For the dozen or so actual followers that I have right now, I apologize for not keeping up with this blog. Perhaps it's good that I'm not keeping this so-up-to-date that it become like one of the obsessive posters on Facebook who just eventually gets blocked. Though I did intentionally slow down my posting on Facebook, I didn't intentionally slow down my production blog on Peace & Riot.
Monday, October 17th was a big day for the movie. It's the first time we screened it for anyone. Sure the producers, color correction folks, composer and sound mixer have been watching it all the time, but the majority of our cast and crew had no idea what the movie was shaping up to be.
I don't want to give any spoilers, but I will say that I'm happy with the movie. And even though we are still making small changes, the majority of the audience was happy with it too.
It was good to show people how their hard work paid off. It was good to have friends and family share that experience with us.
I was actually planning on giving this great speech at the beginning. I was going to thank specific people for specific events. But when I got the chance, I got too nervous. My nerves actually kicked in when the crowd swelled to about 50. Even though I knew we were having over 70 people show up, once I saw more than about 50 people I started to get this feeling like "what if they don't get it?"
They got it. Our audience was a mixture of men and women. From 15 to 75 years of age. They all laughed when they were supposed to (well some of them didn't laugh at all my jokes) they got quite when it got important, but they all enjoyed themselves.
When you make a movie, you're basically saying "I want to tell you a story for 89 minutes. But the good thing is, I've got these other really talented folks who are going to help me tell the story. Hopefully it's a good experience."
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