Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: First Annual Film-Tech awards!!!

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Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 11-15-2002, 02:01 AM:

Hey all. Dave here.

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

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-15-2002, 04:59 AM:

A couple of minor things.

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.

Second, I will send a Film-Tech T shirt to the winner, and all losers will get a genuine email they can print.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 11-15-2002, 11:36 AM:

Wait, I am confused.

See? ---->

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

quote:
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.

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???

=TMP=

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 11-15-2002, 11:48 AM:

Most Actual Paid Admissions By A Film-Techer Remember, it's people like me who keep all of you working.

Most Non-Technical Posts to Film-Tech

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

Most Trashed Image/Policy Trailer In Active Use

Worst-Looking Film Ad For A Non-Film Product

Best/Worst Trailers of the Year

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 11-15-2002, 02:29 PM:

Farthest distance travelled specifically to see a movie for free, despite the fact that it would have cost less to just pay full price locally.

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 11-15-2002, 02:39 PM:

I traveled 7,000 miles to see Cinerama. I live in Santa Rosa, CA and traveled to Bradford England in order to see Cinerama only to discover that we were doing Cinerama at the Telluride Film Festival in a theatre 2 blocks from my theatre and I didn't have to pay.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-15-2002, 02:43 PM:

How about: Worst shipping reel in use during 2002 (to be judged by photographs of finalists, as nominated by Brad)?

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).

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 11-15-2002, 03:12 PM:

see this is good stuff.

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.

dave

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 11-15-2002, 03:20 PM:

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

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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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 11-15-2002, 05:21 PM:

But that would be sexist.
In the interests of P.C. we have to include females into that catagory.

Most P.C. film anyone?

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-15-2002, 06:32 PM:

And this will be presented at the Film-Tech Drink night ....right? Dave, will this mean you will actually be at Showest?
Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 11-16-2002, 12:30 AM:

That's right children!!! I will be there front and center!!!

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!

Dave

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 11-16-2002, 12:35 AM:

Worst injury received while doing film work...

Most injuries received while doing film work...

You HAVE to brag about the injuries!

Most Chipper!!! J/K

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 11-16-2002, 12:42 AM:

Let me know what the final categories are. I'll throw together a script to 'automate' voting (because we all know digital is better). It'll save you going through hundreds of ballots.

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 11-16-2002, 01:47 PM:

<<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>>

Those wenches better be pretty buxom for the task; otherwise they'll need the help of winches!

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 11-16-2002, 02:02 PM:

Dave's wenches

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 11-16-2002, 02:37 PM:

Yea, comely lassies indeed!

Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 11-16-2002, 02:59 PM:

How about biggest enemy of film? I nominate George Lucas!!!

Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 11-16-2002, 07:04 PM:

How about a movie with more reels than it needs. Example a movie that has 3 half empety reels.

Most helpful thread.

Least helpful thread.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 11-16-2002, 07:22 PM:

I still have no idea how these awards work, but here's my shot at some categories

Worst DVD/Home Video release promotion:
Nominees:
Star Wars Episode 2 - "Yo da Man!"
Bad Company - "The countdown begins to the release of the DVD..." [no one will buy]

Film that you would rather not screen despite the crowds it brings in:
Jackass
8 Mile
Spider-Man
Star Wars Episode 2

"What the hell were they thinking?" When they released:
Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Master of Disguise
Bad Company
Swept Away
Pokemon 4 Ever

=TMP=

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-16-2002, 09:13 PM:

Another nominee for "what the hell were they thinking": Country Bears. (I would also nominate Glitter, but I think that was last year.)

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 11-18-2002, 02:19 AM:

Yes Gerard that is WINCHES I refer to. However I love to call them the wenches, as they sometimes behave that way. Back when we did seven brides and we had an entire rooftoop in the rafters the WENCH wouldnt slow down and we just about took some heads off. But thats nothing like the time when we lost a house side and it came down on the cast during a prayer by one of the directors and it whapped her upside the head. At that moment she was praying for no injuries or incedents.

Lets try to keep the nominations just to categories and not actual movie titles on this thread. At least TRY anyway. I know, sometimes its just that hard not to.

Dave