industry, you have access to a high end Avid editing system, and just happen to by some dumb luck choose "Superhero", you have a clear and present advantage against the rank and file of the contestants.

I'd be pretty pissed off were it not for the fact that it was so damn cool looking.

*sigh*
I wish I had access to a seven foot tall robot suit....