Last week the junior film majors put on a fake awards show in Funk 'n Waffles. If you don't know what that is, you'll find out soon enough. I hadn't seen any of the juniors' works since Fall sophomore year, so I was excited. There are always a few people who make interesting stuff, but I was happy to be surprised by a few. Justin G did a documentary on a live bait vendor who owns the worm vending machines you find outside sometimes in Syracuse. Justin is always funny so it was cool to watch. Scott P always does narrative it seems, and he's a really good story-teller. I'm no critic so this is just an update. : )
The coolest thing is they set up the show themselves. They have the film faculty's help but it's mostly just a group of juniors who want to make stuff for a reason (a show). It gets redundant if everything you make just goes into the Portfolio file on your desktop, you want to show it off! Afterwards we went out to get dinner with everyone and we started talking about involving more than just film majors. The computer art organization, ECARO, tries to get shows or cross-major critiques going, but it's hard and barely anyone comes to the meetings. It would be great to have us all combine again like we were freshman year and put something together, an event or contest or anything, just to show what we can do. Things like that are great motivation for students, because otherwise it's just too easy to leave things unfinished.
The Fruit Awards was great, though. They had fruit tied in gold, silver and bronze ribbons and handed them out. Phil was the "winner" and he made a video with a speech, which really was like the video of Hansel in Zoolander. "The winner is PHIL.......PHIL........PHIL is the winner..." with the camera zooming in and out and a dumb smile glued onto his face. It's also great just to see the senses of humor in Transmedia. It's such a crazy field we have to be able to laugh at everything and ourselves.
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