The Reveal

Well, here it is everyone; the reveal. The moment you all have been waiting for. Let Go and Let God has officially been posted online to Youtube.com. You can view the film below!

I was going to be submitting the film to the Johnstown Film Festival but I exceeded the 30 minute time limit. That being, I will now be submitting my film to the Great Lakes International Film Festival under the Documentary Short category.  Thank you all for your support!

Showcase Reflection

Last Saturday, the third of December was our showcase day for the 14 documentaries in my Broadcast Communications Capstone class.  I got there a little after 3:30 to watch Alyssa Hanna’s and Drew Trifelos’ films. They both traveled to other countries as well (Israel and Greece).  Both, I thought, were very well done and I really enjoyed watching both.

My mother and grandmother arrived at about 4:50, which was an adventure on its own, trying to direct them over the phone over where to go and having them arrive only 10 minutes before we were set to go. But that turned out well I suppose. I had about 40 people in attendance for our session (myself and Jeff Houser) including six other Jamaica teammates, Reverend Jim Mohr and my great friends Travis Kelly and Mike Gorman! It was very nice having so many supportive friends in attendance. One thing I wish though is that more classmates from Capstone could have been there to help support me. Nonetheless though, it went very well.

My film went first in the two film session and it received a lot of applause at the end. Normally I would fear that it was just polite applause but I received a lot of praise for it from audience members and I do not think that was the case.  My film did seem a bit dark though, definitely darker than how it always looked on computer monitors.  But, it’s a learning experience and i can expect that for next time. It was very nice listening to the audience laugh at parts of the film that I spent so much time editing, i forgot they were even funny; so that was cool.

Jeff (left) and I after the films showed

After both films, Jeff and I went up front to answer any questions the audience had and I felt very bad that no one asked him any questions.  Looking back, I wish I would have asked him one, because I actually did have a question for him. Over all though, it was a really great experience, although not quite like what I expected.