cucalorus paper excerpt.

"I moved to Wilmington a little over a year ago now. I made the transition to a new city, a new state even, because of the things I had heard about Wilmington's film industry. I knew only one person when I first moved here and it was the first time I had ever moved somewhere so isolated from people I knew. I took advantage of being friendless (having no social life/distractions) to focus on jumping into anything that had to do with film. I figured that I could get my feet wet in this film community and make friends involved with film as well. It was through a group I joined on campus, Flicker Film Society, that I first learned about the Cucalorus Film Festival, the kids in the group described it as some magical event that took place here in my new town every year, I was overwhelmed with excitement from the first time I heard about it. With no hesitation, I immediately asked around everywhere on how to get involved with the festival or even how to get a pass to it. I ultimately found out that you could volunteer to work at the festival and in return you would get passes to most everything involved. This was perfect for me, I wanted to get involved, I wanted to see the films, and I wanted to meet people. I can honestly say it was everything I could have hoped for and more. Cucalorus helped me find my identity in Wilmington."

Cucalorus

CUCALORUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a lot of plans for the wonderful time of the year! I took off the entire week mainly because I am a part of the staff.. i wanted to see as much as i could, but only ended up seeing a group of shorts and 2 features. I definitely wanted to see Chip's premiere and even made arrangements so that I could go but being the procrastinator I am i waited till right before the screening to get my ticket and it was sold out. other than that i was planning to spend most of the festival checking, distributing, and monitoring passes! Fun right? but awesome. I love Cucalorus and I'm sure you'll be able to see that in my paper.

Shooting for project three.

Shooting our music video was so much fun, we had planned a lot so it was easy. It also didn't hurt that our actors were my two best friends! They were so awesome too! In the middle of October (usually nice weather) when we went to shoot our first day it was freeeeeeeeeeeeeeezing and raining and we were on the beach. Laura our actress was wearing a tiny mini-dress and i swear it must have been 50 degrees. we all took turns huddling in Courtney's jeep when we weren't needed filming. Her and Nick our actor, were so cooperative, I thought it was awesome they didn't even complain except when we were all shivering our asses off together. It was no secret we were all miserable, but we got through it and that particular footage actually ended up being our best. The next day was much much better, the weather was nicer and we found an awesome alley to do our shooting in near Carolina beach.. the colors were perfect. evan even got a little risky and climbed on top of one of the buildings to get an overhead shot of them dancing in the alley, we were all really excited about that shot. Then we moved to the middle of the woods where designed a lot of shots and tried a lot of new things with the exposure and frame rates and such. Over all the experience was awesome, everyone was so cooperative and excited. Our actors looked awesome and we had a great time throughout it all.

Installation idea.

I'm a little late on this blog, but the installation idea i HAD before I got put into Evan's group was to do a piece on mass media and personalities. LIke using a projection of facebook or myspace and putting the subject in front of their page and have them make a statement that would be on their main page, then add someone else, and then someone else, and giving information like their favorite song or music video at the moment so it just ends up getting noisier and noisier until its almost unbearable to hear.. and the pages are flashing like strobe lights and the people are talking and talking and their songs are playing and their voices are just overbearing and then all of a sudden all black and a spotlight on one person asking a simple question like 'what am i' or something like that to illustrate the confusion youth has today on their individuality because their surrounded by so much technological clutter that persuades them and guides them among adolescence.

MiCrocinemA

The idea about screening experimental films that are out of the public limelight has been an issue going on for forever (obviously) so it says in the article.. but i think that the opportunity to see these films in a unique space outside of your average cinema can be a lot of fun, for instance jengo's here in wilmington, holding cucalorus.. cucalorus is awesome.. its got this atmosphere of energy where you can just feel everyone's enthusiasm for underground cinema around you.. it makes the experience so much more different than just your average going to sit down in the theater and then leaving, like when you see mainstream films.

I think whats cool is that Carolyn and I were talking in the hall one day before class about the article, specifically where they explain the kind of "portable drive in theater" like thing where people find out the information of where the films will be projected and you tune into the station to hear it.. i think that sounds like a lot of fun.. and so creative.. carolyn and i were saying we want to do this around wilmington some time.