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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 9:15 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Preparing For The Weekend
I did some tests today with the DVD player in my car for the Halloween Drive-In underground film festival on Sunday. I bought nine movies for the festival yesterday. Everything checks out, and we are ready. There are just a few notes, however. I'm not 100% sure that we will have our underground film festival on time, because of its small size. Also, I've been having trouble getting in touch with everyone. Despite this, I'll know for sure tomorrow. My friend Sarah was sick last weekend, and if she is still sick, or anyone is sick, we may have to postpone it. There will be four to five of us in a small car for an extended period of time; if one person is sick, we are all going to get sick. Thus, there are health concerns. Additionally, because of the tiny attendance defined by the constraints of a car, if a single person cannot make it, it's going to dramatically effect the outcome. If it turns out to be just me and a model watching movies in a car, it's more like parking or a date, and that's not what the Halloween Drive-In is supposed to be. If it is postponed, we might have it weeks, or even months, after Halloween. Ah, but the picture and sound quality sure is nice from the Sony FX-820. It's better than going to the cinema, is ways, and a whole lot more comfortable (cars, after all, are designed for people to be seated in them for an extended time over a wide variety of traveling conditions. Car seating will beat out cinema seating every time). Also, it turns out that I didn't have any mounting issues with the DVD player. As long as the car is level, or the nose is low, the DVD player sits nicely on top of the dash.
It's just ironic that this simpler, "easy" underground film festival is tougher to pull off than the upcoming Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival. The Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival is more flexible, with attendance roughly equivalent to the attendance enjoyed by the first Coffeehouse Film Review monthly film festivals (CFR, which became the TFR, or The Tampa Film Review). With higher attendance numbers and more space, the success of the underground film festival does not hinge on every single person showing up. If I have to postpone the Halloween Drive-In, I'll at least get everything right.
If I don't do this on Sunday, I will be spending Sunday and Monday converting my old DJ Wiz Kid and DJ Frontier Cassette Program Releases to MP3 programs (yes, there are data drops with the old computers, but I am digging listening to them while I work despite the occasional glitch from the conversion on the old machines. I can't release them that way, but I can listen to them. I just have to keep them from getting out and circulating, because they can never be "official" releases. Some of them need editing for content, too. My programs are good, even the first ones), and will be preparing my studio for the return of models and actors.
Ann just called, and asked if I was attending the screening at 11PM tonight for the indie film Burial At Sea, which has been renamed to "something" island, I think (I can't recall what the name was changed to, and Adrian should have sent me a press release). I told Chris Woods a few days ago that it would be amusing if they had named it Death Island, and we were laughing about that. For the record, it is not named Death Island (this I am sure of). Death Island is a Danford / Savini film in the works. Regarding tonight's premier, I can't make it. Too bad. Ann told me that she might not make it, either, because she is acting in a Tampa indie film tomorrow for another 48 hour film competition. I did, however, make some suggestions to her regarding her spy outfit that she was putting together.
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