"Dave Watterson" <
forums@theiac.org.uk> wrote:
The IAC competition gives each entrant a written comment from judges on
each
of their entries.
The length and quality of notes is variable.
Would anyone care to comment on the notes you got?
Be anonymous if you like by inventing a name and changing details so that
your film cannot be identified.
Dave
I don't want to be anonymous. I have no reasons to be anonymous.
I was very pleased with the written comments from the judges.
In "More Sex, Please" (one minute movie) the judges said : "the only weakness
was the glimpse into the Sperm Cabin through the door". Congratulations,
judges ! Very well observed.
"The Safe" is another one minute movie. The judges wrote : "We were a little
uneasy that the joke depended on making fun of a disability. It can't be
easy being cross-eyed". My apologies, judges ! It's good to tell me. Next
time I will be more careful. Your comments have helped me. I really mean
it ! I feel embarassed !
In my third one minute movie called "Sweetie" a pussy-cat eats a part of
the organs of a dog. The judges wrote : "It worked very well and although
some may view it as bad taste, we enjoyed the joke very much". I expected
it a little bit. The English are cat-lovers and/or dog-lovers. The joke was
perhaps a little bit hard for dog-lovers. I found the inpiration in a Croation
cartoon that won an international festival in Belgium. Sorry, dog-lovers
!
The final judges' comments wrote about "Until You Smile", the film about
my English friend and musical entertainer, the following thing : "We need
to know more about him earlier on (rather than about his family) to appreciate
him..." and "We didn't see his wife -who was suddenly no longer mentioned
so one is left to wonder what happened to her." I don't agree with these
comments. The things that Brian Higbee tells us about his father and sister
in the beginning of the film are functional. For instance he says that his
father played the piano and that he sang songs... His father had sense of
humour... There is also a contradiction in these comments. I showed a black
and white photograph of his wife Cynthia Higbee and I said that they moved
into Devon. But why did the final judges want to know what happened to her
? It is a film about him in the first place. It's about the singer and entertainer
Brian Higbee.
I agreed with the follwing thing : "It takes a while to know what's it about".
In my new version, that was made after the deadline (4th January 2006), the
viewers already know from the beginning on what the film is about.
I must say that I was very pleased with th judges' comments in general. Also
Samuel Faict, the young filmmaker of my club, will be very pleased. The comments
on his films will encourage him to make even better films.
I don't take part in Biaff to win silver or gold or even more, but also to
know what other people (judges) may think about my films. Sometimes there
is nonsense in these comments, but most of the time the judges are right.