"Writer's Block" honored with 2nd place award

So, this week has been a nightmare of essays, projects, and tests. That's right, finals week. However, I got a happy reprieve from the chaos when the on-campus video festival screened "Writer's Block," (the movie I shot, re-wrote, and reshot freshman year). What was even cooler was that the movie got 2nd place.

Now, obviously this festival isn't really Cannes (much to my professor's chagrin). A bunch of the other projects were just bad experimental films, and a couple of the others felt like they were written by high school students. There's no awards based on categories, such as directing or writing (which I didn't actually care about, but my professor pitched a mini-fit over that).

And the movie itself, though I do think it works, is really tough for me to watch. I just want to reach into the screen and re-direct the whole thing. I'm not happy with a few performances, and the sound could probably stand to be re-mixed.

But, at the risk of sounding petty, an award is an award, and in all honesty it's still sincerely pretty cool to have people honor the movie.

Plus, $30 gift card for Best Buy. I'm gonna try to save that for the next time I need to buy HD tapes. I'm gonna fail, but still.