Jul 21 2006
World Premiere of “I Want It All”
I directed my first short film on April 9th, 2006. It’s called I Want It All. My girlfriend, Jenny Higgins, wrote the script. The final sound mix and colour correction were completed this week. It’s done. Tomorrow it’s going to play at a film festival. I’m tired.
There’s now a brand-new website dedicated to the all the happenings of independent filmmaker, Phillip Cairns. Guess what’s it’s called? Yup, you guessed it: MudSongs.org. It’s still under construction, but it’s where you’ll find all the latest breaking exciting news about me and my movie.
I’m going to take a nap now. See ya.
When will it be at my local theater where I can see it?
My short film played very well to the audience. It was a complete success. Every element that I laboured over for hours, worked. The audience laughed in all the right places and seemed to have a good time watching it, which is all I was looking to accomplish with it. Just a short, fun, silly little movie, something to laugh it. Having watched the film 200 billion times during post-production, I couldn’t judge whether it was effective or not. But I went with my instincts and hoped they paid off, and they did. When a couple hundred people laugh at something you wanted them to laugh at, even when it’s just a goofy short film about macaroni, it’s gratifying.
There were about 60 minutes of short films shown during the screening, and mine was the second-last one shown. Some of the movies in the middle we’re kind of slow; they began to drag. But when my movie came up, the audience seemed to wake up and come to life. I was very pleased with the audience reaction.
I’ll give a full report on my festival experience at Mud Songs later in the week after I’ve rested. Thinking about my next movie now…
August 10th, 2006.
I’m very close to being officially completely sick of my movie now. Well, okay… not so much the movie, but the post-production process. It has been — and continues to be — one frustration after another. I thought editing the movie and putting it all together would be the best part of the process, the part where I really get down to business and make a movie. But by the time I finished the film, I was just glad to have the experience behind me. The final cut of the film is okay; I can live with it.
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