With the help of Brad the film god of all he surveys, we will have the first annual film tech awards!!! After all, Talk is cheap, and so am I.

While I have many categories already in mind, I would like to get suggestions from the rest of you. ANY SUGGESTION IS A GOOD ONE. These awards will be less about seriousness, and more about our having to put up with so much crap that is doled out to us with or without our consent.

We of course also want to recognize totally positive achievements in film as well.

As a courtesy, please do not discuss any actual MOVIES on this particular forum, instead use it for Q and A regarding the awards themselves.

The ballots will be emailed out to all film tech members close to the first of the year, or perhaps after it. Ballots will have to be returned by FEBURARY ONE, 2003.

The awards will be announce at SHOWEST in March 2003. After showest is over, the awards will be posted here. If you want to hear them live you have to come to the FILM TECH FISH AND MARTINI FEST at showest.

Winners and or in many cases LOSERS will be given either a really nice certificate or in the losers cases will be given a cheaply copied version with the losers name drawn in crayon by my seven year old daughter.

I am going to limit the number of categories, but would like to very much like to hear what categories you all as members would like to see.

SO far I have....

Worst Vin Diesel movie of the year,
Best Vin Diesel movie of the year... (both count as losers)...
Worst waste of time if you paid money to see this movie award...

and so on...

Let's see what you all can come up with??

Dave

There will be no FISH and martini. Martini sure (that way Bob will certainly join us), but this year I say we make it COW and martini night.

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What are the awards for? Like, if "XXX" wins "Worst Vin Diesel Movie" then does Vin Diesel get a film-tech shirt??

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These awards will be less about seriousness, and more about our having to put up with so much crap that is doled out to us with or without our consent.

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Still confused.

Will people win the award if they are the ones that choose the winner of the category? Will people win if they submit a category and something wins for it? Is the winner the person who votes for the most correct/winners in the entire contest? If that's the case, couldn't everyone collaborate and vote for the same thing and that way everyone gets a film-tech shirt? What is a horse shoe? What does a horse shoe do? Are there any horse socks? Is anybody listening to me???

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And maybe: Worst lab splice of the year (I have one to nominate) and possibly worst reel-change scene of the year (e.g. dialogue, music, quick cuts, etc. carrying over reel change).

I think that once the final categories are sent out in the form of a ballot, then the person who comes CLOSEST to getting them all right gets the TSHIRT.

The producers or technical people if identifiable who win the most of our infuriation will recieve stern warnings to please STOP IT.. in the form of a cheap crayon produced piece of used paper.

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Film-Techer Whose Film Reviews Are Most Likely To Contain More Comments About Presentation Quality Than About The Actual Movie Being Reviewed

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I read this comment in bold first before reading the opening of your post and thought you were picking on me there. I typically make at least one comment about presentation quality in each movie review post.

How about a "hair length" Film-Tech award. Anyone else here got hair longer than mine? Mine is at least 33 inches at the moment. I'm sure I can beat any guys on here in that department.

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Already turned down doing a really good play so I can be there. hale theater is doing BIG RIVER, and in the theater we will actually have a river!!! Its all in the round, and the stage will be converted from its circular up and down quadrants to an 18 inch deep river covering the whole thing. It should be about 17 thousand gallons of water. We are getting ready to start the reinforcements to the stage in order to haul this heavy load. Then the great part is the river itself will be covered up completely, then when its time for the river, we just hoist it up into the rafters by two wenches.

AND I AM GIVING THIS UP FOR A DRINK NITE!!! It better be good!

Most injuries received while doing film work...

You HAVE to brag about the injuries!

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