Musings of an Idiot

FIVE premiere

First up I have to confess that I have just woken up from a 15 hour 'nap' - I lay down to take a 1 hour nap after work yesterday and I woke up to find it is 6.30 in the morning now. I feel super fresh and energetic. :-)

The premiere of 'FIVE' on Friday night was exciting. I was there at the theatre by 10.00PM and there were only 2 other people there and I was thinking 'Shit, no one will actually show up.'. So you can imagine by excitement when 55 people showed up before the movie started. I was thrilled beyond words as it was a good sized audience for that time of the night and that too on a long holiday weekend. I was also happy that I did not have a nervous breakdown while the movie was actually screening. There were some technical hiccups initially with the sound and it took a good 5-10 minutes for the cinema to sort out sound while the movie was still screening. The other thing which was annoying was that the theatre had a 2.0 setup while the DVD was a 5.1 mix, so the music sounded loud and overbearing and some of the audio was getting muffled because everything was being mixed down to the front speakers. But technical issues aside, the feedback I got after the movie was mainly positive and the audience did come out of the theatre buzzing, so that's always a nice thing to see.

I didn't attend the Saturday screenings - i was working the day shift while I was taking a 'nap' in the evening. But I did pop down to theatre in the morning to do a quick sound check, to make sure that the movie experience would be as good as it could be. The word I got back from someone who attended the Saturday morning screening is that there were about 15-20 people in the audience. I don't know what the numbers were for the evening session but will find out soon enough.

That's the lot from me for now.
Amit

UPDATE - It seems that there were 7-10 people in the last screening and in between all the good and constructive feedback I have been getting about the movie - I had someone whammy me by saying that the movie felt amateurish (which inspite of my bravest face and the attitude that everyone is entitled to their opinion - really hurts because that's one of the worst things you can hear as a film maker). But oh well - that's the nature of the game.

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posted by Amit @ 7:05 AM