Film Festivals!

Ok, so I just submitted Manhunter to 13 more film festivals, so here are the ones I might be able to get into.

Nashville Film Festival- Tennessee
Moab Film Festival- Utah
Terror Film Festival- Pennsylvania
Standing Rock Film Festival- Ohio
Imaginaria Film Festival- Italy
Exground Film Fest- Germany
Nocicortinfestival- Italy
Schit Film Festival- Switzerland
Starz Denver Film Festival- Colorado
Hawaii International Film Festival- Hawaii
Flint Film Festival- Michigan
Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival- Illinois
Beverly Hills Shorts Festival- California
Woodstock Film Festival- New York
Imago Film Festival- Portugal

I'll try and keep you updated on whether or not it gets in any of these!

Finished!

Well, after about 1 month of editing, I think that I finished the final copy of "Manhunter"! Just in time for the Lisbon Film Festival Deadline too! So right now I'm converting it to a good format for internet to upload it to "Reelport", a cool online film festival site that lets you submit to festivals online without any mail submissions. Just to let you know that its good, I watched it about 4 times today just to make sure the audio and video looked and sounded as good as I possibly could get them, and, well, it passed my very judgemental eye. There still might be extremely minor changes as I see new problems, but after watching it about 30 times in all, I think everything that I've salvaged the maximum I could from the useable footage. So now I'll mostly just be keeping updates on showings and festivals. Once I can figure out how to do screenshots from the movie in Final Cut Pro, I'll get some of those up. The total running time is 12 minutes and 48 seconds. If anyone would be willing to help me get a showing in their town, just leave a comment below with your email or some way to contact you and hopefully we could arrange something!

Reactions

Ok, while the whole thing isn't completely done yet, I have had a few people look at the rough cuts that are pretty close to what the actual thing is going to look like. I think so far, everyone has thought the ending was really good, and the beginning sets it up great. No one has said they don't like it, so this is giving me some hope for getting it in some film festivals! Today, I'm going to submit it to the Woodstock Film Festival in New York under the "Youth/Teen" category, so hopefully I'll get in there!

More Posters!

Here are a few more...

Poster!

Here are some posters that some people helped me make!

Pictures

Just some more that should hopefully get you excited.

Done! (Kinda)

Ok, so today I finally finished the rough cut of Manhunter, and man, its looking pretty good. Some kinks need to be worked out, but for the most part, its all coming together pretty nicely. Here are some things that need to be done...

- Minor Tweaks: Just making sure the clips look and sound as good as possible
- Color Correct: Basically change some of the colors so they aren't so bright and stuff
- Finish Scoring it: I think this is mostly done, but my musician might have a different song for me
- Fix Audio: Basically this is making sure the audio sounds good from one scene to the other
- Test Screening: I'm gonna have some friends over and see what they think of it, so I'll know what more to change
- Add the credits: Straightforward in itself, but I'll have to make sure I remember everyone

After all that, I should be done, and I'll start submitting it to some film festivals. I'm hoping to at least get into one so I can have the experience.

Sorry...

Sorry for no updates for the last week, but I've been pretty busy. I've got part of the movie edited, but the past few days I've been on vacation, that doesn't mean that I didn't think about it though. I bought a book called "How Not to Make a Short Film" and read it cover to cover. This really helped me think of what I need to reconsider when editing it. And well, I'm thinking it'll be the better. Keep here for updates!