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// March 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
Here’s another reason to come to our “Grand Evening with Gruppo Rubato” fundraiser on Wednesday, March 31: an exclusive, first-time ever screening of the complete Airport Security short film we shot back in January!
// May 28th, 2007 // No Comments » // Blog, Kris's Soapbox
The Ottawa Fringe Festival had its media launch this afternoon, and since everyone and their dog likes to use video to promote their show these days, we thought we should have a video. Videos are shiny and pretty, and I want one. We can’t manage anything quite as wild as the LoungeZilla promo video, but we can try.
Hoping that the festival was hungry for two-minute clips from local shows, and under the gun of a deadline, we rushed through production of a “prologue” script we wrote a few months ago. We had some issues with the quality of the video footage, but on the whole it turned out okay. Our concern, though, is that the result is a bit too dramatic… and we are, after all, producing a comedy. It’s a dark comedy, true, and it has a meaty center… but it’s a comedy. The current promo video, unfortunately, gives no indication of that. As a result, we’ve made some revisions that bump up the humour quotient a bit, and we are going to do some re-shooting later this week. Eventually, this here blog posting may be the only place to see the original. Ooo.
If you’re reading this, you may be wondering if there are any hints in the video about what you’ll see on-stage. The answer is an absolute yes. I’m just not going to spoon-feed you, because I’m a dick. At least, that’s what Patrick and my mother both tell me.
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