This is the life I lead. Too much pressure sometimes.
Claudia Spinelli from Nickelodeon was unimpressed. She said they couldn't take anything home with them, so all the work I'd done was a negative instead of a positive. She didn't want to look at more than one pitch, she wanted something quick and simple. So she rushed through it without much interest, then told me that my work was either derivative in art style, way too complicated or too Adult Swim. Hm.
Depressing. Pitching to Adult Swim next.
Gave a copy of Deleted Magic to R2D2 himself, Kenny Baker. His wife was there, who is the same height as him. Told him I loved him in Time Bandits - I know that's his favorite of his own films. Rena Owen was there too - I told her I enjoyed her work and Once Were Warriors is a classic.
On saturday I gave Deleted Magic to the man himself, Billy Dee Williams.
(Ray Park and Amy Allen were also there.)
I suppose I'm courting a lawsuit with Lucasfilm by doing that, and I know I'm just kind of annoying them by coming up to them with a disc, but it's a real honor giving it to them, and I had a lot of fun doing it.
Next to the Nick booth was a statue company booth, which had done an exclusive statue of Luke Skywalker in his floppy hat and goggles from the deleted Biggs scenes. Two guys were looking at it.
GUY 1: I don't remember seeing Luke wearing that in the film.
GUY 2: No, but I think this guy here is about to show us.
Yes indeed. I gave them a free copy of Deleted Magic, saying to check out the Biggs Darklighter scenes. My good deed of the day.
I did a lot of that. I gave out free rare Python DVDs to Python fans - people dressed up as Tim the Enchanter, that kind of thing. Gave out a bunch of Deleted Magics, Classic Editions, all that.
I gave out copies of my own films to any random person who wanted one, just to kind of get them out there and get a bit of feedback, if anyone cares. Hm.
Was a good Con. The King Kong panel was great - they showed a clip from the film which was better in a couple minutes than most anything else I've seen this year. Then Tenacious D came on and blew the doors off the place. Good stuff.
Best part was running into a very cool group of people who were making a documentary about Star Wars fans - I hear them talking behind me about The Phantom Edit and Deleted Magic, so I turn around and say, hey, I did Deleted Magic. They didn't believe me at first, but were very happy because they'd been trying to get hold of me for their documentary! We talked for a long time, though it was odd that they were filming me without me realizing it at times! We hung out and had drinks and an expensive meal. He directs cutscenes for videogames, and she, he and he work at Ant Farm editing trailers - worked on Lord of the Rings and Kong and had stories to tell about Peter Jackson, going to the set in New Zealand .... I ranted about Star Wars endlessly, but hopefully they'll forgive me for that. Gave 'em a copy of the D.M. I sense we'll run into each other again. =)
(longer babble about the Con at my site, ffrevolution.com)